{"id":35476,"date":"2013-04-01T05:53:42","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T10:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35476"},"modified":"2013-04-01T05:53:42","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T10:53:42","slug":"more-guns-equal-less-crime-part-mmmccxliii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35476","title":{"rendered":"More Guns Equal Less Crime: Part MMMCCXLIII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago, Colorado Springs University had a bit of a sexual assault problem.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2003, they legalized concealed carry for permitted adults on campus.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/frontpagemag.com\/2013\/dgreenfield\/sexual-assaults-fell-90-after-colorado-springs-university-legalized-campus-guns\/\">what do you suppose happened<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since then, according to Students for Concealed Carry, the number of forcible and non-forcible sexual assaults dropped sharply, falling 90 percent from a high in 2002 to a new low in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/c481901.r1.cf2.rackcdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/BDgCX7DCcAAJQpv-450x347.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"347\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;This is a big surprise&#8221; said nobody who follows this issue, ever.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While Colorado Democrat Joe Salazar suggested that women could not be trusted to carry guns on campus because they might not know when they\u2019re being raped, a young woman who was raped on campus because she was not allowed to carry a firearm, despite having a permit, has said otherwise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing. \u00a0The rape survivor&#8217;s narrative digs at the idea of passive resistance, and even police presence, as legitimate deterrants to sexual assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago, Colorado Springs University had a bit of a sexual assault problem. Back in 2003, they legalized concealed carry for permitted adults on campus. And what do you suppose happened? Since then, according to Students for Concealed Carry, the number of forcible and non-forcible sexual assaults dropped sharply, falling 90 percent from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35476"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35484,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35476\/revisions\/35484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}