{"id":10153,"date":"2012-12-30T14:45:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T20:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=10153"},"modified":"2012-12-30T14:45:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T20:45:37","slug":"we-all-believe-in-gun-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/we-all-believe-in-gun-control\/","title":{"rendered":"We all believe in gun control"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Let’s face it – we all believe in gun control in some form or fashion.<\/p>\n

Whether it’s keeping my two-year old boys (or your young children) from playing with an AK-47 unattended, or restricting those with criminal records from buying a gun, or maybe its the restriction of selling US arms to foreign groups — we all believe in gun control to some extent.<\/p>\n

According to the CDC and the University of Chicago Crime Lab, the US currently averages 87 gun deaths each day as a function of gun violence, with an average of 183 injured.<\/p>\n

So, perhaps rather than asking whether or not we believe in gun control — the real question is where’s the line for you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s face it – we all believe in gun control in some form or fashion. Whether it’s keeping my two-year old boys (or your young children) from playing with an AK-47 unattended, or restricting those with criminal records from buying a gun, or maybe its the restriction of selling US arms to foreign groups — … Continue reading We all believe in gun control<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[3099,4371,2039,3684,4335],"class_list":["post-10153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-take-action","tag-deaths","tag-firearms","tag-gun-control","tag-guns","tag-us"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-2DL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}