{"id":66803,"date":"2016-07-12T10:18:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T14:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66803"},"modified":"2016-07-12T10:19:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T14:19:15","slug":"wil-weaton-blames-nra-for-latest-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66803","title":{"rendered":"Wil Weaton blames NRA for latest shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/07\/11\/us\/michigan-courthouse-shooting\/\">in St. Joseph, Michigan<\/a>, a criminal in the Berrien County Courthouse got his grubby paws on a deputy&#8217;s sidearm and killed 2 bailiffs, Joseph Zangaro, 61, and Ron Kienzle, 60, and injured James Atterbury, 41, before he was gunned down by officers. Actor, Wil Wheaton immediately sent a Tweet out to his fans; \u201cWelcome to America. It has been 0 days since our last mass shooting. #F**ktheNRA,\u201d according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/jul\/11\/wil-wheaton-actor-blames-berrien-county-courthouse\/\">Washington Times<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome to America. It has been 0 days since our last mass shooting. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FucktheNRA?src=hash\">#FucktheNRA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b0U7Zkkpau\">pic.twitter.com\/b0U7Zkkpau<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Wil Wheaton (@wilw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wilw\/status\/752583729067925504\">July 11, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He backed off his initial post briefly;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wilw\">@wilw<\/a> shooter grabbed a deputy&#39;s gun. So this is a rare circumstance where a mass shooting wasn&#39;t enabled by the NRA.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Wil Wheaton (@wilw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wilw\/status\/752602582242062336\">July 11, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Wheaton thinks that the NRA supports criminals disarming their law enforcement escorts. <\/p>\n<p>This demonstrates exactly what I&#8217;ve been saying for years &#8211; too many people have an emotional reaction to shootings and the internet gives them the opportunity to express their uninformed, barely literate opinions to millions instantly. That has turned the discussion on legal guns into an emotional issue rather than an intellectual discussion of facts.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d boycott Wheaton, except I&#8217;ve never seen anything he was in, except as a guest on The Kaley Cuoco Show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, in St. Joseph, Michigan, a criminal in the Berrien County Courthouse got his grubby paws &hellip; <a title=\"Wil Weaton blames NRA for latest shooting\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66803\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wil Weaton blames NRA for latest shooting<\/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":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66803","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=66803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}