{"id":356,"date":"2006-07-22T16:11:45","date_gmt":"2006-07-22T16:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/?p=356"},"modified":"2006-07-22T16:11:45","modified_gmt":"2006-07-22T16:11:45","slug":"armed-and-patriotic-safer-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/armed-and-patriotic-safer-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed and patriotic = safer society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/US\/07\/21\/supermarket.stabbing.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">a story<\/a> a friend of mine sent me with his comments&#8230;  A knife-wielding grocery store employee attacked eight co-workers Friday, seriously injuring five before a witness pulled a gun and stopped him, police said.  &#8216;Police arrived within minutes and took the attacker into custody&#8230;&#8217;<br \/>\nMoral of this story:  Responsible citizens with guns save lives through deterrence of crime and stopping attacks in progress.  There aren&#8217;t enough police around in any given emergency, they tend to show up too late since they are understaffed or misallocated in most places.<br \/>\nI could not have said it better!  Thanks Gal.  Yes this is a pro-gun view which I could easily write an entire book on for anyone interested in an open discussion:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a story a friend of mine sent me with his comments&#8230; A knife-wielding grocery store employee attacked eight co-workers Friday, seriously injuring five before a witness pulled a gun and stopped him, police said. &#8216;Police arrived within minutes and took the attacker into custody&#8230;&#8217; Moral of this story: Responsible citizens with guns save lives<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/armed-and-patriotic-safer-society\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button \">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-self-defense"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}