{"id":30441,"date":"2012-06-19T13:15:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T17:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30441"},"modified":"2012-06-19T13:15:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T17:15:36","slug":"crime-down-gun-sales-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30441","title":{"rendered":"Crime down &#038; gun sales up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My new crush at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2012\/jun\/18\/gun-ownership-up-crime-down\/\">Washington Times<\/a>, Emily Miller, writes today about the distinct intersection of a falling rate of violent crimes in the country and proliferation of legal gun ownership;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced that violent crime decreased 4 percent in 2011. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>[Andrew Arulanandam, spokesman for the National Rifle Association] pointed out that only a handful of states had concealed-carry programs 25 years ago, when the violent-crime rate peaked. Today, 41 states either allow carrying without a permit or have \u201cshall issue\u201d laws that make it easy for just about any noncriminal to get a permit. Illinois and Washington, D.C., are the only places that refuse to recognize the right to bear arms. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, gee, I wonder why the Brady folks don&#8217;t have a comment. But this is why I have a crush on  Ms. Miller, it&#8217;s paragraphs like this;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Obama could honestly take credit for this jobs program, economic boost and the reduction in violent crime that has followed the spike in gun ownership on his watch. Instead, he\u2019s silent about his greatest positive accomplishment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new crush at the Washington Times, Emily Miller, writes today about the distinct intersection of &hellip; <a title=\"Crime down &#038; gun sales up\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30441\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crime down &#038; gun sales up<\/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":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30441","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=30441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}