{"id":87441,"date":"2024-04-29T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87441"},"modified":"2024-04-26T09:07:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T14:07:58","slug":"crikey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87441","title":{"rendered":"Crikey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New Zealand&#8217;s government imposed draconian gun regulations in the wake of the 2019 Christchurch mosque massacre (which, let the record show, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70254\">would have been worse without a good guy with a gun<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Unexpectedly&#8221;<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/crimeresearch.org\/2024\/04\/new-zealands-violent-crime-rate-soars-by-33-after-strict-gun-control-regulations-imposed-in-wake-of-march-15-2019-mosque-massacre\/\">gang membership has skyrocketed, and gang-related shootings are up<\/a> by a third:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cOver the last five years gangs have recruited more than 3000 members, a 51 percent increase. At the same time, we\u2019ve seen a significant escalation in gang-related violence, public intimidation and shootings, with violent crime up 33 percent.\u201d says Mr Goldsmith.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>On the one hand, everything Jacinda Ardern touched turned to crap. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other &#8211; they <em>were <\/em>warned.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand&#8217;s government imposed draconian gun regulations in the wake of the 2019 Christchurch mosque massacre (which, let the record show, would have been worse without a good guy with a gun). &#8220;Unexpectedly&#8221;, gang membership has skyrocketed, and gang-related shootings are up by a third: \u201cOver the last five years gangs have recruited more than [&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-87441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87442,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87441\/revisions\/87442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}