{"id":64737,"date":"2017-10-10T11:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64737"},"modified":"2017-10-10T20:41:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T01:41:13","slug":"an-inconvenient-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64737","title":{"rendered":"An Inconvenient Response"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times actually gets something about gun violence right<\/a>, in an article that almost belongs in a legitimate source of news.<\/p>\n

While the MSM – including the\u00a0NYTimes’\u00a0<\/em>own editorial page – is blubbering about the same old narrative driven gun grab schemes, none of which have ever affected or will ever affect crime, this piece notes that there are ideas that\u00a0have\u00a0<\/em>affected crime rates without gutting the civil liberties of the law-abiding:<\/p>\n

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In the 1990s, a highly effective gun violence reduction strategy\u00a0was developed\u00a0<\/a>in Boston by a group including law enforcement officers, researchers, and black clergy members. According to the National Institute of Justice, it resulted in a 63 percent reduction in the average monthly number of youth homicide victims in that city, an accomplishment that was called \u201cthe Boston Miracle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since then, variations of that strategy have been implemented in cities across the country. For example, according to a study by the Campbell Collaboration, a nonprofit organization that evaluates the effects of this type of intervention,\u00a0Stockton, Calif., saw a 42 percent reduction in its monthly count of gun homicides<\/a>in the first year of the strategy\u2019s implementation; similarly, Oakland, Calif., saw just under a 30 percent reduction. (In 2017, the city is on track to have its\u00a0second-lowest homicide rate in over 30 years.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course, for much of the “gun safety” movement, it’s not about solving crime; Diane Feinstein and Chuck Schumer care less about the lives of poor black and brown people than David Duke ever did.\u00a0 It’s about controlling society.<\/p>\n

But if you leave that out, it’s an excellent article, and well worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Times actually gets something about gun violence right, in an article that almost belongs in a legitimate source of news. While the MSM – including the\u00a0NYTimes’\u00a0own editorial page – is blubbering about the same old narrative driven gun grab schemes, none of which have ever affected or will ever affect crime, this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,308,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-culture-war","category-entitled-america","category-media","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64737","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=64737"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64767,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64737\/revisions\/64767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}