{"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 fascinating interview. Several bits stood out to me. I mention two here:<br>\u201cJoe Nocera at the Times runs a daily tally of gun killings. He\u2019s not running a daily tally of how many people defend themselves with guns. For one thing we don\u2019t know about it most of the time. David Hemenway at Harvard is very pro gun-control and he thinks it happens about 80,000 times a year. If that\u2019s true, that means that guns are saving 10 times as many people as they\u2019re killing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have this impulse in the U.S. to do something. We have no national church, so the only way we can express our public morality is to say there ought to be a law. It\u2019s antithetical to the American can-do character to say there are certain things we just can\u2019t do much&nbsp;about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the record, I am not a \u201cgun&nbsp;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 Liberals Need to Understand About \u2018Gun&nbsp;Guys\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author of a new book tries to reconcile his personal politics with his fondness for firearms.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fascinating interview. Several bits stood out to me. I mention two here:\u201cJoe Nocera at the Times runs a daily tally of gun killings. He\u2019s not running a daily tally of how many people defend themselves with guns. For one thing we don\u2019t know about it most of the time. David Hemenway at \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2013\/03\/10\/3687\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"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}]}}