{"id":21367,"date":"2015-08-01T09:17:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T13:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=21367"},"modified":"2015-08-01T09:17:40","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T13:17:40","slug":"study-regular-people-are-totally-useless-when-trying-to-use-handguns-in-self-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/08\/01\/study-regular-people-are-totally-useless-when-trying-to-use-handguns-in-self-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"STUDY: Regular People Are Totally Useless When Trying to Use Handguns In Self-Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Alternet<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/study-regular-people-are-totally-useless-when-trying-use-handguns-self-defense?sc=fb\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Alternet article\">STUDY: Regular People Are Totally Useless When Trying to Use Handguns In Self-Defense<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA new study by researchers at Mount St. Mary&#8217;s University shows that proper training and the ability to know how and when to apply lethal force is essential to not only &#8220;stopping a bad guy&#8221; but not killing yourself and other innocent bystanders.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The situations in the article&#8217;s accompanying video are what I imagine when I hear of the idea of everyone carrying a gun.  I wonder if the advocates for more wide spread gun carrying ever think about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternet has the article STUDY: Regular People Are Totally Useless When Trying to Use Handguns In Self-Defense. A new study by researchers at Mount St. Mary&#8217;s University shows that proper training and the ability to know how and when to apply lethal force is essential to not only &#8220;stopping a bad guy&#8221; but not killing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21368,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21367\/revisions\/21368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}