{"id":2939,"date":"2012-09-28T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T11:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/09\/28\/a-question-to-ponder\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:19:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:19:39","slug":"a-question-to-ponder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2939","title":{"rendered":"A Question To Ponder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15105,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.prweb.com\\\/releases\\\/BradyCampaign\\\/BradyCenter\\\/prweb9950863.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.prweb.com\\\/releases\\\/BradyCampaign\\\/BradyCenter\\\/prweb9950863.htm&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15106,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=kq1PbgeBoQ4&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15107,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=0xU7Lhd7Wwo&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence (sic) is holding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/BradyCampaign\/BradyCenter\/prweb9950863.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their gala event in New York City <\/a>on Thursday, October 4th. They plan to honor B-list actors who&#8217;ve made public service announcements for them as well as highlight &#8220;men and women whose lives have been forever altered by gun violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Included in the list of those &#8220;whose lives have been forever altered&#8221; was this:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i><b>Aurora theater shooting victims Ethan Rodriguez-Torrent (who escaped<br \/>\nwithout physical injury)<\/b> and his friend Stephen Barton (who was shot in<br \/>\nthe neck and shoulders), who had stopped in Denver to visit a friend<br \/>\nduring their cross-country cycling trip;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How is Ethan Rodriguez-Torrent a &#8220;theater shooting victim&#8221; if he had no physical injuries? Is the Brady Center claiming the Mr. Rodriguez-Torrent has PTSD or other mental disorders other than hoplophobia, that is? Was just being in the theater enough to be able to claim victimhood?<\/p>\n<p>I can understand calling the friend a victim as he was actually shot by the deranged student but I&#8217;m having a hard time accepting that Mr. Rodriguez-Torrent is a victim. By extension, if you&#8217;ve ever witnessed a hostile encounter, in person or on TV, then you are a shooting victim. I&#8217;ve watched the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kq1PbgeBoQ4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zapruder film<\/a> of JFK being assassinated in Dallas as well as have vague memories of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0xU7Lhd7Wwo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watching Jack Ruby kill Lee Harvey Oswald<\/a> on TV so does that make me a shooting victim?<\/p>\n<p>By the dumbed-down standards of the Brady Center, I guess it does. I&#8217;m a victim, you&#8217;re a victim, we&#8217;re all victims now. Victim of what I&#8217;m still not sure but victims nonetheless.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence (sic) is holding their gala event in New York City on Thursday,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[313,3148],"class_list":["post-2939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brady-center","tag-victimhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8392,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions\/8392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}