{"id":6022,"date":"2009-08-05T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/08\/05\/ok-time-to-ban-handguns-are-yo\/"},"modified":"2009-08-05T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T16:35:00","slug":"ok-time-to-ban-handguns-are-yo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/05\/ok-time-to-ban-handguns-are-yo\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, time to ban handguns.  Are you with me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The man who entered an LA Fitness aerobics class and killed three women and shot many others legally purchased the two Glock 9 mm guns that he used.  This makes him the current poster child for banning the sales of handguns in the US.  Now.  Not just one gun a month max, not just guns to people who are not known to be nutjobs.  I&#8217;m talking about stopping all handgun sales now, without exceptions.<\/p>\n<p>The National Rifle Association disagrees with me.  But who cares?  The National Rifle Association also told Congress to not allow Sonia Sotomayor to be appointed to the supreme court, but it looks like Congress is going to more or less ignore the NRA.  So, the rest of us can start ignoring those thugs as well.  Anybody got a problem with this?  Good.  Let&#8217;s make it happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man who entered an LA Fitness aerobics class and killed three women and shot many others legally purchased the two Glock 9 mm guns that he used. This makes him the current poster child for banning the sales of handguns in the US. Now. Not just one gun a month max, not just guns &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/05\/ok-time-to-ban-handguns-are-yo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OK, time to ban handguns.  Are you with me?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1z8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6022"}],"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=6022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}