{"id":1862,"date":"2012-08-11T17:39:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T21:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2012-08-11T17:39:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T21:39:51","slug":"in-a-time-of-hypocrisythe-hypocrisy-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/in-a-time-of-hypocrisythe-hypocrisy-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"IN A TIME OF HYPOCRISY\u2026THE HYPOCRISY OF TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been a reader of Time<\/em> magazine since I was a kid. For about half a century now, the publication has locked itself into an anti-gun editorial stance. In the August 6, 2012 edition, the cover story was \u201cHow Guns Won: Why Americans Have Turned Against Gun Control,\u201d by Joe Klein. \u00a0The magazine opens with managing editor Richard Stengel opining that \u201c\u2026politicians have abdicated responsibility on even common sense measures \u2013 like the now lapsed assault weapons ban that Bill Clinton signed in 1994 \u2013 that a majority of Americans would support.\u201d<\/p>\n

It makes the reader wonder if he actually read Mr. Klein\u2019s article.<\/p>\n

He must have, because he says of Klein\u2019s findings, \u201cViolent gun-related deaths have been declining for the past 20 years. Over the same period, the percentage of Americans in favor of stricter gun control has dropped by almost half.\u201d But perhaps he missed the part where Klein wrote of the gun control cause, \u201cIt also didn\u2019t help that there was no clear evidence that the assault-weapons ban had accomplished anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

The gun issue is one of our nation\u2019s most polarized debates. Klein noted, and Stengel seemed to reluctantly accept, that \u201cthe percentage of Americans in favor of stricter gun control has dropped by almost half.\u201d\u00a0 The title of John Lott\u2019s excellent book \u201cMore Guns, Less Crime\u201d says it all, but it\u2019s counter-intuitive to those who try to stuff complicated issues like violent crime into oversimplified pigeon-holes such as \u201cgun control.\u201d<\/p>\n

The August 6 issue of Time<\/em> reminds us that oversimplified answers to complicated questions are so attractive, that they survive in the face of overwhelming evidence that they don\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve been a reader of Time magazine since I was a kid. For about half a century now, the publication has locked itself into an anti-gun editorial stance. In the August 6, 2012 edition, the cover story was \u201cHow Guns Won: Why Americans Have Turned Against Gun Control,\u201d by Joe Klein. \u00a0The magazine opens with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearm-owners-civil-rights","8":"category-firearms"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}