{"id":3188,"date":"2015-12-06T22:53:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T05:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=3188"},"modified":"2015-12-06T22:53:12","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T05:53:12","slug":"the-end-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=3188","title":{"rendered":"THE END GAME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Bernardino mass shooting will not be the last terrorist attack.\u00a0 Screaming for gun control isn&#8217;t going to solve the problem.\u00a0 Neither will it help to prosecute anyone who dares insult Muslims. There are real terrorists out there and we will all hear from them sooner rather than later. \u00a0President Obama admitted that this was an act of terrorism. That, at least, is a start.<\/p>\n<p>There are four stages to travel when things go wrong.\u00a0 Stage one is denial. \u00a0Stage two is anger. Stage three is depression. \u00a0Stage four is acceptance. \u00a0It is only when we reach the level of acceptance that we can hope to find a solution.<\/p>\n<p>We have already started to exit stage one, denial. That is not everything, but it is definitely something. \u00a0Soon denial will no longer be an option.\u00a0 That is when we move to stage two.<\/p>\n<p>I will quote Winston Churchill on this:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the\u00a0end of the beginning.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Bernardino mass shooting will not be the last terrorist attack.\u00a0 Screaming for gun control isn&#8217;t going to solve the problem.\u00a0 Neither will it help to prosecute anyone who dares insult Muslims. 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