{"id":22221,"date":"2011-02-08T08:25:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T12:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22221"},"modified":"2011-02-08T08:26:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T12:26:22","slug":"guns-and-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22221","title":{"rendered":"Guns and class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this morning&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2011\/02\/07\/AR2011020706450.html?hpid=topnews\">Washington Post<\/a>, Paul Duggan does his level best to make gun ownership in DC an issue of class since his attempts at making gun ownership immoral have failed;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the 2\u00bd years since the U.S. Supreme Court ended the District&#8217;s handgun ban, hundreds of residents in Washington&#8217;s safest, most well-to-do neighborhoods have armed themselves, registering far more guns than people in poorer, crime-plagued areas of the city, according to D.C. police data. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, maybe that&#8217;s because the &#8220;people in poorer, crime-plagued areas&#8221; 1) can&#8217;t afford to legally purchase handguns and then jump through hoops of registration the city has arrayed in front of them, 2) already own illegally purchased and unregistered guns, or 3) don&#8217;t own anything worth stealing.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the Post has to make it look like a class thing to shame the rich liberals into abrogating their responsibility to protect their families and property. Yes, crime in Georgetown and Chevy Chase is infrequent, that doesn&#8217;t mean it never happens. And it only happens to the unprepared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this morning&#8217;s Washington Post, Paul Duggan does his level best to make gun ownership in &hellip; <a title=\"Guns and class\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22221\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guns and class<\/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":[82,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-grabbing-fascists","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22221","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=22221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}