{"id":13609,"date":"2012-03-30T14:44:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T18:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=13609"},"modified":"2012-03-30T14:46:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T18:46:26","slug":"washington-d-c-following-supreme-courts-gun-ban-ruling-fewest-murders-since-1963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/13609\/washington-d-c-following-supreme-courts-gun-ban-ruling-fewest-murders-since-1963\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington, D.C.:  Following Supreme Court&#8217;s Gun Ban Ruling, Fewest Murders Since 1963"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the United States Supreme Court affirmed the Second Amendment&#8217;s individual right to keep and bear arms and overturned Washington, D.C.&#8217;s prohibition, Mayor Adrian Fenty <a href=\"http:\/\/johnrlott.blogspot.com.es\/2011\/08\/so-what-happened-to-chicagos-murder-and.html\" target=\"_blank\">predicted<\/a>, &#8220;More handguns in the District of Columbia will only lead to more handgun violence.&#8221;\u00a0 But that&#8217;s not what happened, which comes as no surprise to anyone paying attention to decades of real-world data.\u00a0 In the famous words of Dr. John Lott, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/More-Guns-Less-Crime-Understanding\/dp\/0226493636\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;More Guns, Less Crime.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702303812904577297801570813854.html?mod=ITP_pageone_1\" target=\"_blank\">noted<\/a> that the D.C. saw its fewest number of murders since 1963.\u00a0 What&#8217;s more, the decline occurred even as its police force has declined:\u00a0 &#8220;Washington, D.C., last year recorded 108 murders, its fewest since 1963, despite 230 fewer uniformed officers than in 2009.&#8221;\u00a0 More stubborn facts to debunk strangely persistent anti-gun hysteria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the United States Supreme Court affirmed the Second Amendment&#8217;s individual right to keep and bear arms and overturned Washington, D.C.&#8217;s prohibition, Mayor Adrian Fenty predicted, &#8220;More handguns in the District of Columbia will only lead to more handgun violence.&#8221;\u00a0 But that&#8217;s not what happened, which comes as no surprise to anyone paying attention to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1657,2318,220],"class_list":["post-13609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-crime","tag-more-guns-less-crime","tag-second-amendment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13609"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13611,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13609\/revisions\/13611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}