{"id":350128,"date":"2018-02-28T05:03:59","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T04:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-school-shootings-irrational-victims\/"},"modified":"2018-02-28T05:03:59","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T04:03:59","slug":"a-school-shootings-irrational-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-school-shootings-irrational-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"A School Shooting\u2019s (Ir)rational Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_100081\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100081\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-26-at-8.22.26-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"342\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Coral Springs Talk | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where a former student gunned down 15 children and two teachers has prompted some of the teenage survivors of the massacre to speak out. They have organized marches and contacted legislators, asking them to enact stricter gun control legislation. Lina Crisostomo, a student at Stoneman Douglas, argues that \u201cIf this keeps happening and nothing is done, none of us are safe.\u201d Their organizing and activism have had an effect. Florida\u2019s state legislature is considering raising the legal age to own a gun but has stopped short of banning semi-automatic weapons like those used in numerous school shootings. Jose Oliva, a Republican congressman from Miami, said, \u201cthe tremendous civic outpouring of these children\u201d is largely responsible for newly reconsidered proposals for gun legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone is happy with these developments, however. Some commentators have framed the high schoolers\u2019 efforts as the collective result of manipulation on the part of anti-gun activists. One such pundit, Ben Shapiro, writes in the National Review that these \u201clumps of mental clay\u201d have been driven to rash behavior and are essentially puppets of \u201cthe Left.\u201d He asks, incredulously, \u201cWhat, pray tell, did these students do to earn their claim to expertise?\u201d One might answer that, unlike Shapiro, they can speak to the mental and physical effects of gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>He continues his&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/02\/27\/a-school-shootings-irrational-victims\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Coral Springs Talk | CC BY 2.0 The mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where a former student gunned down 15 children and two teachers has prompted some of the teenage survivors of the massacre to speak out. They have organized marches and contacted legislators, asking them to enact stricter gun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-350128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}