{"id":1354,"date":"2012-12-14T13:48:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T19:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2012-12-14T13:48:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T19:48:57","slug":"gun-control-kills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1354","title":{"rendered":"GUN CONTROL KILLS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FACT:\u00a0 All but one of the mass shootings (where three or more people died) since 1950 occurred in places where handguns were banned.<\/p>\n<p>FACT:\u00a0 Dictators rise to power where guns are banned.<\/p>\n<p>FACT:\u00a0 Criminals prosper where guns are banned.<\/p>\n<p>FACT:\u00a0 Families are safer with guns in the home.<\/p>\n<p>FACT:\u00a0 The second strongest believers in the second amendment own a gun.<\/p>\n<p>FACT:\u00a0 The strongest believers in the second amendment own more than one gun.<\/p>\n<p>FACT:\u00a0 Governments that take guns away from their people, kill their people.<\/p>\n<p>FACT:\u00a0 You cannot trust any government with your self-defense.<\/p>\n<p>(I wrote this yesterday, but did not get to post it until now, just a few hours after this morning&#8217;s tragedy in Connecticut.\u00a0 I did not add anything, yet)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FACT:\u00a0 All but one of the mass shootings (where three or more people died) since 1950 occurred in places where handguns were banned. FACT:\u00a0 Dictators rise to power where guns are banned. FACT:\u00a0 Criminals prosper where guns are banned. FACT:\u00a0 Families are safer with guns in the home. FACT:\u00a0 The second strongest believers in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}