{"id":5539,"date":"2011-11-15T12:54:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T18:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2011-11-15T12:54:18","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T18:54:18","slug":"a-reasonable-lte-on-gun-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/15\/a-reasonable-lte-on-gun-control\/","title":{"rendered":"A reasonable LTE on Gun Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might want to check the comments and chime in.  Here&#8217;s a taste:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Conservatives tend to view handguns as a means of self-defense. Whereas liberals tend to view handguns as purely destructive devices.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps more importantly, conservatives tend to view guns and wars as tools that solve problems.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas liberals tend to see guns and wars as creating problems. (No battle ended the Irish \u201cTroubles.\u201d Egypt is working toward reform, while Iraq and Afghanistan are still a mess.)<\/p>\n<p>When you\u2019re surprised by a criminal, it rarely helps to own a gun. The sole purpose of handguns is to kill people \u2014 as, all too often, they do&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rrstar.com\/opinions\/whatyouresaying\/x495074586\/Letter-The-right-gun-control\">Read it all here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might want to check the comments and chime in. Here&#8217;s a taste:<\/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\/p5fhV1-1rl","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539"}],"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=5539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}