{"id":74164,"date":"2020-05-18T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74164"},"modified":"2020-07-29T08:04:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:04:53","slug":"confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74164","title":{"rendered":"Confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div id=\":1rk\" class=\"a3s aXjCH \">\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When people have confidence in the ability and willingness of the government to protect them, they don&#8217;t buy guns to protect themselves. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/washington-secrets\/record-gun-sales-for-second-month-over-7-million-this-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/washington-secrets\/record-gun-sales-for-second-month-over-7-million-this-year&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1589805834130000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHWaUiTTJCTKlLKhtZjtgMHV019LQ\">Second straight month of record gun sales<\/a>.\u00a0 Forget what they tell the poll takers on the phone &#8211; what does that sales figure tell us about the public&#8217;s confidence in the local officials they formerly trusted? <\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>But&#8230;I&#8217;m toldthe polling numbers are stellar&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people have confidence in the ability and willingness of the government to protect them, they don&#8217;t buy guns to protect themselves. Second straight month of record gun sales.\u00a0 Forget what they tell the poll takers on the phone &#8211; what does that sales figure tell us about the public&#8217;s confidence in the local officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,51],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-74164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-liberal-tyranny","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74164","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=74164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74165,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74164\/revisions\/74165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}