{"id":1008,"date":"2021-02-01T20:07:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T01:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2021-02-01T20:09:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T01:09:41","slug":"gun-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/2021\/02\/01\/gun-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun Control!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gun control is a significant issue in the United States. Most Americans who oppose the right to bear arms do not know how use hold or clean a firearm. Only 1\/4th of Americans know how to use a gun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this education level so staggering, could it contribute to the lack of knowledge and fear about guns? If uneducated Americans call for more gun control, could it lead to a decrease in personal protection?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Especially in dangerous jurisdictions like California, Chicago, New York, and Washington D.C.?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/preview.redd.it\/0v6ri0707ye61.jpg?width=640&amp;crop=smart&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=3880c6be328c965e370fdb96dc085bcc7884d4d7\" alt=\"r\/gunpolitics - Notice a correlation between these cities where murder rates were rising?\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With the increase of restrictions, law obeying citizens may not have the ability to protect their families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Illegal guns are highly likely to be used in situations that would already warrant a felony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjs.gov\/content\/pub\/pdf\/fuo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.bjs.gov\/content\/pub\/pdf\/fuo.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many individuals in gun restriction states cannot legally protect themselves in home invasions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gun control is a significant issue in the United States. Most Americans who oppose the right to bear arms do not know how use hold or clean a firearm. Only 1\/4th of Americans know how to use a gun. With this education level so staggering, could it contribute to the lack of knowledge and fear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","beyondwords_generate_audio":"","beyondwords_project_id":"","beyondwords_podcast_id":"","beyondwords_hash":"","beyondwords_error_message":"","beyondwords_disabled":"","publish_post_to_speechkit":"","speechkit_generate_audio":"","speechkit_project_id":"","speechkit_podcast_id":"","speechkit_hash":"","speechkit_error_message":"","speechkit_disabled":"","speechkit_access_key":"","speechkit_error":"","speechkit_info":"","speechkit_response":"","speechkit_retries":"","_speechkit_link":"","_speechkit_text":""},"categories":[10,218],"tags":[7,412,413,35],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","category-washington","tag-americans","tag-gun-control","tag-guns","tag-usa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Gun-Control.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}