{"id":3687,"date":"2013-03-10T08:11:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T18:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2013\/03\/10\/3687"},"modified":"2013-03-10T08:11:15","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T18:57:55","slug":"3687","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2013\/03\/10\/3687","title":{"rendered":"\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"post_content\"><p>This is a fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading inter\u00adview. Sev\u00ader\u00adal bits stood out to me. I men\u00adtion two here:<br>\u201cJoe Nocera at the Times runs a dai\u00adly tal\u00adly of gun killings. He\u2019s not run\u00adning a dai\u00adly tal\u00adly of how many peo\u00adple defend them\u00adselves with guns. For one thing we don\u2019t know about it most of the time. David Hemen\u00adway at Har\u00advard is very pro gun-con\u00adtrol and he thinks it hap\u00adpens about 80,000 times a year. If that\u2019s true, that means that guns are sav\u00ading 10 times as many peo\u00adple as they\u2019re killing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have this impulse in the U.S. to do some\u00adthing. We have no nation\u00adal church, so the only way we can express our pub\u00adlic moral\u00adi\u00adty is to say there ought to be a law. It\u2019s anti\u00adthet\u00adi\u00adcal to the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan can-do char\u00adac\u00adter to say there are cer\u00adtain things we just can\u2019t do much about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the record, I am not a \u201cgun guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2013\/03\/what-liberals-need-to-understand-about-gun-guys\/273736\/?google_editors_picks=true\">What Lib\u00ader\u00adals Need to Under\u00adstand About \u2018Gun Guys\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author of a new book tries to rec\u00adon\u00adcile his per\u00adson\u00adal pol\u00adi\u00adtics with his fond\u00adness for firearms.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading inter\u00adview. Sev\u00ader\u00adal bits stood out to me. I men\u00adtion two here:\u201cJoe Nocera at the Times runs a dai\u00adly tal\u00adly of gun killings. He\u2019s not run\u00adning a dai\u00adly tal\u00adly of how many peo\u00adple defend them\u00adselves with guns. For one thing we don\u2019t know about it most of the time. David Hemen\u00adway at \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2013\/03\/10\/3687\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201c\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-3687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-asides","tag-google","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6Ded-3687","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}