{"id":20803,"date":"2014-07-17T16:24:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T16:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=20803"},"modified":"2014-07-17T16:27:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T16:27:28","slug":"because-its-not-about-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=20803","title":{"rendered":"Because It's Not About Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It's about projecting aggression.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href='http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/studies-stand-your-ground-laws'>Researchers at<\/a> Texas A&amp;M University, for a study published in the Journal of Human Resources, concluded that homicides had increased by 8 percent in the more than 20 states that had passed &quot;castle doctrine&quot; laws, many of which include Stand Your Ground provisions. That equals 600 additional homicides every year in those states, they wrote.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, however, the researchers found no detectable decrease in burglary, robbery or aggravated assault.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It's about trying to assuage gun-fondlers' insecurities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It's about projecting aggression. Researchers at Texas A&amp;M University, for a study published in the Journal of Human Resources, concluded that homicides had increased by 8 percent in the more than 20 states that had passed &quot;castle doctrine&quot; laws, many of which include Stand Your Ground provisions. That equals 600 additional homicides every year in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20803"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20806,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20803\/revisions\/20806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}