{"id":2486,"date":"2013-04-17T10:46:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T15:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=2486"},"modified":"2013-04-17T10:46:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T15:46:45","slug":"well-i-dont-see-this-often","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=2486","title":{"rendered":"Well, I don&#8217;t see this often"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted an article in the Tennessean entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/article\/20130417\/NEWS01\/304170094\/2066\/NEWS03\" target=\"_blank\">Neighborhood meeting on youth violence remembers &#8216;ones we have already lost&#8217;<\/a> and thought it was going to be another of their anti-gun pieces.\u00a0 Surprisingly, other than using the phrase &#8220;gun violence&#8221; once, the piece makes no mention of anything other than the core issue: violence, and gang violence at that (&#8220;black-on-black youth murders&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>The solution that they&#8217;re pushing in the article is for &#8220;interventionist counselors&#8221; in the schools that specialize in gang mediation.\u00a0 If I recall correctly, LA has been trying the same thing for a number of years and found that approach to be the most successful at curbing gang violence (not eliminating, mind you).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to see our local paper actually talk about trying to solve the actual problem instead of just removing a tool used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted an article in the Tennessean entitled Neighborhood meeting on youth violence remembers &#8216;ones we have already lost&#8217; and thought it was going to be another of their anti-gun pieces.\u00a0 Surprisingly, other than using the phrase &#8220;gun violence&#8221; once, the piece makes no mention of anything other than the core issue: violence, and gang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}