{"id":40178,"date":"2019-12-07T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T00:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40178"},"modified":"2019-12-07T00:00:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T00:00:05","slug":"first-responders-prove-their-heroism-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40178","title":{"rendered":"First responders prove their heroism &#8230; again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=gunviolence%20%23Pensacolashooting%20%23USNavy%20%23NavalAirStation&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pensacola-57.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40179\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pensacola-57-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pensacola-57-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pensacola-57-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pensacola-57.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A shooter opened fire today at a U.S. Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>He killed three people, injured about a dozen others. Then an Escambia County sheriff&#8217;s deputy shot the gunman to death.<\/p>\n<p>I want to spend a brief moment saluting the first responders who saved a lot of lives today when the shooting erupted. This was the second such incident at a Navy base; the other one occurred at Pearl Harbor\/Hickam Joint Base in Honolulu, where two individuals died before the shooter killed himself.<\/p>\n<p>The latest lunatic was a Saudi Air Force student on station at NAS Pensacola. I do hope the FBI, the Navy and local authorities can obtain all the information they need from the Saudi Arabia government about this moron. Let&#8217;s remember that we&#8217;re dealing with a government that sanctioned the murder of a Washington Post columnist in Istanbul. This incident requires a full Saudi effort to get to the bottom of it.<\/p>\n<p>As for the first responders, they hurried to the source of commotion. That the sheriff&#8217;s deputy was able to &#8212; in that euphemistic term &#8212; <em>&#8220;neutralize&#8221;<\/em> the shooter so quickly speaks to the professionalism that marks so many of our first responders.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities have identified the shooter. You won&#8217;t see his name on this blog. I choose to remain silent on the identities of the fools who commit these heinous acts.<\/p>\n<p>I want to speak instead of the heroes who answered the call when peril erupted once again. I also want to express once again how my heart is broken at the news of this violent spasm.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=gunviolence%20%23Pensacolashooting%20%23USNavy%20%23NavalAirStation&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shooter opened fire today at a U.S. Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla. He killed three people, injured about a dozen others. Then an Escambia County sheriff&#8217;s deputy shot the gunman to death. I want to spend a brief moment saluting the first responders who saved a lot of lives today when the shooting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40178\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First responders prove their heroism &#8230; again<\/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":[2037,9081,9080,5049],"class_list":["post-40178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-news","tag-gun-violence","tag-naval-air-station","tag-pensacola-shooting","tag-us-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40178","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=40178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40180,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40178\/revisions\/40180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}