{"id":1550,"date":"2009-07-01T09:17:13","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T16:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2009-06-05T14:20:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T21:20:02","slug":"front-sight-mail-bag-what-aggressive-gun-control-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2009\/07\/01\/front-sight-mail-bag-what-aggressive-gun-control-looks-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Sight Mail Bag: Who are we like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Piazza<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see what an aggressive &#8216;gun control&#8217; program in a cultural context that is similar to that in the US produces then you only need to look at Great Britain. There they have sky rocketing violent crime rates and an ineffective criminal justice system coupled with a rapid erosion of civil rights such as the right to free speech, press, and the right to criticize the government.<\/p>\n<p>In America we are, if anything, more inclined to violence than the British. So, effectively preventing self defense here would rather quickly plunge us into chaos. At that point the popular cry would be heard throughout the land to hang ALL politicians for treason!<\/p>\n<p>Robert M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Piazza If you want to see what an aggressive &#8216;gun control&#8217; program in a cultural context that is similar to that in the US produces then you only need to look at Great Britain. There they have sky rocketing violent crime rates and an ineffective criminal justice system coupled with a rapid erosion of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1,23,14],"tags":[456,452,459,454,453,457,121,450,150,458,151,4788,455,451],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1552,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions\/1552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}