{"id":7467,"date":"2013-03-07T09:35:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T14:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=7467"},"modified":"2013-03-07T09:42:55","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T14:42:55","slug":"as-gun-debate-goes-on-2500-more-gun-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2013\/03\/07\/as-gun-debate-goes-on-2500-more-gun-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"As gun debate goes on, 2500 more gun deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7468\" style=\"width: 234px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2013\/03\/07\/as-gun-debate-goes-on-2500-more-gun-deaths\/gun-sign-webster-new-york\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7468\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7468\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7468\" title=\"gun sign webster new york\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/03\/gun-sign-webster-new-york-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/03\/gun-sign-webster-new-york-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/03\/gun-sign-webster-new-york-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/03\/gun-sign-webster-new-york-336x450.jpg 336w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/03\/gun-sign-webster-new-york.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7468\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign posted in Webster, NY, where a mentally ill man attacked firefighters. Photo from WXXI<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This morning, we reported on the growing activism in the North Country that aims to repeal New York&#8217;s SAFE Act, passed in January.<\/p>\n<p>Some really strong and passionate arguments are being made in favor of rolling back the law, which was inspired by the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut and Webster, New York.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, here&#8217;s an update on gun fatalties in the US since Newtown:\u00a0 2,506 gun fatalities.\u00a0 That&#8217;s after Sandy Hook.<\/p>\n<p>Out of that tally, 80 of the deaths are here in New York state and 43 of the fatalities were children.\u00a0 Again, that&#8217;s in three months, since December 12th of last year.<\/p>\n<p>Find the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/crime\/2012\/12\/gun_death_tally_every_american_gun_death_since_newtown_sandy_hook_shooting.html\">latest data from Slate here, along with a map and a search engine that allows you to data mine the statistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Comments welcome below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, we reported on the growing activism in the North Country that aims to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}