{"id":81177,"date":"2024-11-15T00:02:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T06:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=81177"},"modified":"2024-11-14T19:24:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T01:24:34","slug":"81177","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=81177","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Firearms have been around for over 400 years, yet it is only in the last 20 years that people have begun shouting &#8220;gun control&#8221;. Why then, only recently, has this become such an issue? Moreover, why are there more mass-murderers than at any other time in our known history? It is not because weapons are more powerful &#8212; 200-year-old muzzleloaders have a much greater force-per-round than today&#8217;s &#8220;assault rifles&#8221;. It is not because weapons are semi- or fully-automatic &#8212; rapid-fire weapons have been available for most of the last century. It is not due to a lack of laws &#8212; we have more &#8220;gun control&#8221; laws than ever. It IS, however, because we have chosen to focus on &#8220;gun control&#8221; instead of crime control or &#8220;thug control.&#8221; It IS because only recently has the public become complacent enough to accept, by inaction, the violence present in our society.<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211; Kevin Langston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firearms have been around for over 400 years, yet it is only in the last 20 years that people have begun shouting &#8220;gun control&#8221;. Why then, only recently, has this become such an issue? Moreover, why are there more mass-murderers than at any other time in our known history? It is not because weapons are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=81177\" 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":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81177","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=81177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105585,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81177\/revisions\/105585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}