{"id":21410,"date":"2016-04-17T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/letter-more-guns-mean-more-gun-violence\/"},"modified":"2016-04-17T08:00:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T15:00:15","slug":"letter-more-guns-mean-more-gun-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/letter-more-guns-mean-more-gun-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: More guns mean more gun violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was disappointed to read your the Juneau Empire\u2019s editorial in support of the NRA legislation supporting guns on Alaska campuses. <\/p>\n<p>Please publish the evidence that arming more people in schools has prevented mass shootings. As a former prosecutor and defense attorney who learned enough about guns in the Marine Corps to know that they weren\u2019t for casual use, I have followed the news of shooting deaths in the U.S. for almost 50 years. I can not honestly remember when a \u201cgood guy\u201d with a gun prevented a shooting unless they shot first and asked questions later. In those cases, sadly, all too often the \u201cbad guy\u201d either didn\u2019t have a gun or was not a bad guy after all.<\/p>\n<p>More guns simply mean more gun violence. It is too bad our local paper can not support our local university\u2019s leaders and act with common sense when writing editorials on important subjects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dave Dierdorff,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Douglas<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was disappointed to read your the Juneau Empire\u2019s editorial in support of the NRA legislation supporting guns on Alaska campuses. Please publish the evidence that arming more people in schools has prevented mass shootings. As a former prosecutor and defense attorney who learned enough about guns in the Marine Corps to know that they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-21410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21410"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}