{"id":18183,"date":"2012-12-16T09:34:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T14:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=18183"},"modified":"2012-12-16T09:34:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T14:34:53","slug":"reactions-to-the-sandy-hook-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/12\/16\/reactions-to-the-sandy-hook-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Reactions to the Sandy Hook tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>Reason<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2012\/12\/15\/4-archetypally-awful-reactions-to-sandy\/singlepage\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Gillespie<\/a> rounds up some of the worst reactions to the terrible event in Sandy Hook:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Horrific events such as the mass shooting at Newtown, Connecticut&#8217;s Sandy Hook Elementary School are terrible enough in showcasing the evil that men do.<\/p>\n<p>But they also regularly bring out the worst in observers, commentators, and pundits who will never let a lack of knowledge or expertise stand in the way of making grand pronouncements.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a short tour of four of the least-helpful reactions to an attack that slaughtered more than two dozen Americans &mdash; most of them kids 10 years and younger. They come courtesy of a former presidential candidate (Mike Huckabee), an international media mogul (Rupert Murdoch), an Oscar-winning filmmaker (Michael Moore), and a famous crusading journalist (Geraldo Rivera).<\/p>\n<p>Following that is a discussion of the reality of gun violence in America and what might actually address some of the issues in play.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Reason, Nick Gillespie rounds up some of the worst reactions to the terrible event in Sandy Hook: Horrific events such as the mass shooting at Newtown, Connecticut&#8217;s Sandy Hook Elementary School are terrible enough in showcasing the evil that men do. But they also regularly bring out the worst in observers, commentators, and pundits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[28,13],"tags":[374,343,49,101],"class_list":["post-18183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-usa","tag-children","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-guns","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4Jh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18185,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18183\/revisions\/18185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}