{"id":60193,"date":"2016-09-06T05:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T10:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60193"},"modified":"2016-09-05T22:06:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T03:06:42","slug":"imbalance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60193","title":{"rendered":"Imbalance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes emails us a link to a post by Clayton Cramer, who compares murder rates in Idaho and western Canada:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/ucr.fbi.gov\/crime-in-the-u.s\/2014\/crime-in-the-u.s.-2014\/tables\/table-4\">Idaho<\/a>: 2.0\/100,000<\/p>\n<p>For <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statcan.gc.ca\/tables-tableaux\/sum-som\/l01\/cst01\/legal12b-eng.htm\">the Canadian province<\/a>s:<br \/>\nManitoba: 3.43<br \/>\nSaskatechewan: 2.13<br \/>\nAlberta: 2.52<br \/>\nYukon: 6.88<br \/>\nNunavut: 10.93<\/p>\n<p>Yet all those provinces have Canada&#8217;s restrictive gun control laws.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alhough, at least anecdotally, people in Saskatchewan and Alberta were the least obedient to Canada&#8217;s gun control laws when they were passed.<\/p>\n<p>But I digress:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Idaho at that point had a shall-issue concealed weapon license law (now, \u00a0no licenses are required).\u00a0 I can buy a gun without background check or waiting period, either at a licensed dealer or a gun show.\u00a0 Friends own machine guns, completely legally.\u00a0 Idaho is very similar demographically to\u00a0Saskatechewan,\u00a0Alberta, and\u00a0Manitoba.\u00a0 If gun availability or porous borders make , Idaho should be substantially worse than those Canadian provinces, not better.\u00a0 Of course the gun control nuts don&#8217;t care about murder rates; this is really about cultural disparagement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And cultural conquest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes emails us a link to a post by Clayton Cramer, who compares murder rates in Idaho and western Canada: Idaho: 2.0\/100,000 For the Canadian provinces: Manitoba: 3.43 Saskatechewan: 2.13 Alberta: 2.52 Yukon: 6.88 Nunavut: 10.93 Yet all those provinces have Canada&#8217;s restrictive gun control laws. Alhough, at least anecdotally, people in Saskatchewan 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":[45,51,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-free-zones","category-liberal-tyranny","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60193","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=60193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60194,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60193\/revisions\/60194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}