{"id":50310,"date":"2015-01-08T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50310"},"modified":"2015-01-08T10:10:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T16:10:04","slug":"paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50310","title":{"rendered":"Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On seeing the carnage in Paris, I thought &#8211; per usual &#8211; &#8220;good thing all of the civilians victims were unarmed and utterly helpless, or\u00a0<em>Mon Dieu\u00a0<\/em>knows how bad it could have been!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>France has, by continental standards, a fairly high rate of civilian gun ownership. \u00a0But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/2015\/01\/daniel-zimmerman\/mon-dieu-a-review-of-french-gun-laws\/\">civilian gun laws are as byzantine<\/a> as California and Washington DC, and for exactly the same reasons. \u00a0And the issuance civilian handgun carry permits to carry the kinds of firearms that might have been useful in Paris follows pretty much exactly the same rules as in DC, San Francisco and New York; available only to judges and prosecutors in high-profile cases, or people with enough political clout to sway the bureaucracy; politicians, plutocrats and celebrities with friends in high places. \u00a0That&#8217;s about it.<\/p>\n<p>The laws, byzantine though they are, didn&#8217;t prevent the attackers in Paris from getting fully-automatic Yugoslav-surplus AK47s, the kind that have been illegal in the US for eight decades now, of course. \u00a0Laws don&#8217;t stop law-breakers.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; yet again, thugs, criminals and terrorists launch attack on the disarmed.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a reason they don&#8217;t do these sorts of attacks in Dallas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On seeing the carnage in Paris, I thought &#8211; per usual &#8211; &#8220;good thing all of the civilians victims were unarmed and utterly helpless, or\u00a0Mon Dieu\u00a0knows how bad it could have been!&#8221; France has, by continental standards, a fairly high rate of civilian gun ownership. \u00a0But civilian gun laws are as byzantine as California and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50310","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=50310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50313,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50310\/revisions\/50313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}