{"id":395238,"date":"2019-02-05T17:33:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T16:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/crime-news-favors-armed-citizens\/"},"modified":"2019-02-05T17:33:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T16:33:07","slug":"crime-news-favors-armed-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/crime-news-favors-armed-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime News Favors Armed Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>As the government seeks to regulate guns further and make it increasingly more expensive and cumbersome to legally own a gun, armed citizens spent the first month of 2019 proving weapons of any kind are basic human rights. Any regulation of a citizen\u2019s defense weapon should be seen as a human rights violation: and their rights are being destroyed by their own government.<\/p>\n<p>But many enjoy taking basic human rights away from others and won\u2019t stop until we are all wholly enslaved to the political elites. Whether these people are useful idiots or misguided illogical immoral fools is really the only debate left.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2019\/02\/01\/a-month-of-crime-news-provides-evidence-in-favor-of-armed-civilians\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to\u00a0<em>The Daily Signa<\/em><\/a><em>l<\/em>, gun ownership surveys routinely find that about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewsocialtrends.org\/2017\/06\/22\/the-demographics-of-gun-ownership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1 in 3 American adults\u00a0<\/a>personally own firearms, meaning that tens of millions of law-abiding citizens regularly choose to exercise their Second Amendment rights. Recent surveys also indicate that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/1645\/guns.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">60 percent<\/a>\u00a0of these gun owners possess firearms primarily to protect themselves and others from crime.<span class=\"amazon-element-wrapper-custom align-right\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-med-image\"><span class=\"amazon-image-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Own-Gun-Stay-Jail\/dp\/0964286459?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=0964286459\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51DSLh4qbAL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"amazon-image amazon-image-medium\"\/><\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-title\"><span class=\"appip-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Own-Gun-Stay-Jail\/dp\/0964286459?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=0964286459\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">How to Own a Gun &amp; Sta&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-author\">John F. Machtinger<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-lowest-used\"><span class=\"appip-lowest-used\"><span class=\"appip-label label-lowest-used\">Best Price: <\/span>$1.00<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-formatted-price\"><span class=\"appip-formatted-price\"><span class=\"appip-label label-formatted-price\">Buy New <\/span>$68.99<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-disclaimer-new\"><span style=\"display:block;color:#888;font-size: .80em; padding: 0 0 3px 0;\">(as of 02:40 EST &#8211; <span style=\"cursor:pointer;\" title=\"Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date\/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on Amazon.com at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.\">Details<\/span>)<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-button\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/aws\/cart\/add.html?AssociateTag=lrc18-20&amp;SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;ASIN.1=0964286459&amp;Quantity.1=1\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/wp-content\/mu-plugins\/amazon-ad-link-lr\/img\/buy-from-tan.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A 2013 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention authorized by the Obama administration, in what proved to be a complete backfire for the anti-gun president, examined comprehensive studies of defensive gun use. It concluded that Americans use their firearms in defense of themselves or others between\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/cdc-study-use-firearms-self-defense-important-crime-deterrent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">500,000 and 3 million times<\/a>\u00a0every year.\u00a0The report also noted that studies \u201chave found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the whole reason the founding fathers wrote the second amendment down was to prevent any government from&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2019\/02\/mac-slavo\/crime-news-favors-armed-citizens-defense-of-life-liberty-and-property-are-basic-human-rights\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the government seeks to regulate guns further and make it increasingly more expensive and cumbersome to legally own a gun, armed citizens spent the first month of 2019 proving weapons of any kind are basic human rights. Any regulation of a citizen\u2019s defense weapon should be seen as a human rights violation: and their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-395238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}