{"id":4147,"date":"2024-06-21T10:16:38","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T14:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4147"},"modified":"2024-06-21T10:16:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T14:16:38","slug":"running-out-of-new-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4147","title":{"rendered":"Running out of New Places"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/JPA450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"394\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/JPA450.jpg\" alt=\"Running out of New Places\" class=\"wp-image-4148\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/JPA450.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/JPA450-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgemi.com\/michigan-government\/michigan-splash-pad-shooting-what-we-know-and-what-expect-next\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">latest mass shooting here in Michigan<\/a>&nbsp;(at least, the latest one that made the news) took place at a splash pad in Rochester Hills last Saturday. Nine people were injured, including two children. The shooter was later found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michigan recently has made some progress in passing legislation and implementing programs designed to reduce gun violence. They represent positive, sensible efforts toward treating the disease. Certainly not a cure-all for what has been a uniquely intractable problem for us Americans, but at least attempting to mitigate unnecessary deaths and injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, a few days later the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/06\/14\/g-s1-2929\/supreme-court-bump-stocks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.S. Supreme Court managed to again demonstrate<\/a>&nbsp;just how intractable the problem is with a tortured, hair-splitting ruling on what exactly a machine gun is, which overturned a ban on bump stocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look, the grim reaper and gun violence are in lockstep on this. They aren&#8217;t going to break up on their own. That&#8217;s our responsibility \u2014 with &#8220;our&#8221; very much including elected and appointed officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;latest mass shooting here in Michigan&nbsp;(at least, the latest one that made the news) took place at a splash pad in Rochester Hills last Saturday. Nine people were injured, including two children. The shooter was later found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Michigan recently has made some progress in passing legislation and implementing programs [&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-4147","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\/4147","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=4147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4149,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions\/4149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}