{"id":1251,"date":"2009-11-06T12:28:45","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T20:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/11\/the_crazy_bone_in_the_countrys\/"},"modified":"2009-11-06T12:28:45","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T20:28:45","slug":"the_crazy_bone_in_the_countrys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/11\/the_crazy_bone_in_the_countrys.html","title":{"rendered":"Gun in America"},"content":{"rendered":"

The crazy bone in the country’s body is the right to bear arms<\/a>. From The New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The rampage recalled other mass shootings in the United States, including 13 killed at a center for immigrants in upstate New York last April, the deaths of 10 during a gunman’s rampage in Alabama in March, and 32 people killed at Virginia Tech, the deadliest shooting in modern American history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, is a psychiatrist. Where did he get the guns and why did he have them?<\/p>\n

Again, The NYT: <\/p>\n

“He could have just brought (them) onto the installation,” Colonel Rossi said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We know what will happen next. Any Muslim who knows Hasan, especially one who sympathized with his doubts about U.S. policy in the Middle East, will be in for a harrowing experience. All it takes is an email saying, “I hear you, brother.” Who doesn’t have doubts? We’re in the wrong. Of course the government needs to investigate. What they won’t investigate is the thing that makes carnage easy:<\/p>\n

Chris Crites<\/a> <\/p>\n

\"chriscritesgreenbig.jpg\"\"chriscritesblu.jpg\"Justin Colt Beckman<\/a>, digital collage of the artist’s face on found photograph<\/p>\n

\"justincoltbeargun.jpg\"Karen Ganz<\/a>, even in our dreams<\/p>\n

\"karenganzgun.jpg\"Speaking of carnage: today in Seattle, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Roy Lichtenstein<\/a>, Gun in America<\/i><\/p>\n

\"RoyLichtensteinGun.jpg\"Update<\/b>: From Orlando, more shootings today, here<\/a>. Easy access to guns makes the entire country a war zone. Deadly violence can pop up anywhere, in any church, business, home or on any sidewalk. And from the department of stupid headlines, from the Houston Chronicle<\/a> about the Fort Worth<\/strike> Hood shootings: Motive is Biggest Unknown<\/i>. Motive is biggest unknown? Hasan’s motives are obvious, although it would take Shakespeare to plumb their depths.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The crazy bone in the country’s body is the right to bear arms. From The New York Times: The rampage recalled other mass shootings in the United States, including 13 killed at a center for immigrants in upstate New York last April, the deaths of 10 during a gunman’s rampage in Alabama in March, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}