{"id":598,"date":"2013-01-20T15:12:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T21:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=598"},"modified":"2017-03-26T19:44:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T00:44:23","slug":"what-studies-say-about-strict-gun-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=598","title":{"rendered":"The verdict on strict gun laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 227px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howstuffworks.com\/strict-gun-laws-less-crime.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"March on Washington for Gun Control\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/a\/ac\/March_on_Washington_for_Gun_Control_032.JPG\" width=\"227\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Slowking4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tragic events like the Sandy Hook Elementary mass shooting inspire horror and indignation. They also boost gun sales and energize campaigns demanding more comprehensive (or better-enforced) gun control. But as of this writing, the likelihood of legal reform following the events in Newtown, Conn., remains unclear.<\/p>\n<p>In the U.S., the gun control debate involves deep-seated beliefs concerning constitutional law, individual rights, the proper role of the state and how to build the best and safest society. But it also encompasses an important practical question:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howstuffworks.com\/strict-gun-laws-less-crime.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Do Countries with Stricter Gun Laws Experience Less Crime or Fewer Homicides?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tragic events like the Sandy Hook Elementary mass shooting inspire horror and indignation. They also boost gun sales and energize campaigns demanding more comprehensive (or better-enforced) gun control. But as of this writing, the likelihood of legal reform following the events in Newtown, Conn., remains unclear. In the U.S., the gun control debate involves deep-seated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=598\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The verdict on strict gun laws<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,4,290,415,3,13,93],"tags":[525,531,24,524,519,16,530,527,528,520,522,523,526,521,529],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer","category-culture","category-history","category-law-2","category-psychology","category-science","category-technology","category-weapons","tag-2nd-ammendment","tag-atf","tag-behavior","tag-constitution","tag-crime","tag-economics","tag-freakonomics","tag-gun-control","tag-guns","tag-homicide","tag-mass-shooting","tag-murder","tag-nra","tag-suicide","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1138,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}