{"id":57490,"date":"2015-01-06T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57490"},"modified":"2015-01-05T14:27:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T19:27:31","slug":"forbes-second-most-gun-friendly-state-is-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57490","title":{"rendered":"Forbes: Second most &#8220;gun friendly state&#8221; is DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe he was talking about Bizarro DC, you know that DC which is the exact opposite of the one on our planet. But this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/niallmccarthy\/2015\/01\/05\/americas-most-gun-friendly-states-infographic\/\">Niall McCarthy <\/a> fellow, writing in Forbes, needs to check his research when he claims that DC has 66 firearms for every 1000 citizens. If they do, then Niall isn&#8217;t counting legally owned firearms &#8211; somehow he got the criminals to confess to possession of their illegal guns. <a href=\"http:\/\/mpdc.dc.gov\/page\/district-crime-data-glance\">The police department<\/a> in the city that has all but banned guns for thirty years still recovers about 2000 illegal guns every year from the streets.<\/p>\n<p>He claims that Wyoming is the most &#8220;gun friendly&#8221; state because they have 196 guns per 1000 citizens;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even though Wyoming is awash with guns, one for every five residents, its violent crime rate is relatively low compared to other states. Nevertheless, a high rate of gun suicide is still cause for serious concern.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A concern for who? People who tend to commit suicide? Yeah, they should give up their guns, but the rest of us who aren&#8217;t committing suicide should be left alone. Why doesn&#8217;t Niall tell us the number of suicides in Wyoming since he made a point of mentioning suicide?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe he was talking about Bizarro DC, you know that DC which is the exact opposite &hellip; <a title=\"Forbes: Second most &#8220;gun friendly state&#8221; is DC\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57490\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Forbes: Second most &#8220;gun friendly state&#8221; is DC<\/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-57490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57490","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=57490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}