{"id":24799,"date":"2013-09-19T23:25:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T23:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/09\/19\/patrickat-the-problem-with-saying-after-a-mass\/"},"modified":"2013-09-19T23:25:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T23:25:34","slug":"patrickat-the-problem-with-saying-after-a-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/09\/19\/patrickat-the-problem-with-saying-after-a-mass\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/patrickat.tumblr.com\/post\/61706876284\/the-problem-with-saying-after-a-mass-shooting-that\">patrickat<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The problem with saying after a mass shooting that it\u2019s \u201ctoo soon\u201d to talk about gun control is really with the frequency of mass shootings.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s always too soon to talk about \/gun control\/ after a mass shooting because \/gun control\/ has little or nothing to do with the frequency of mass shootings. Let&#8217;s talk about mental health assistance instead, and how much easier it is to get a gun legally \/after\/ all the gun control hoops than it is to get consistent, worthwhile, inexpensive mental health care.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing how mass shootings never seem to decrease in frequency, isn&#8217;t it? No matter how much &#8216;gun control&#8217; there is.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that legally I probably can&#8217;t own a gun? Because I spent three days involuntarily incarcerated in a mental health institution on suicide watch. Three years ago. I&#8217;ve been in treatment, one way and another, for mental health issues of various sorts, for over twenty years.<\/p>\n<p>Whom would you rather have a gun? Me, or someone who \/can&#8217;t\/ get treated for their issues? Who is more likely to have one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>patrickat: The problem with saying after a mass shooting that it\u2019s \u201ctoo soon\u201d to talk about gun control is really with the frequency of mass shootings. It&#8217;s always too soon to talk about \/gun control\/ after a mass shooting because \/gun control\/ has little or nothing to do with the frequency of mass shootings. Let&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/09\/19\/patrickat-the-problem-with-saying-after-a-mass\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3025,3026,3027,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24799"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}