{"id":34020,"date":"2013-02-06T07:41:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T11:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34020"},"modified":"2013-02-06T07:41:29","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T11:41:29","slug":"so-do-strict-gun-control-laws-really-lower-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34020","title":{"rendered":"So, Do Strict Gun Control Laws Really Lower Crime?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just ask the folks in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>In 1998, Massachusetts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/feb\/5\/gun-crime-rise-mass-1998-firearms-law\/\">overhauled their gun laws<\/a>.\u00a0 Gun purchase and ownership was restricted significantly by the changes.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1998, murders using firearms have risen 87.7 percent; aggravated assaults, 26.7 percent; and robberies using firearms, 20.7 percent.\u00a0 In contrast, during that same time frame the population of Massachusettes rose only approximately 7.0 percent &#8211; from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/population\/estimates\/state\/st-99-1.txt\">6.175 million<\/a> in 1998 to <a href=\"http:\/\/quickfacts.census.gov\/qfd\/states\/25000.html\">6.607 million<\/a> in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Yep &#8211; stricter gun control laws work really well to reduce crime, don&#8217;t they?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just ask the folks in Massachusetts. In 1998, Massachusetts overhauled their gun laws.\u00a0 Gun purchase and &hellip; <a title=\"So, Do Strict Gun Control Laws Really Lower Crime?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34020\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">So, Do Strict Gun Control Laws Really Lower Crime?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,156,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-guns","category-legal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34020","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}