{"id":3925,"date":"2023-02-17T08:52:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T13:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3925"},"modified":"2023-02-17T08:52:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T13:52:33","slug":"its-about-the-children-or-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3925","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s About the Children. Or Is It?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/JPA381.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"408\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/JPA381.jpg\" alt=\"It's About the Children. Or Is It?\" class=\"wp-image-3926\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/JPA381.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/JPA381-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I just couldn&#8217;t figure out a way to properly express my deep, deep sadness with the mass shooting on the Michigan State University campus this week. It&#8217;s simply too much to distill. Also, honestly, it was yet another mass shooting in the USA \u2014 we&#8217;ve gotten to the point where we reflexively rank these things. (Only three dead? Not so bad.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We. Are. Broken. If you don&#8217;t think so, then you should know that, as I write this, there have already been five more mass shooting since Monday.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunviolencearchive.org\/reports\/mass-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Statistically<\/a>, there will be at least a couple more before you read this. I just didn&#8217;t feel like drawing a tearful Sparty was going to help anybody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, I wanted to alert you to the fact that gun violence (of which mass shootings are only a small part) is now the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/global-health-policy\/issue-brief\/child-and-teen-firearm-mortality-in-the-u-s-and-peer-countries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">number one cause of death for those 19-years-old and younger<\/a>&nbsp;in the United States. And even though only one of the three beautiful young people who died Monday was technically in that category, close enough. Too frickin&#8217; close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We. Are. Broken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just couldn&#8217;t figure out a way to properly express my deep, deep sadness with the mass shooting on the Michigan State University campus this week. It&#8217;s simply too much to distill. Also, honestly, it was yet another mass shooting in the USA \u2014 we&#8217;ve gotten to the point where we reflexively rank these things. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3927,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions\/3927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}