{"id":4132,"date":"2017-03-23T10:55:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T14:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=4132"},"modified":"2017-03-23T10:55:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T14:55:37","slug":"the-cot-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/the-cot-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"THE CO$T$ OF IT\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trauma care in America today is better than ever\u2026and probably also more expensive than ever. Those who would ban civilian use of firearms like to take figures on gunshot victims, multiply by<br \/>\ncost of treatment, and claim that we gun owners are somehow responsible for billions of<br \/>\ndollars in medical care for victims of criminals and gang wars.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nNow comes Dan Zimmerman from over at TTAG with an opposing view. Please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/2017\/03\/daniel-zimmerman\/defensive-gun-use-savings-dwarf-gun-violence-costs\/\" target=\"_blank\">read it here<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u2026 and tell me what you think. I was never an economics major nor a statistician, and a lot of<br \/>\nyou are better at analyzing this sort of thing than I am. I\u2019d like to hear your opinions. And<br \/>\ncongratulations to Dan Zimmerman for taking this novel look at things \u035efrom our perspective.\u035f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trauma care in America today is better than ever\u2026and probably also more expensive than ever. Those who would ban civilian use of firearms like to take figures on gunshot victims, multiply by cost of treatment, and claim that we gun owners are somehow responsible for billions of dollars in medical care for victims of criminals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-events","8":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132","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=4132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/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=4132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}