{"id":339,"date":"2012-12-14T15:52:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T20:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/?p=339"},"modified":"2012-12-14T15:52:16","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T20:52:16","slug":"email-to-my-wife-about-the-newtown-ct-school-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/email-to-my-wife-about-the-newtown-ct-school-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Email to my wife about the Newtown, CT school shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbled into a rat&#8217;s nest of comments following an article about the shooting.<br \/>\nThe Liberals are angry about the lack of gun laws in this country.<br \/>\nAnd the Conservatives are angry that the Liberals want to take their guns away.<br \/>\nThey are all just mad. One Conservative poster said &#8220;Even if you pass a law banning guns, good luck coming to collect them.&#8221;<br \/>\nThat is simply an implied threat! And it proves out the whole &#8220;If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns&#8221; mantra.<br \/>\nI am angry about the whole thing, too. I am angry that we can&#8217;t come to some kind of middle ground on this issue.<br \/>\nMy head hurts from thinking about those poor kids and how not a god damn thing will change in this sick society to try and prevent this from happening again in the future.<br \/>\nWhere were those &#8220;90 million registered gun owners&#8221; while this was happening? I thought they _needed_ those guns in order to protect their families from the nut jobs out there?<\/p>\n<p>I am very sad and I just want to leave this frigged up place more and more.<\/p>\n<p>XXXOOO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbled into a rat&#8217;s nest of comments following an article about the shooting. The Liberals are angry about the lack of gun laws in this country. And the Conservatives are angry that the Liberals want to take their guns away. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/email-to-my-wife-about-the-newtown-ct-school-shooting\/\">Continue reading <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":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[94,98],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-calin","tag-jenny"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NxlE-5t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":371,"url":"https:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/something-i-wrote-in-order-to-get-out-of-having-to-write-about-it\/","url_meta":{"origin":339,"position":0},"title":"Something I wrote in order to get out of having to write about it","author":"matthannan","date":"18 January 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"An old friend of mine has come down on the right side of the whole gun control argument. 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