{"id":23926,"date":"2016-07-15T11:28:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T15:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=23926"},"modified":"2016-07-15T11:28:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T15:28:44","slug":"fact-of-the-day-by-76-to-19-police-chiefs-say-armed-citizens-help-reduce-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/23926\/fact-of-the-day-by-76-to-19-police-chiefs-say-armed-citizens-help-reduce-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact of the Day:  By 76% to 19%, Police Chiefs Say Armed Citizens Help Reduce Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/3188-gallup-poll-americans-still-value-police-and-military-highest\" target=\"_blank\">Liberty Update<\/a>, we note the high degree of confidence and respect that Americans hold toward the nation&#8217;s police officers. \u00a0That respect is returned by the nation&#8217;s police chiefs, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/blog\/survey-76-police-chiefs-say-armed-citizens-reduce-violent-crime\" target=\"_blank\">new survey<\/a>. \u00a0By a 76% to 19% supermajority, surveyed chiefs say that &#8220;qualified, law-abiding armed citizens can help law enforcement reduce violent activity.&#8221; \u00a0Similarly, by an 88% to 9% margin they agree that any vetted citizen should be able to buy firearms for self-defense or sport, and an 86% to 11% majority supports nationwide recognition of state-issued conceal weapon permits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&#8217;s Liberty Update, we note the high degree of confidence and respect that Americans hold toward the nation&#8217;s police officers. \u00a0That respect is returned by the nation&#8217;s police chiefs, according to a new survey. \u00a0By a 76% to 19% supermajority, surveyed chiefs say that &#8220;qualified, law-abiding armed citizens can help law enforcement reduce [&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":[4895,220,1389],"class_list":["post-23926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-police-chiefs","tag-second-amendment","tag-survey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23926","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=23926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23927,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23926\/revisions\/23927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}