{"id":1526,"date":"2012-07-18T11:46:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T16:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2012-07-18T11:46:26","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T16:46:26","slug":"why-would-you-ever-need-a-gun-in-a-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=1526","title":{"rendered":"Why would you ever need a gun in a bar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because you never know when <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.al.com\/spotnews\/2012\/07\/post_771.html#incart_river_default\">some jackass wants to go on a shooting rampage in hopes that police will kill him<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Note, however, that he didn&#8217;t actually wait around for the cops to show up and kill him. Nor did he try to go out in a blaze of glory when the police <del datetime=\"2012-07-18T15:16:27+00:00\">finally caught up with him<\/del> came to pick him up after he confessed to a FedEx worker<\/p>\n<p>Also, this wasn&#8217;t what I&#8217;d call a &#8220;thug bar&#8221; where you&#8217;d expect drug-related violence to break out. We see that all the time. This was a sports bar filled with college kids. That kinda kills the &#8220;just don&#8217;t go to <i>those<\/i> kind of bars&#8221; argument that our opponents kept trotting out.<\/p>\n<p>No good info on what kind of weapon the shooter used. The press is reporting it was an &#8220;assault rifle&#8221; but I&#8217;d also seen reports that paramedics claimed it had created small-caliber wounds. My guess is a Ruger 10\/22 with a 30rd mag. That would explain the high number hits, but zero fatalities.<\/p>\n<p>He also shot someone about an hour before this, and set two fires at his former place of employment.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and just in case it comes up? He was <a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/wls\/story?section=news\/national_world&#038;id=8740305\">a prohibited person<\/a>. Shocking, I know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because you never know when some jackass wants to go on a shooting rampage in hopes that police will kill him. Note, however, that he didn&#8217;t actually wait around for the cops to show up and kill him. Nor did he try to go out in a blaze of glory when the police finally caught [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns","category-officer-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}