{"id":28397,"date":"2012-01-20T15:34:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T19:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28397"},"modified":"2012-01-20T15:34:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T19:34:57","slug":"vietnam-vet-randomly-attacked-in-philly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28397","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam Vet randomly attacked in Philly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They probably didn&#8217;t know he was a Vietnam veteran, but they knew he didn&#8217;t have both of his eyes. <a href=\"http:\/\/philadelphia.cbslocal.com\/2012\/01\/19\/vietnam-vet-randomly-attacked-by-teens-on-olney-street\/\">CBS Philly<\/a> link;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kzUOMSZfju4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThese animals are specializing on our elderly people out here and a gentleman who served our country,\u201d Lt. George McClay said.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, 64-year-old Edward Schaefer was walking to meet his wife at the bus stop when he was approached from behind by six males.<\/p>\n<p>McClay said one of the suspects began the violent attack and the others joined in on the random beating.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, if it makes you Vietnam Veterans feel better, hearing you called elderly makes me feel old, too. For those of you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pafoa.org\/law\">in Philly<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Pennsylvania a License To Carry Firearms is only required to conceal a firearm, or to carry a firearm in a motor vehicle. The law is silent on the act of openly carrying a firearm while not in a vehicle making it de-facto legal. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pennsylvania&#8217;s Uniform Firearms Act provides a pre-emption statute which prevents anyone other than the state legislature from regulating the carry of firearms among other things. At one point in time Philadelphia had attempted to ignore this, but it has long been resolved. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m just sayin&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Old Trooper for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They probably didn&#8217;t know he was a Vietnam veteran, but they knew he didn&#8217;t have both &hellip; <a title=\"Vietnam Vet randomly attacked in Philly\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28397\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vietnam Vet randomly attacked in Philly<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}