{"id":1725,"date":"2004-11-22T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-22T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2018-07-30T15:34:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T20:34:34","slug":"1725","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/22\/1725\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank Goodness, a Mass Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Wisconsin, a nutbar in the woods, instead of hunting deer, shot five other hunters in whose tree stand he was trespassing.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/state\/nov04\/277439.asp\" target=\"_new\">Story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Uh oh, and wouldn&#8217;t you know it, he had an <i>assault rifle<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Five deer hunters were shot to death and three were wounded Sunday by a man who was hunting from someone else&#8217;s tree stand in northern Wisconsin, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Chai Soua Vang, 36, of St. Paul, Minn., was arrested by a Department of Natural Resources warden just before dark.<\/p>\n<p>The bizarre attack happened on private land in this Sawyer County town about noon on the second day of the gun deer season, a time when hundreds of thousands of deer hunters are in the woods throughout Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>Sawyer County Chief Deputy Tim Zeigle said Chai Soua Vang, 36, of St. Paul, Minn., was arrested by a Department of Natural Resources warden just before dark about 4 p.m. on a road about one mile from the scene, just across the Sawyer County border in Rusk County.<\/p>\n<p><b>Vang was armed with an SKS semiautomatic assault rifle<\/b>, a weapon that&#8217;s similar to a 30.06 but seldom used by deer hunters, Zeigle said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let the call for a renewed ban begin!  Oh, wait, somewhere out there it already has.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I think there&#8217;s more to the story&#8211;like the relationship between the shooter and the dead and wounded&#8211;that will not be included in follow-up stories after the nationwide gun banning crowd crows about the dangers of guns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Wisconsin, a nutbar in the woods, instead of hunting deer, shot five other hunters in whose tree stand he was trespassing. Story. Uh oh, and wouldn&#8217;t you know it, he had an assault rifle: Five deer hunters were shot to death and three were wounded Sunday by a man who was hunting from someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20840,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions\/20840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}