{"id":24587,"date":"2017-10-02T21:05:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T02:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=24587"},"modified":"2018-02-01T19:15:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T01:15:32","slug":"more-guns-equals-more-gun-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/02\/more-guns-equals-more-gun-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"More guns equals more gun deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And lax legislation and elected representatives who run their elections using money from the gun industry make sure there are PLENTY of guns to go around. People who are running for office who have pro NRA positions and\/or take gun money should be drummed out of politics.<\/p>\n<p>The rate of gun ownership in a state <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2015\/07\/gun-owners-study-one-in-three\/\">predicts the rate of gun deaths<\/a> in that state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2017\/10\/gun-ownership-vs-gun-deaths_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2017\/10\/gun-ownership-vs-gun-deaths_2-610x524.png?resize=604%2C519\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"519\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24588\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2015\/12\/03\/key-charts-mass-shootings-gun-violence-united-states\/xLlu1HFK5y5newTtQcCkzI\/story.html\">This works<\/a> across countries as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2017\/10\/7-guns-and-death-rates.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2017\/10\/7-guns-and-death-rates.jpg?resize=1%2C1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24589\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2017\/10\/GunOwnershipVGunDeathAcrossCountries.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2017\/10\/GunOwnershipVGunDeathAcrossCountries-610x521.png?resize=604%2C516\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"516\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24590\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once again. Politicians who have voted in favor of NRA policies need to go.<\/p>\n<p>Photo above from <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4965720\/las-vegas-mass-shooting-photographer\/\">TIME<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And lax legislation and elected representatives who run their elections using money from the gun industry make sure there are PLENTY of guns to go around. People who are running for office who have pro NRA positions and\/or take gun money should be drummed out of politics. The rate of gun ownership in a state &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/02\/more-guns-equals-more-gun-deaths\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More guns equals more gun deaths<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5033],"tags":[421,451],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6oz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28831,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24587\/revisions\/28831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}