{"id":4117,"date":"2023-02-08T04:47:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T04:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/?p=4117"},"modified":"2023-02-08T04:55:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T04:55:30","slug":"gun-control-laws-in-california-are-backfiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/?p=4117","title":{"rendered":"Gun Control Laws in California are Backfiring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California&#8217;s excessively strict anti-gun laws have led to mass shootings being several times more frequent in the state than in states with more gun-friendly laws, where about half the mass shooting attempts are being stopped by lawfully armed regular citizens with carry permits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Contrast, After a Jan. 27 mass public shooting in Israel left seven people dead, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/israel-expedite-gun-licenses-deadly-shooting-near-jerusalem-synagogue\">declared<\/a>: \u201cFirearm licensing will be expedited and expanded in order to enable thousands of additional citizens to carry weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearwire.com\/articles\/2023\/02\/03\/gun_control_laws_backfiring_in_california_148811.html\">https:\/\/www.realclearwire.com\/articles\/2023\/02\/03\/gun_control_laws_backfiring_in_california_148811.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California&#8217;s excessively strict anti-gun laws have led to mass shootings being several times more frequent in the state than in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-archive"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4119,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions\/4119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}