{"id":71943,"date":"2017-05-09T08:30:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T12:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71943"},"modified":"2017-05-09T07:55:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T11:55:02","slug":"blogger-bob-owens-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71943","title":{"rendered":"Blogger Bob Owens passes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bob Owens was known as Confederate Yankee when we started blogging. He was very supportive of the work we did here. Lately, he retooled his internet presence with a new Second Amendment blog “Bearing Arms<\/a>“. He linked to much of our work in regard to the second amendment and military issues. We have collaborated many times.<\/p>\n

Today we learn that Bob has passed at the age of 46.<\/p>\n

According to BNO News<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Blogger Bob Owens, the founder and editor of the pro-gun news website “Bearing Arms,” has been found dead in North Carolina in an apparent suicide, local officials say. He was 46 years old.<\/p>\n

The incident happened at about 10:54 a.m. on Monday when officers received a report of a gunshot victim near a stop sign at the intersection of Sequoia Ridge Drive and Judd Parkway in Fuquay-Varina. A firearm was found near the man, who was later identified as Owens.<\/p>\n

Just minutes before Owens’ body was found, at 10:51 a.m., a brief note was posted on his Facebook account. “In the end, it turns out that I’m not strong. I’m a coward, and a selfish son of a bitch. I’m sorry,” the message said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bob Owens was known as Confederate Yankee when we started blogging. He was very supportive of the work we did here. Lately, he retooled his internet presence with a new Second Amendment blog “Bearing Arms“. He linked to much of our work in regard to the second amendment and military issues. We have collaborated many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bloggers-and-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Bob-Owens.jpg?fit=472%2C309&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-iIn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}