{"id":9933,"date":"2022-05-26T18:01:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T18:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2022\/05\/26\/better-counseling-or-better-gun-control\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:48:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:48:23","slug":"better-counseling-or-better-gun-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/better-counseling-or-better-gun-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Better counseling or better gun control?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two teachers perished, <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=2730&amp;DateTime=5%2F25%2F2022+6%3A05%3A05+PM&amp;Term=Furman&amp;PlayClip=TRUE\">FOX Carolina<\/a> reached out to longtime South Carolina educator and Furman University Education Professor Paul Thomas. He said, &#8220;W<span id=\"14\">e should absolutely be doing <\/span><span id=\"15\">better counseling, doing a better job at <\/span><span id=\"17\">identifying students who are\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"19\">angry, troubled, bullied,\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"20\">isolated. But none of that is really a <\/span><span id=\"21\">solution as long as there is this <\/span><span id=\"25\">access to guns, and children and\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"26\">adults see guns as a solution to\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"26\">a problem.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two teachers perished, FOX Carolina reached out to longtime South Carolina educator and Furman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28,6],"tags":[894,105,1454,1455],"class_list":["post-9933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-education","category-in-the-news","tag-gun-violence","tag-mental-health","tag-school-shooting","tag-uvalde"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}