{"id":5092,"date":"2012-02-24T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T18:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=2465"},"modified":"2012-02-24T12:00:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T18:00:32","slug":"interesting-gun-related-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/24\/interesting-gun-related-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting gun-related facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>There are somewhere between about 200 and 2.5 millino &#8220;defensive gun uses&#8221; per year, depending on who you ask.  The truth is closer to 200 (<a href=\"http:\/\/propagandaprofessor.net\/2012\/02\/18\/estimating-defensive-gun-uses-reasonably\/\">Estimating Defensive Gun Uses Reasonably<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>MILF does not mean Mothers Into Legal Firearms (but they&#8217;re not really legal) (<a href=\"http:\/\/latino.foxnews.com\/latino\/news\/2012\/02\/09\/atf-busts-gun-running-moms-in-texas\/#ixzz1luTN6eLQ\">ATF Busts Real Housewives Buying Guns for Cartels<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>There is a nationwide boycott of Starbucks because of their Zany relationship to guns and stuff (<a href=\"http:\/\/my.firedoglake.com\/spocko\/2012\/02\/15\/want-guns-with-your-grande-at-starbucks\/\">Want Guns With Your Grande at Starbucks?<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>In North Carolina, state legislators have a higher rate of concealed weapon permits than the rest of the population. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-record.com\/content\/2012\/02\/11\/article\/gun_permits_are_higher_among_legislators_why\">Concealed weapon permits higher among legislators<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>When you let a gun pass into the hands of a criminal due to lax gun laws, you increase the chance that a cop is going to have to take a life. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/killings-in-line-of-duty-haunt-police-officers\/2011\/12\/28\/gIQAIxjS2Q_story.html\">Killings in line of duty haunt police officers<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>If Han Solo was an Iowan, he would have shot first. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20120212\/BASU\/302120051\/-1\/GETPUBLISHED03\/Rekha-Basu-Gun-bill-shoots-holes-building-civil-society\">Gun bill shoots holes in building a civil society<\/a>)<sup>1<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>The NRA is less influential in Washington than you thought. (<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2012\/02\/09\/421893\/the-myth-of-nra-dominance-part-i-the-nras-ineffective-spending\/\">The Myth Of NRA Dominance Part I: The NRA\u2019s Ineffective Spending<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Ted Nugent is jerk (<a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/201202150010\">NRA Spokesman Ted Nugent&#8217;s Top 10 Inflammatory Comments<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Barack Obama did not endorse a &#8220;total ban on handguns&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/statements\/2012\/feb\/13\/wayne-lapierre\/nra-leader-says-barack-obama-endorsed-total-ban-ha\/\">Truth O Meter<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>______________________<br \/>\n<sup>1<\/sup>Yeah, right, I know, I know. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"369\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YGpuM_VJDQ4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are somewhere between about 200 and 2.5 millino &#8220;defensive gun uses&#8221; per year, depending on who you ask. The truth is closer to 200 (Estimating Defensive Gun Uses Reasonably) MILF does not mean Mothers Into Legal Firearms (but they&#8217;re not really legal) (ATF Busts Real Housewives Buying Guns for Cartels) There is a nationwide &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/24\/interesting-gun-related-facts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interesting gun-related facts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[449,290],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1k8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092"}],"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=5092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}