{"id":4422,"date":"2007-04-17T20:41:38","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T03:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4422"},"modified":"2007-04-18T16:49:36","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T23:49:36","slug":"why-be-discouraged-by-the-vtech-shootings-it-was-just-one-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4422","title":{"rendered":"Why Be Discouraged by the VTech Shootings? It Was Just One Incident&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apropos of <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4419\">our earlier post today<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Not sure why everyone is so upset about the VTech shootings. After all, many parts of America are stable now. But, of course, what we see on television is this one shooting and everybody gets discouraged.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not alone in this school of thought, of course&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/02\/26\/laura-one-bombing-day\/\">Laura Bush, Feb. 26, 2007<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">&#8220;[M]any parts of Iraq are stable now. But, of course, what we see on television is the one bombing a day &#8211; this discourages everybody.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>BTW, Laura&#8217;s numbers may be somewhat off. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/iraqindex\">Brookings Institute&#8217;s latest data<\/a>, as of Nov. 2006, puts the number of insurgent and militia attacks at 185 a day, instead of just one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/iraqindex\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/IraqWar_InsurgentAttacks_BrookingsInstitute_1106.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Still, turn that frown upside-down, Negative Nellies!<\/p>\n<p>(<i><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/02\/26\/laura-one-bombing-day\/\">Hat-tip Think Progress.<\/a><\/i>)<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/18162972\">85 killed or found dead in Iraq on Tuesday&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<b>UPDATE 4\/18\/07:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4426\">233 killed of found dead in Iraq on Wednesday&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apropos of our earlier post today&#8230; Not sure why everyone is so upset about the VTech shootings. After all, many parts of America are stable now. But, of course, what we see on television is this one shooting and everybody gets discouraged. We&#8217;re not alone in this school of thought, of course&#8230; Laura Bush, Feb. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq-war"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4422"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}