{"id":9073,"date":"2013-01-11T13:44:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T13:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/11\/abdication-of-authority-6\/"},"modified":"2013-01-11T13:44:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T13:44:20","slug":"abdication-of-authority-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/11\/abdication-of-authority-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdication of Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">According to a news report I just heard, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-taft-shooting-20130111,0,7256103.story\" target=\"_self\">Taft High School shooter<\/a> targeted a bully.&#0160; Rather than blame an&#0160; inanimate object, the gun, which makes no sense, one ought to blame the parents, teachers, administrators, clergy, and other so-called &#39;authorities&#39; who have abdicated their authority and allowed bullying to become a serious problem in schools.&#0160; Which is&#0160;a more likely explanation of the shooter&#39;s behavior, the availability of a gun, or his having been bullied?&#0160; If had no access to a gun, he could have enployed a knife, a slingshot, a vial of acid, you name it.&#0160; But if he had no motive to retaliate, he would not have sought any such means.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Again, the problem is not gun culture, but liberal culture.&#0160;<\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a news report I just heard, the Taft High School shooter targeted a bully.&#0160; Rather than blame an&#0160; inanimate object, the gun, which makes no sense, one ought to blame the parents, teachers, administrators, clergy, and other so-called &#39;authorities&#39; who have abdicated their authority and allowed bullying to become a serious problem in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/11\/abdication-of-authority-6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Abdication of Authority&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}