{"id":16,"date":"2003-10-01T06:48:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-01T11:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=16"},"modified":"2003-10-01T06:48:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-01T11:48:00","slug":"if-guns-are-outlawed-outlaws-will-use-crossbows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"If Guns Are Outlawed, Outlaws Will Use Crossbows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.philly.com\/mld\/inquirer\/news\/local\/6862693.htm'>This<\/a><br \/>\nhappened about 15 minutes from where I live:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Police in West Chester are looking for an assailant they believe used<br \/>\na crossbow to shoot a pedestrian from a passing SUV.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, a restaurant worker who was walking home along High<br \/>\nStreet early Sunday morning, was shot in the stomach with a 16-inch<br \/>\nhunting arrow. He was released Wednesday from the University of<br \/>\nPennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Benito Vargas told police he was at the corner of High and Barnard<br \/>\nStreets at about 1 a.m. when he saw the white SUV&#8217;s driver-side window<br \/>\nslide down, revealing the front part a crossbow just inside. Seconds<br \/>\nlater, he was lying on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This thing would be silent. You wouldn&#8217;t hear any noise,&#8221; West<br \/>\nChester Detective Thomas Yarnall said.  [&#8230;] Yarnall said the<br \/>\nshooting appeared random [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gives a whole old meaning to the phrase &#8220;looking for a quarrel&#8221;,<br \/>\nwhich in fact, originally referred to a crossbow bolt.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:(Well, maybe.  Some etymologists think the noun quarrel and verb quarrel have<br \/>\nseparate origins.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/enetation.co.uk\/comments.php?user=esr&amp;commentid=106505931820320870\">Blogspot comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This happened about 15 minutes from where I live: Police in West Chester are looking for an assailant they believe used a crossbow to shoot a pedestrian from a passing SUV. The victim, a restaurant worker who was walking home along High Street early Sunday morning, was shot in the stomach with a 16-inch hunting&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=16\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If Guns Are Outlawed, Outlaws Will Use Crossbows<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firearms","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}