{"id":38288,"date":"2019-08-04T17:41:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T17:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38288"},"modified":"2019-08-04T17:41:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T17:41:27","slug":"more-guns-wont-prevent-carnage-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38288","title":{"rendered":"More guns won&#8217;t prevent carnage &#8230; period!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=gunviolence%20%23MAGA%20%23ElPasoshooting%20%23Daytonshooting&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/El-Paso-Walmart-shooting-at-Cielo-Vista-Mall-What-we.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38273\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/El-Paso-Walmart-shooting-at-Cielo-Vista-Mall-What-we-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/El-Paso-Walmart-shooting-at-Cielo-Vista-Mall-What-we-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/El-Paso-Walmart-shooting-at-Cielo-Vista-Mall-What-we-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/El-Paso-Walmart-shooting-at-Cielo-Vista-Mall-What-we-1024x577.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am quite certain we&#8217;re going to join this debate fully in due course, but I want to inject on this blog a thought I heard this morning in the wake of the El Paso and Dayton massacres that occurred in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty people are dead, many more are injured in the wake of two senseless attacks by morons intent on doing harm.<\/p>\n<p>The debate to which I refer? It will involve whether putting more guns in people&#8217;s hands will make us a safer society. This morning I heard from a Texan, former San Antonio mayor and former housing secretary (and current candidate for president of the United States) Julian Castro, who made a most cogent observation.<\/p>\n<p>He told &#8220;This Week&#8221; host Jon Karl that the El Paso slaughter occurred in Texas. It allegedly was carried out by a Texan, who traveled from the Dallas\/Fort Worth Metroplex to El Paso to terrorize innocent victims.<\/p>\n<p>Castro noted that Texas is known <em>worldwide<\/em> as a place where its residents carry lots of guns; he noted we have <em>concealed<\/em> carry laws, <em>open<\/em> carry laws and <em>campus<\/em> carry laws in Texas. Yet the individual who opened fire in the Wal-Mart mall likely knew of the consequence of facing return fire from firearm-packing bystanders \u2026 but it didn&#8217;t deter him in the least!<\/p>\n<p>He committed his hideous, heinous and horrific act anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Do more guns make us safer? Well, let&#8217;s have that debate. I am willing to argue they do not!<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=gunviolence%20%23MAGA%20%23ElPasoshooting%20%23Daytonshooting&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am quite certain we&#8217;re going to join this debate fully in due course, but I want to inject on this blog a thought I heard this morning in the wake of the El Paso and Dayton massacres that occurred in the past 24 hours. Thirty people are dead, many more are injured in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38288\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More guns won&#8217;t prevent carnage &#8230; period!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8688],"tags":[1094,8834,8828,2037,2606,3419],"class_list":["post-38288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-news","tag-concealed-carry-2","tag-dayton-shooting","tag-el-paso-shooting","tag-gun-violence","tag-julian-castro","tag-open-carry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38289,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38288\/revisions\/38289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}