{"id":63327,"date":"2015-12-16T10:51:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T15:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63327"},"modified":"2015-12-16T10:51:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T15:51:17","slug":"abcwp-poll-less-gun-control-will-prevent-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63327","title":{"rendered":"ABC\/WP poll: less gun control will prevent terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know the Washington Post wants their money back for <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/now-oppose-assault-weapons-ban-doubts-stopping-lone\/story?id=35778846\">conducting this poll<\/a>. It seems that, if you believe poll results, Americans think that more guns in the hands of private citizens will do more to prevent terrorism than the government.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63328\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63328\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ABC-WP-poll-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"ABC WP poll\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ABC-WP-poll-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ABC-WP-poll-500x311.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ABC-WP-poll.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    Among the roughly three-quarters of Americans who doubt the government\u2019s ability to prevent a lone-wolf attack, 57 percent oppose banning assault weapons, vs. 41 percent in support. Those numbers are reversed among those who are more confident in government counterterrorism \u2013- 56 percent favor banning such weapons, while 42 percent are opposed.<\/p>\n<p>    The split is even more striking between those who see stricter gun control as the better way to fight terrorism, vs. \u201cencouraging more people to carry guns legally.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, it&#8217;s all mental masturbation, anyway. The 2d Amendment protects Americans from the government taking our guns away. Even if the poll went the other way, the Bill of Rights protects a minority from a tyrannical majority. &#8220;The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed&#8221; is pretty specific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know the Washington Post wants their money back for conducting this poll. It seems that, &hellip; <a title=\"ABC\/WP poll: less gun control will prevent terrorism\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63327\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ABC\/WP poll: less gun control will prevent terrorism<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63327","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=63327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}