{"id":56082,"date":"2023-10-26T18:51:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T18:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56082"},"modified":"2023-10-26T18:51:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T18:51:44","slug":"another-tragedy-unfolds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56082","title":{"rendered":"Another tragedy unfolds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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You won’t read “thoughts and prayers” for the loved ones of the latest mass shooting coming from this blogger.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the expression almost has become as much a cliche as “sorry for your loss ” and “at the end of the day.”<\/p>\n

No, instead I am going to offer my expression of utter disgust that even after the moron opened fire in Lewiston, Maine — killing at least 20 people — we likely still won’t get any legislation that seeks to end this kind of senseless slaughter.<\/p>\n

Barack Obama once declared that “the worst day of my presidency” was when he learned of the mass killings of those second-graders and their teachers in Newtown, Conn. He pushed Congress to act, imploring them to act in the cause of preventing other such massacres.<\/p>\n

It didn’t work. Congress did nothing but offer “thoughts and prayers.” Uvalde came along and there have been many others since the Sandy Hook tragedy of 2012.<\/p>\n

Now this.<\/p>\n

We are represented in Congress by cowards.<\/p>\n\n

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You won’t read “thoughts and prayers” for the loved ones of the latest mass shooting coming from this blogger. Indeed, the expression almost has become as much a cliche as “sorry for your loss ” and “at the end of the day.” No, instead I am going to offer my expression of utter disgust that … Continue reading Another tragedy unfolds<\/span> →<\/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":[1],"tags":[2037,10287],"class_list":["post-56082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gun-violence","tag-lewiston-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56082","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=56082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56083,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56082\/revisions\/56083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}