{"id":102026,"date":"2024-05-22T19:08:48","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T00:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=102026"},"modified":"2024-05-22T19:12:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T00:12:26","slug":"102026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=102026","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Do We Own 50% Of The Worlds Guns But Not Lead The World In Gun Violence?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ydzhoxFvD40\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe>BLUF:<\/p>\n<p>The United States makes up less than 5% of the global population, yet we Americans hold nearly 50% of civilian guns worldwide.<br \/>\nWith all these guns, you\u2019d expect America to be at the top of the charts in gun violence and deaths, right?<\/p>\n<p>When you dive into the statistics, past the fear and the headlines, you find that the U.S. doesn\u2019t even crack the top 10 globally for gun violence or deaths per capita.<br \/>\n&#8220;The U.S. has the 32nd-highest rate of deaths from gun violence in the world: 3.96 deaths per 100,000 people in 2019.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Most gun violence in our nation isn\u2019t scattered randomly across the vast landscapes of America.<br \/>\nNo, it\u2019s concentrated in just 2% of our counties.Over half of all our murders happen in these small pockets.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t just about advocating for the right to bear arms. It\u2019s about advocating for the right to live in a society that tackles the root causes of its problems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeffBLUF: The United States makes up less than 5% of the global population, yet we Americans hold nearly 50% of civilian guns worldwide. With all these guns, you\u2019d expect America to be at the top of the charts in gun violence and deaths, right? When you dive into the statistics, past the fear and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=102026\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-rkba","category-vid-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102026"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102029,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102026\/revisions\/102029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}