{"id":1203,"date":"2012-12-18T15:07:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T15:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2012-12-18T15:07:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T15:07:09","slug":"china-school-knife-attack-portland-mall-attack-receive-little-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/12\/18\/china-school-knife-attack-portland-mall-attack-receive-little-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"China School Knife Attack, Portland Mall Attack Receive Little Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the message of gun control proponents is that massive deaths in lone shooter incidents would end if strict gun control laws are passed, Meli&#8217;s example is that deaths would be minimized by instead ending &#8220;no gun zones.&#8221; Meli&#8217;s anecdote is backed up by data from the U.S. Justice Department&#8217;s Bureau of Justice Statistics, which reports that some 82,500 crimes across the nation are stopped by law-abiding gun owners annually, while only about 270 incidents involve the law-abiding citizen killing the criminal perpetrator (police also kill an average of 400 violent criminal suspects annually). The BJS also noted that law-abiding citizens were also far less likely to be injured in crimes while using firearms defending themselves. &#8220;A fifth of the victims defending themselves with a firearm suffered an injury, compared to almost half of those who defended themselves with weapons other than a firearm or who had no weapon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/forum2\/index.php?t=msg&amp;goto=29235&amp;#msg_29235\">http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/forum2\/index.php?t=msg&amp;goto=29235&amp;#msg_29235<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the message of gun control proponents is that massive deaths in lone shooter incidents would end if strict gun control laws are passed, Meli&#8217;s example is that deaths would be minimized by instead ending &#8220;no gun zones.&#8221; Meli&#8217;s anecdote is backed up by data from the U.S. Justice Department&#8217;s Bureau of Justice Statistics, which reports that some 82,500 crimes across the nation are stopped by law-abiding gun owners annually, while only about 270 incidents involve the law-abiding citizen killing the criminal perpetrator (police also kill an average of 400 violent criminal suspects annually). The BJS also noted that law-abiding citizens were also far less likely to be injured in crimes while using firearms defending themselves. &#8220;A fifth of the victims defending themselves with a firearm suffered an injury, compared to almost half of those who defended themselves with weapons other than a firearm or who had no weapon.&#8221; http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/forum2\/index.php?t=msg&amp;goto=29235&amp;#msg_29235<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-2nd-amendment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}