{"id":427,"date":"2009-05-26T10:01:01","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T14:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=427"},"modified":"2009-05-26T10:01:01","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T14:01:01","slug":"gun-crime-drops-in-dc-post-heller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/rkba\/gun-crime-drops-in-dc-post-heller\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun Crime drops in D.C. post Heller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/03\/14\/AR2009031401564.html\">violent crimes committed by criminals with illegally obtained firearms has dropped since Washington, D.C.&#8217;s draconian anti-Civil Rights handgun ban was overturned<\/a> should not be a surprise to anyone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/polyticks\/RKBA\/rkba.html\">who actually studied the subject<\/a>.<br \/>\nFrom the Washington Post Article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The D.C. police department\u2019s aggressive gun recovery efforts and the office of the attorney general\u2019s coordinated emphasis on prosecuting gun-related crimes are showing strong results: In the past year, robberies with guns have decreased 12 percent; assaults with guns have decreased 14 percent; and overall violent crime has decreased by 5 percent in the District.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmmm&#8230;punishing the criminals and not the law abiding citizens seems to have a positive effect on society.  Funny how the far left just can&#8217;t seem to grok that concept.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saysuncle.com\/2009\/05\/26\/post-heller-and-gun-crime\/\">HT to Say Uncle<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/instapundit\/79084\/\">Mr. Reynolds<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That violent crimes committed by criminals with illegally obtained firearms has dropped since Washington, D.C.&#8217;s draconian anti-Civil Rights handgun ban was overturned should not be a surprise to anyone who actually studied the subject. From the Washington Post Article: The D.C. police department\u2019s aggressive gun recovery efforts and the office of the attorney general\u2019s coordinated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[208,406,660,704],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba","tag-civil-rights","tag-human-rights","tag-rkba","tag-second-amendment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-6T","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}