{"id":6344,"date":"2017-10-03T10:01:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T17:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=6344"},"modified":"2017-10-03T10:01:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T17:01:15","slug":"no-way-prevent-says-nation-regularly-happens-theonion-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/10\/03\/no-way-prevent-says-nation-regularly-happens-theonion-com\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018NO WAY TO PREVENT THIS,\u2019 SAYS ONLY NATION WHERE THIS REGULARLY HAPPENS (THEONION.COM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image\" data-type=\"image\" data-image-id=\"58732\" data-rendered=\"true\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images2.onionstatic.com\/onion\/5873\/2\/16x9\/1200.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"detail-share\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"content-main-body\">\n<div class=\"content-text\">\n<p>October 2, 2017<\/p>\n<p>LAS VEGAS\u2014In the hours following a violent rampage in Las Vegas in which a lone attacker killed more than 50 individuals and seriously injured 400 others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Monday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. \u201cThis was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there\u2019s nothing anyone can do to stop them,\u201d said Iowa resident Kyle Rimmels, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world\u2019s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations. \u201cIt\u2019s a shame, but what can we do? There really wasn\u2019t anything that was going to keep these individuals from snapping and killing a lot of people if that\u2019s what they really wanted.\u201d At press time, residents of the only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past eight years were referring to themselves and their situation as \u201chelpless.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 2, 2017 LAS VEGAS\u2014In the hours following a violent rampage in Las Vegas in which a lone attacker killed more than 50 individuals and seriously injured 400 others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Monday that there was no&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/10\/03\/no-way-prevent-says-nation-regularly-happens-theonion-com\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6345,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344\/revisions\/6345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}