{"id":241,"date":"2011-07-16T22:46:15","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T02:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=241"},"modified":"2011-07-17T08:45:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T12:45:33","slug":"guns-dont-kill-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"Guns don’t kill people"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police in Mississippi say a woman meaning to kill a pit bull named “Cocaine” shot her husband instead.<\/p>\n

Cocaine reportedly lunged at some children and tried to attack them on Friday. Betty Walker’s husband picked the dog up as the children hustled indoors, but Betty went ahead and fired twice, hitting the dog once and her husband once in the chest.<\/p>\n

Jackson police spokeswoman Colendula Green says the death of 53-year-old Robert Walker appears to have been accidental.\u00a0 Animal control officers have taken the dog, and its owner — unlike Betty — could face charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Police in Mississippi say a woman meaning to kill a pit bull named “Cocaine” shot her husband instead. Cocaine reportedly lunged at some children and tried to attack them on Friday. Betty Walker’s husband picked the dog up as the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}