{"id":31890,"date":"2012-09-11T08:54:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T12:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31890"},"modified":"2012-09-11T08:55:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T12:55:02","slug":"why-did-the-aurora-shooter-choose-the-cinemark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31890","title":{"rendered":"Why Did the Aurora Shooter Choose the Cinemark?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m certain everyone remembers James Holmes, the (alleged) Aurora theater mass-murderer.<\/p>\n<p>John Lott <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2012\/09\/10\/did-colorado-shooter-single-out-cinemark-theater\/\">has an interesting take<\/a> on just why Holmes may have chosen the Cinemark Theater as his venue for murder. It wasn\u2019t the closest to his house, or the largest one showing \u201cThe Dark Knight Rises\u201d that evening.\u00a0 So why the Cinemark?<\/p>\n<p>Turns out that the Cinemark was the only theater nearby that \u2013 by business policy \u2013 banned patrons from bringing licensed concealed firearms into the theater.<\/p>\n<p>The article is short, but is worth a read. Lott\u2019s argument that gun-free zones are counterproductive and foolish is rather persuasive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m certain everyone remembers James Holmes, the (alleged) Aurora theater mass-murderer. John Lott has an interesting &hellip; <a title=\"Why Did the Aurora Shooter Choose the Cinemark?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31890\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Did the Aurora Shooter Choose the Cinemark?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31890","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}