{"id":454,"date":"2007-04-20T10:53:14","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T15:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=454"},"modified":"2007-04-20T10:53:14","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T15:53:14","slug":"thomas-jefferson-on-gun-free-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Jefferson on Gun-Free Zones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.patriotpost.us\/pub\/07-16_Digest\/\">The Patriot Post<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\" color=\"black\">In his <em>Commonplace Book<\/em>, Jefferson quotes Cesare Beccaria from his seminal work, <em>On Crimes and Punishment<\/em>: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Laws that forbid the carrying of arms&#8230; disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes&#8230; Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\" color=\"black\"> The same can be said of so-called <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/webmail.ppcnet.com\/exchweb\/bin\/redir.asp?URL=http:\/\/PatriotShop.US\/GunFreeHousehold\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153gun-free zones\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: The Patriot Post In his Commonplace Book, Jefferson quotes Cesare Beccaria from his seminal work, On Crimes and Punishment: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Laws that forbid the carrying of arms&#8230; disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes&#8230; Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}