{"id":193,"date":"2002-04-29T16:53:14","date_gmt":"2002-04-30T00:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=193"},"modified":"2012-02-09T13:16:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T21:16:30","slug":"nonsense-only-americans-shoot-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"nonsense, only Americans shoot people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you thought I had stopped talking about guns, here are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnandantonio.com\/InsideEuropeIberianNotes.html\"> John and Antonio <\/a> on the recent school shooting in Germany:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n And guess whose fault it is, according to psychologist Andr&eacute;s Gonz&aacute;lez Bellido in the Vanguardia? You guessed it. America&#8217;s. &ldquo;These episodes that once seemed only to occur in the US can be explained (in Europe), says this psychologist, because European society is becoming more similar to American society. &lsquo;Loneliness, individual frustration, and greater and greater social inequalities lead to extreme situations,&rsquo; he adds.&rdquo; These people took <i>Death of a Salesman<\/i> much too seriously. Interestingly enough, the exact same sort of commentary was made after 16 were killed in Hungerford, England, in 1987, after 14 were killed in Luxiol, France, in 1989, after 17 were killed in Dunblane, Scotland, in 1996, after 14 were killed in Zug, Switzerland, in 2001, and after 8 were killed just recently in Nanterre, France.\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- The notion that America exports inequality to Europe is especially -- well, special, as the Church Lady might say. --><\/p>\n<p>We are often reminded that US murder rates are the Highest in the Developed World.  This parade makes me yearn suddenly for a comparison of <em>mass<\/em> murder rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you thought I had stopped talking about guns, here are John and Antonio on the recent school shooting in Germany: And guess whose fault it is, according to psychologist Andr&eacute;s Gonz&aacute;lez Bellido in the Vanguardia? You guessed it. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=193\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3027,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/3027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}