{"id":67704,"date":"2016-08-30T11:07:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T15:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67704"},"modified":"2016-08-30T11:07:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T15:07:15","slug":"gun-control-casualties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67704","title":{"rendered":"Gun control casualties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/breaking\/ct-august-most-violent-shootings-chicago-20160829-story.html\">The Chicago Tribune<\/a> noticed that August 2016 is the deadliest month for Chicagoans in almost two decades with more than 2800 gunshot victims of whom 487 were killed. It seems to be a national trend;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chicago has a lower homicide rate than many other U.S. cities that are smaller in population. But this year, the city has recorded more homicides and shooting victims than New York City and Los Angeles combined, even though the two cities are larger than Chicago&#8217;s population of roughly 2.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>New York, with more than three times the population of Chicago, has recorded 760 shooting victims and logged 222 homicides, according to NYPD crime statistics through Aug. 21. In Los Angeles, a city of about 4 million, 176 people have been slain and 729 people shot, according to LAPD crime data through Aug. 20. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wgntv.com\/2016\/08\/30\/august-2016-is-chicagos-most-violent-month-in-20-years\/\">WGN<\/a> reports that just last weekend 67 Chicagoans were shot, 11 died from their wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, a military-aged American is safer in uniform in Iraq, Libya or Afghanistan fighting ISIS than living in inner-city America. New York, Chicago and Los Angeles also have the strictest gun control in the country reinforcing the old saw that when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. And the rest of us can&#8217;t protect ourselves from those outlaws.<\/p>\n<p>So when are we going to have a discussion about gun control that highlights these shining examples?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Tribune noticed that August 2016 is the deadliest month for Chicagoans in almost two &hellip; <a title=\"Gun control casualties\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67704\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gun control casualties<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67704","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\/67704","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=67704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}