{"id":783,"date":"2010-03-25T08:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T08:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=783"},"modified":"2010-03-25T08:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T08:24:00","slug":"gun-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=783","title":{"rendered":"Gun law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very disturbing article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/34714389\/ns\/us_news-life\">here <\/a>about an incident in the US where a robber is killed by the person he was trying to rob. I don&#8217;t have a problem with i) a man being armed or even (in theory) ii) shooting in self-defense, especially if in a home (or something like a home). I do have a problem with the robber being shot twice from behind when he was trying to run away. That just seems like murder to me.<\/p>\n<p>NB South Carolina&#8217;s &#8216;castle doctrine&#8217; seems like an echo of Exodus 22.2: &#8220;If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.&#8221;<br \/><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very disturbing article here about an incident in the US where a robber is killed by the person he was trying to rob. I don&#8217;t have a problem with i) a man being armed or even (in theory) ii) shooting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=783\">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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-violence"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-cD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}