{"id":846,"date":"2017-11-17T19:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T03:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=846"},"modified":"2017-11-17T19:00:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T03:00:37","slug":"gun-violence-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/17\/gun-violence-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun Violence Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn\u2019t seem like it.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.illinois.edu\/blog\/view\/6367\/568301\">Mass killings happen randomly, yet rate has remained steady, study finds<\/a>. However, other data support that conclusion: Kieran Healy:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kieranhealy.org\/blog\/archives\/2017\/10\/02\/assault-deaths-to-2015\/\">Assault Deaths to 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Point and Counterpoint:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2017\/10\/2\/16399418\/us-gun-violence-statistics-maps-charts\">America\u2019s unique gun violence problem, explained in 17 maps and charts<\/a>\u00a0(Vox.com), and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adn.com\/opinions\/national-opinions\/2017\/10\/03\/i-used-to-think-gun-control-was-the-answer-my-research-told-me-otherwise\/\">I used to think gun control was the answer. My research told me otherwise.<\/a>\u00a0(Leah Libresco, formerly with 538)<\/p>\n<p>Christians don\u2019t have to live in fear, but we do need to rethink what it means to be a church today:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thomrainer.com\/2017\/11\/church-prepare-active-shooter\/\">How Your Church Should Prepare for an Active Shooter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<em>Cross-posted at <a href=\"https:\/\/jlppastor.wordpress.com\/2017\/11\/17\/gun-violence-information\/\">jlppastor<\/a>.<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn\u2019t seem like it.\u00a0Mass killings happen randomly, yet rate has remained steady, study finds. However, other data support that conclusion: Kieran Healy:\u00a0Assault Deaths to 2015 Point and Counterpoint:\u00a0America\u2019s unique gun violence problem, explained in 17 maps and charts\u00a0(Vox.com), and\u00a0I used to think gun control was the answer. My research told me otherwise.\u00a0(Leah Libresco, formerly &hellip; <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/17\/gun-violence-information\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[514,717,515,54,516],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-firearms","tag-gun-violence","tag-guns","tag-society","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}