{"id":33269,"date":"2012-12-17T12:20:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T16:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33269"},"modified":"2012-12-17T12:20:45","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T16:20:45","slug":"a-little-hard-data-to-po-the-anti-gun-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33269","title":{"rendered":"A Little Hard Data to PO the Anti-Gun Crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some \u201cgentle souls\u201d out there think all guns should be banned.\u00a0 They are indeed ignorant and misguided fools.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re probably beyond education on this point.\u00a0 But I\u2019ll try to enlighten them anyway.<\/p>\n

There are many reasons the 2nd Amendment recognizes an individual\u2019s right to keep and bear arms.\u00a0 Some are related to liberty.\u00a0 But one even more near and dear to all of us is personal protection.<\/p>\n

Here is a short, \u201cquick and dirty\u201d list of average police response times to emergency calls (generally defined as violent crimes in progress requiring an immediate police response) in major cities in the US.\u00a0 In smaller towns and rural areas, the response time can be expected to be longer.<\/p>\n