{"id":60010,"date":"2016-08-22T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60010"},"modified":"2016-08-21T23:51:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T04:51:01","slug":"circus-without-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60010","title":{"rendered":"Circus Without Bread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuela, awash in the inevitable end results of socialism \u2013 Shortages, hyper inflation, out of control corruption in crime \u2013 is doing put failed leftist governments from Baltimore to Minneapolis\u00a0to Caracas always do; playing at security theater. In this case, <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.reuters.com\/article\/idUSKCN10S2I9\">destroying gun<\/a>s:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said the event marked the renewal of efforts to disarm Venezuelans, through a combination of seizures and a voluntary program to swap guns for electrical goods.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela has the world&#8217;s second highest murder rate and the street gangs that plague its poor neighborhoods have become increasingly heavily armed in recent years, at a time when a deep recession has reduced resources available to police.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Reduced resources\u2026&#8221;. &#8220;Recession&#8221;.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know Who Venezuela is trying to suck up to you, but it&#8217;s kind of funny\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gangs often get weapons from the police, either by stealing them or buying them from corrupt officers, experts say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Clearly, they&#8217;ve got that part solved\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuela, awash in the inevitable end results of socialism \u2013 Shortages, hyper inflation, out of control corruption in crime \u2013 is doing put failed leftist governments from Baltimore to Minneapolis\u00a0to Caracas always do; playing at security theater. In this case, destroying guns: Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said the event marked the renewal of efforts to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60010","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=60010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60016,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60010\/revisions\/60016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}