{"id":423,"date":"2003-11-02T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-02T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=423"},"modified":"2018-08-09T10:00:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T15:00:44","slug":"423","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/02\/423\/","title":{"rendered":"An Englishman Weighs In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim du Toit has posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimdutoit.com\/dr\/weblog.php?id=P2316\" target=\"_new\">letter from an Englishman<\/a> who&#8217;s becoming an American and wants to buy his first gun.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a note to Ozaukee County Sheriff Maury Straub, who is doesn&#8217;t know anyone who&#8217;s ever had to protect his or her life with deadly force:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Violent crime in the UK is about 4 times higher than in the US. The conclusion I have come to is that&#8217;s because of guns (I really, really, kept an open mind about the good\/bad things about guns). In the adult years I was in England, (18 to 27, a total of 9 years):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>my house was burgled 3 times (the third time, my room mate was severely beaten, because he was home)\n<li>my car was broken into twice\n<li>car stolen once\n<li>and I was assaulted twice.<\/ul>\n<p><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The writer of this letter never had to protect himself with a gun either <i>because it wasn&#8217;t an option<\/i>.  Hopefully, soon, in Wisconsin and Missouri it will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim du Toit has posted a letter from an Englishman who&#8217;s becoming an American and wants to buy his first gun. Here&#8217;s a note to Ozaukee County Sheriff Maury Straub, who is doesn&#8217;t know anyone who&#8217;s ever had to protect his or her life with deadly force: Violent crime in the UK is about 4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22172,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/22172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}