{"id":3968,"date":"2022-03-02T13:56:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T18:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/?p=3968"},"modified":"2022-03-02T13:56:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T18:56:40","slug":"guns-save-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/guns-save-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Guns Save Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">While owning and carrying a gun is a personal choice, there can be no argument that Guns Save Lives.  They are the only tool available that levels the playing field in a physical confrontation.  Yes you read that right.  In some physical confrontations your skill or size doesn&#8217;t matter, physical confrontation are very dynamic and fluid where anything can happen.  I always ask this question, if your wife\/sister\/mother\/girlfriend is home alone and one or more large attackers break into their home, what is the one tool that levels the playing field.  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/edit?mid=1l1X91-gXlZdJOhc-EiUB80mgbBXrygT4&amp;ll=37.85571151049381%2C-102.48405075879552&amp;z=5\" target=\"_blank\">This map<\/a> I found from what appears to be a now defunct website is a great visual of how many times guns save lives.  Here is another site (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunssavelife.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GunsSaveLife.com<\/a>) with great information.  They say a picture is worth a thousand words&#8230;think about it&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<script>\r\n document.write('<hr style=\"width=75%; border-top: 2px solid #000; margin: auto;'>');\r\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/edit?mid=1l1X91-gXlZdJOhc-EiUB80mgbBXrygT4&amp;ll=37.85571151049381%2C-102.48405075879552&amp;z=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/guns-save-lives-1024x608.png\" alt=\"guns save lives\" class=\"wp-image-3970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/guns-save-lives-1024x608.png 1024w, https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/guns-save-lives-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/guns-save-lives-768x456.png 768w, https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/guns-save-lives-1536x912.png 1536w, https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/guns-save-lives-800x475.png 800w, https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/guns-save-lives-600x356.png 600w, https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/guns-save-lives-400x237.png 400w, https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/guns-save-lives.png 1858w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Guns Save Lives<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<script>\r\n document.write('<hr style=\"width=75%; border-top: 2px solid #000; margin: auto;'>');\r\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While owning and carrying a gun is a personal choice, there can be no argument that Guns Save Lives. They are the only tool available that levels the playing field in a physical confrontation. Yes you read that right. In some physical confrontations your skill or size doesn&#8217;t matter, physical confrontation are very dynamic and<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/guns-save-lives\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button \">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123458,"featured_media":3833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,33,9,42],"tags":[31,174,170],"class_list":["post-3968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-enforcement","category-in-the-news","category-self-defense","category-weapons","tag-guns","tag-in-the-news","tag-self-defense"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2nd-amendment-banner.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968","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\/123458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3971,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968\/revisions\/3971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}