{"id":372303,"date":"2010-02-26T18:10:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T23:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011202718_tacomateachershooting.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-02-26T18:10:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T23:10:20","slug":"tacoma-teacher-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/372303","title":{"rendered":"Tacoma teacher shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Women often targeted by gun-happy misogynists<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is it any wonder that the most unstable among us, like the man who lay in ambush of a Tacoma special-education teacher [\u201cSlain teacher had been stalked by gunman,\u201d Seattletimes.com, Feb. 26], feel they can use their awesome firepower on another human being who spurns them?<\/p>\n<p>The same situation applied to an Orlando woman who formerly worked as a waitress at Hooters \u2014 in order to make ends meet. Like the special-ed teacher, she tried to get a restraining order on a man who had become dangerously obsessed with her. She wound up being shot nine times in a parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent article in The New York Times called \u201cThe Women\u2019s Crusade,\u201d authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn point out that the brutality inflicted on many women and girls may be the central issue facing the 21st century \u2014 just as slavery was to the 19th and totalitarianism was to the 20th.<\/p>\n<p>Those who own a hideous variety of military-style weapons throughout the United States are overwhelmingly male and are far too obsessed with the \u201cstopping power\u201d of their little arsenals. While most of them are law-abiding, those who become desperate \u2014 usually after women or life disappoint them \u2014 become far too much of a threat to society as a whole.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Ron Charach, Toronto, Ont.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women often targeted by gun-happy misogynists Is it any wonder that the most unstable among us, like the man who lay in ambush of a Tacoma special-education teacher [\u201cSlain teacher had been stalked by gunman,\u201d Seattletimes.com, Feb. 26], feel they can use their awesome firepower on another human being who spurns them? The same situation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}