{"id":2282,"date":"2013-05-12T19:01:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T23:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2013-05-12T19:01:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T23:01:04","slug":"gun-control-as-seen-by-honest-criminologists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/gun-control-as-seen-by-honest-criminologists\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGUN CONTROL\u201d AS SEEN BY HONEST CRIMINOLOGISTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My old friend Don Kates \u2013 a hard-core liberal who worked with William Kunstler and the Freedom Riders back in the day \u2013 is the sort of honest liberal who believes that every potential victim has the right to defend himself or herself.\u00a0 Now retired after a long and brilliant career as a Constitutional lawyer, law professor, and criminologist <i>extrordinaire<\/i>, Don was kind enough to pass along the following.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It was written by David Kennedy. Kates describes Kennedy as not at all \u201cpro-gun.\u201d\u00a0 Kennedy does, however, appear to be honest, and true to his profession, which is criminology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Read this, and let us know what you think: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-kennedy-crime-and-gun-control-20130505,0,4745966.story\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-kennedy-crime-and-gun-control-20130505,0,4745966.story<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My old friend Don Kates \u2013 a hard-core liberal who worked with William Kunstler and the Freedom Riders back in the day \u2013 is the sort of honest liberal who believes that every potential victim has the right to defend himself or herself.\u00a0 Now retired after a long and brilliant career as a Constitutional lawyer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearm-owners-civil-rights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282","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=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/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=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}