{"id":305,"date":"2014-10-23T20:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T01:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conservativelefty.wordpress.com\/?p=305"},"modified":"2014-10-23T20:00:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T01:00:52","slug":"guns-are-driving-americans-to-distraction-and-worse-a-survey-of-the-news-businessweek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"Guns Are Driving Americans to Distraction, and Worse: A Survey of the News &#8211; Businessweek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/jefferson-on-guns1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-88\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/jefferson-on-guns1.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Jefferson on guns\" width=\"300\" height=\"82\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/jefferson-on-guns1.jpg 490w, http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/jefferson-on-guns1-300x83.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2014-10-20\/guns-are-driving-americans-to-distraction-and-worse-a-survey-of-the-news\">Guns Are Driving Americans to Distraction, and Worse: A Survey of the News &#8211; Businessweek<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most fundamental error you make is referring to a gun\u00a0<em>subculture<\/em> in America. \u00a0We do\u00a0<strong><em>not<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0have a subculture of guns here. \u00a0There are some 300 million guns. \u00a0Half the adult population is armed. \u00a0That is not a\u00a0<strong>sub<\/strong>culture. \u00a0At those numbers, guns are the mainstream, rank-and-file American culture and ethos.<\/p>\n<p>The war against guns is not against political entities or corporations. \u00a0It is a war against the heart and soul of America. \u00a0And that is why the gun controllers will continue to lose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guns Are Driving Americans to Distraction, and Worse: A Survey of the News &#8211; Businessweek Perhaps the most fundamental error you make is referring to a gun\u00a0subculture in America. \u00a0We do\u00a0not\u00a0have a subculture of guns here. \u00a0There are some 300 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=305\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[18,22,49,50,71,100,106,111,115],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-second-amendment","tag-mda","tag-tcot","tag-culture-2","tag-culture-war","tag-guns","tag-politics-2","tag-progressives","tag-second-amendment","tag-tea-party"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yCHs-4V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}