{"id":21818,"date":"2011-01-11T13:42:55","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T17:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21818"},"modified":"2011-01-11T13:42:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T17:42:55","slug":"az-legislature-moves-to-loosen-gun-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21818","title":{"rendered":"AZ legislature moves to loosen gun laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the Tucson shooting this last weekend, some Arizona legislators are considering loosening gun laws which the Washington Post already considers too loose;<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"288\" width=\"470\"><param name=\"movie\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" value=\"http:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/v\/?i=113252884\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"AllowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/v\/?i=113252884\" AllowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" height=\"288\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"470\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik &#8230;is critical of two bills, House Bill 2001 and 2014, which would allow any college faculty member and those who have a proper permit to take their guns on campus.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ron Gould says, \u201cWe ran a similar bill several years ago in the Senate and it was after the Virginia Tech shooting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ron Gould, who supports both bills, says he wants to prevent that from happening again and says determined individuals are going to carry and use their gun regardless of laws against it. \u201cWe can\u2019t put guns back into Pandora\u2019s Box and seal it back up because once it\u2019s open, you can never close it again.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The reader who sent us the link (an Arizona resident) says<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And to answer those who claim more guns equals more crime, one can still offer up the example of Kennesaw, Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>In 1982 Kennesaw passed a local ordinance reading in part <i>\u2018every head of household residing in the city limits is required to maintain a firearm, together with ammunition therefore.\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n<p>There is reasonable evidence that the passage of this law was partially responsible for decreased crime in Kennesaw, which enjoys crime rates less than half the national average per capita despite a population boom of over 300% in the last 20 years. (statistics found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennesaw-ga.gov\/business\/installation\">here<\/a> , and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityrating.com\/citycrime.asp?city=Kennesaw&#038;state=GA\">here<\/a> .)<\/p>\n<p>A good article detailing the statistics, with a comparison to a comparable city in Illinois which enacted a complete gun ban, can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/?pageId=41196\">here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the Tucson shooting this last weekend, some Arizona legislators are considering loosening &hellip; <a title=\"AZ legislature moves to loosen gun laws\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21818\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AZ legislature moves to loosen gun laws<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-grabbing-fascists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}