{"id":102319,"date":"2018-02-21T00:06:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T07:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=102319"},"modified":"2018-02-19T11:21:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T18:21:00","slug":"gun-education-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2018\/02\/gun-education-important.html","title":{"rendered":"Gun Education is *so* important"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/iframe><\/p>\nFun fact: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2018\/02\/16\/us\/ap-us-school-shooting-jrotc-nra.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nikolas Cruz got that all-important gun training that prevents shooting from his NRA-funded high school rifle club.<\/a><\/p>\nOther fun fact: His sweet MAGA hat hid a brain full of racism and anti-semitism, which he trained at Jewish targets in particular at his school.<\/p>\nOther fun fact: The NRA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=nra+philando+castile&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS776US776&oq=NRA+Philando&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l3.9256j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">kept mum about Philando Castile\u2019s murder<\/a> because they knew it would upset their base of whites they have trained to fear blacks with guns, many of whom were passionately supportive of the cop who murdered him and of the verdict exonerating the cop. And that is because\u2026<\/p>\nOther fun fact: <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/112322\/gun-control-racist\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The NRA has a long history of fomenting fear of the darkskins among their overwhelmingly white membership and suppressing gun rights for them.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fun fact: Nikolas Cruz got that all-important gun training that prevents shooting from his NRA-funded high school rifle club. Other fun fact: His sweet MAGA hat hid a brain full of racism and anti-semitism, which he trained at Jewish targets in particular at his school. Other fun fact: The NRA kept mum about Philando Castile\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[594],"class_list":["post-102319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gun-violence-is-a-prolife-issue-too"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Gun Education is *so* important<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Fun fact: Nikolas Cruz got that all-important gun training that prevents shooting from his NRA-funded high school rifle club. 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