{"id":128238,"date":"2015-10-05T12:07:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T18:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/05\/in-fighting-gun-violence-knowledge-is-power.html"},"modified":"2015-11-11T09:36:13","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T16:36:13","slug":"in-fighting-gun-violence-knowledge-is-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/05\/in-fighting-gun-violence-knowledge-is-power.html","title":{"rendered":"In fighting gun violence, knowledge is power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which is one reason why the gun lobby is so keen to keep knowledge about gun deaths and injuries to a minimum, let alone addressing gun violence as a public health issue (besides vague handwaving about &quot;the crazies&quot;).<\/p>\n<p>The article&#39;s &quot;new way&quot; isn&#39;t all that new, but it&#39;s useful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/04\/opinion\/sunday\/nicholas-kristof-a-new-way-to-tackle-gun-deaths.html?mabReward=A4'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/JWx42gwUtcD9ffUG7OJpCKziQeRQY2AxYCanLHOzglkDsrgkLn4ee4htVnDmZgaY6HnWn41oOHIFClUz9G4OHZRp_WqD50io7bExnBBxwc7r97AkA1URjWyOXBQo8XI4sJykCXJA7jLpybxu2pM=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/04\/opinion\/sunday\/nicholas-kristof-a-new-way-to-tackle-gun-deaths.html?mabReward=A4'>A New Way to Tackle Gun Deaths &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe passivity of politicians has simply enabled mass shootings. It&rsquo;s time for a new approach to gun violence.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/TdWDRoNf9qF'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which is one reason why the gun lobby is so keen to keep knowledge about gun deaths and injuries to a minimum, let alone addressing gun violence as a public health issue (besides vague handwaving about &quot;the crazies&quot;). The article&#39;s &quot;new way&quot; isn&#39;t all that new, but it&#39;s useful. A New Way to Tackle Gun &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/05\/in-fighting-gun-violence-knowledge-is-power.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In fighting gun violence, knowledge is power&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,298,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-guns","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":127829,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/28\/guns-madness-no-mass-shootings-are-clearly-about-secular-progressivism.html","url_meta":{"origin":128238,"position":0},"title":"Guns? 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While I can understand the sentiment of not having a tool of violence pop up visually on the emoji screen all the time, unilaterally making that change\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":127817,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/26\/its-never-the-right-time-to-discuss-gun-violence-it-seems.html","url_meta":{"origin":128238,"position":5},"title":"It&#039;s never the right time to discuss gun violence, it seems","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 26-Aug-15 11:02pm","format":false,"excerpt":"If you can't discuss it after mass shootings because it's \"too soon\" ... then it's difficult to find a time to discuss it, given the frequency of mass shootings. 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