{"id":509,"date":"2008-03-20T06:58:34","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T11:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=509"},"modified":"2008-03-20T06:58:34","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T11:58:34","slug":"dc-gun-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=509","title":{"rendered":"D.C. Gun Ban."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I am understanding things correctly, it is against the law for the average citizen to own a handgun in Washington D.C. .  Now, I am not talking about carrying a concealed gun, I am talking about having a handgun in your own home.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, those with diplomatic immunity and law enforcement agents are allowed to carry handguns.   And citizens are allowed to own rifles and shot guns, but not hand guns.  As one protester pointed out, &#8220;when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With one of the highest crime rates of any city in the US, I guess only criminals have handguns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I am understanding things correctly, it is against the law for the average citizen to own a handgun in Washington D.C. . Now, I am not talking about carrying a concealed gun, I am talking about having a handgun &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=509\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20gJN-8d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}