{"id":47588,"date":"2021-04-16T22:25:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T22:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47588"},"modified":"2021-04-16T22:25:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T22:25:36","slug":"violence-must-end-do-ya-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47588","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Violence must end&#8217; &#8230; do ya think?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gunviolence.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38284\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gunviolence-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gunviolence-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gunviolence-768x555.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gunviolence.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By John Kanelis<\/strong> \/ <a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris spoke for millions of us.<\/p>\n<p>As The Hill reported: <em>&#8220;Yet again we have families in our country that are grieving the loss of their family members because of gun violence,&#8221; Harris told reporters as she greeted Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. &#8220;There is no question that this violence must end and we are thinking of the families that lost their loved ones.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Eight people died in a massacre at the FedEx distribution center in Indianapolis. The shooter then killed himself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/548666-harris-on-indianapolis-shooting-this-violence-must-end\">Harris on Indianapolis shooting: &#8216;This violence must end&#8217; | TheHill<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t identify the lunatic on this blog. I choose to keep his name to myself; besides, you probably already know it.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but I am running out of ways to express my outrage over this kind of violence. I am left to throw up my hands, to shake my noggin back and forth, to offer a quiet prayer for the families of those latest victims of this madness.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden has called on Congress to enact laws tightening background checks. He has issued an executive order banning &#8220;ghost guns&#8221; that have no serial numbers. He and others are imploring Congress to step up. I join them in that effort.<\/p>\n<p>My hope is giving way to a cynical belief that we are being governed by cowards. Shame on them. Shame on those among us for putting them in power.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Kanelis \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com Vice President Kamala Harris spoke for millions of us. As The Hill reported: &#8220;Yet again we have families in our country that are grieving the loss of their family members because of gun violence,&#8221; Harris told reporters as she greeted Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. &#8220;There is no question that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47588\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Violence must end&#8217; &#8230; do ya think?<\/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":[13],"tags":[2037,8357],"class_list":["post-47588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-gun-violence","tag-kamala-harris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47588","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=47588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47589,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47588\/revisions\/47589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}