{"id":2913,"date":"2009-11-08T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/i-dont-feel-the-least-bit-safer-quite-the-opposite\/"},"modified":"2009-11-08T12:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T19:57:00","slug":"i-dont-feel-the-least-bit-safer-quite-the-opposite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/i-dont-feel-the-least-bit-safer-quite-the-opposite\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don&rsquo;t Feel the Least Bit Safer &ndash; Quite the Opposite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"A run on bullets | StarTribune.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/69003682.html?elr=KArksDyycyUtyycyUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU\">A run on bullets | StarTribune.com<\/a>&#160; <br \/><b>By DAVID A. FAHRENTHOLD and FREDRICK KUNKLE ,<\/b> Washington Post<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Gun owners have bought about <strong>12 billion rounds of ammunition in the past year<\/strong>, industry officials estimate. That&#8217;s up from 7 billion to 10 billion in a recent years.<\/p>\n<p>The explanation for the run on bullets lies partly in economics: Once rounds were scarce, people hoarded them, which made them scarcer.<\/p>\n<p>But the rush for bullets, like this year&#8217;s increase in gun sales, also says something about how suspicious the two sides in the gun-control debate are of each other, even at a time when the issue is on Washington&#8217;s back burner.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/69003682.html?elr=KArksDyycyUtyycyUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU\">A run on bullets | StarTribune.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A run on bullets | StarTribune.com&#160; By DAVID A. FAHRENTHOLD and FREDRICK KUNKLE , Washington Post Gun owners have bought about 12 billion rounds of ammunition in the past year, industry officials estimate. That&#8217;s up from 7 billion to 10 billion in a recent years. The explanation for the run on bullets lies partly in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/i-dont-feel-the-least-bit-safer-quite-the-opposite\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Don&rsquo;t Feel the Least Bit Safer &ndash; Quite the Opposite<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}