{"id":69191,"date":"2016-01-25T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=69191"},"modified":"2016-01-25T11:48:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T11:48:04","slug":"trumps-plan-to-randomly-shoot-people-lacks-details-random-shooters-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/01\/trumps-plan-to-randomly-shoot-people-lacks-details-random-shooters-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Plan to Randomly Shoot People Lacks Details, Random Shooters Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/andy-borowitz-320.png\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-51101\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-51101\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/andy-borowitz-320-150x150.png\" alt=\"andy borowitz-320\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><em>24 Jan 2016 <\/em>\u2014 One day after Donald Trump claimed that he could shoot people on New York\u2019s Fifth Avenue and not lose support, a leading member of the random-shooting community complained that the billionaire\u2019s random-shooting plan lacks specifics.<\/p>\n<p>Harland Dorrinson, who heads the largest association of random shooters in the nation, said that Trump\u2019s Fifth Avenue plan \u201clacked many of the key ingredients necessary for a credible random shooting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no weapons cache, no twisted manifesto to be found later by authorities,\u201d Dorrinson said. \u201cTo anyone in the random-shooting world, Trump\u2019s plan fails on so many levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, he said, Trump has not put in the many years of solitary seething that most random shooters deem mandatory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore you do a random shooting, you\u2019re supposed to be quiet and keep to yourself,\u201d he said. \u201cTrump is always shouting at thousands of people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dorrinson added that although many random shooters have been in the Trump camp thus far, the candidate\u2019s vague random-shooting \u201cplan\u201d is now giving them pause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump made it sound like a random shooting is just the easiest thing in the world,\u201d he said. \u201cAt the end of the day, random shooters find that hurtful.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_69192\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Borowitz-Donald-Trump-690.jpg\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-69192\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69192\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69192\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Borowitz-Donald-Trump-690.jpg\" alt=\"Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY AL DRAGO \/ CQ ROLL CALL VIA GETTY\" width=\"690\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Borowitz-Donald-Trump-690.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Borowitz-Donald-Trump-690-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-69192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY AL DRAGO \/ CQ ROLL CALL VIA GETTY<\/p><\/div>\n<p>_________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Andy Borowitz is a <\/em>New York Times<em> best-selling author and a comedian who has written for <\/em>The New Yorker<em> since 1998. In 2001, he created the Borowitz Report, a satirical news column that has millions of readers around the world, for which he won the first-ever <\/em>National Press Club<em> award for humor. The Borowitz Report was acquired by <\/em>The New Yorker<em> in 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trumps-plan-to-randomly-shoot-people-lacks-details-random-shooters-say?mbid=nl_160124_Borowitz&amp;CNDID=31231765&amp;spMailingID=8466598&amp;spUserID=MTA5MjQwNzQyNjgyS0&amp;spJobID=842647109&amp;spReportId=ODQyNjQ3MTA5S0\" >Go to Original \u2013 newyorker.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo anyone in the random-shooting world, Trump&#8217;s plan fails on so many levels,\u201d a leader of the nation\u2019s random shooters commented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}