{"id":83177,"date":"2026-02-15T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T06:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=83177"},"modified":"2026-02-13T20:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:48:20","slug":"83177","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=83177","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Liberalizing concealed carry laws won&#8217;t lead to a return to the Wild West &#8211; though it wouldn&#8217;t be bad if it did. &#8230; in 19th Century cattle towns, homicide was confined to transient males who shot each other in saloon disturbances. The per capital robbery rate was 7% of modern New York City&#8217;s. The burglary rate was 1%. Rape was unknown<\/em>. &#8212; David Kopel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberalizing concealed carry laws won&#8217;t lead to a return to the Wild West &#8211; though it wouldn&#8217;t be bad if it did. &#8230; in 19th Century cattle towns, homicide was confined to transient males who shot each other in saloon disturbances. The per capital robbery rate was 7% of modern New York City&#8217;s. The burglary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=83177\" 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-83177","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\/83177","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=83177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83178,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83177\/revisions\/83178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}