{"id":129480,"date":"2016-01-13T20:47:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T03:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/13\/guns-and-politics.html"},"modified":"2016-02-11T22:37:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T05:37:47","slug":"guns-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/13\/guns-and-politics.html","title":{"rendered":"Guns and Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So &#8230; an interesting correlation between state political leaning and state rate of gun deaths per capita.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.crowdpac.com\/blog\/gun-deaths-a'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/HEpPdK7DI-rk59Y27BSZX9Qrsy5UWPJirYomxm1SdmKpOknt5bDO2toZNPeeuvMXgjHJ2f9-VTB7l3DXkyz06dtYSxHz628dGpASMMuzJm7m8fjO0rK04ahik1xM8ij9DFI=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.crowdpac.com\/blog\/gun-deaths-a'>Mapping Gun Deaths by US States&#8217; Political Leanings (2)<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nBy analyzing publicly available data on political contributions, Crowdpac&#8217;s algorithm calculates objective political ideology scores for candidates, donors, organizations&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/ZLQcuYShW6x'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So &#8230; an interesting correlation between state political leaning and state rate of gun deaths per capita. Mapping Gun Deaths by US States&#8217; Political Leanings (2) By analyzing publicly available data on political contributions, Crowdpac&#8217;s algorithm calculates objective political ideology scores for candidates, donors, organizations&#8230; View on Google+<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-guns"],"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":129480,"position":0},"title":"Guns? 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