{"id":672963,"date":"2010-02-23T11:20:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T16:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f81\/gun-control-ideology-die-39854\/"},"modified":"2010-02-23T11:20:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T16:20:16","slug":"gun-control-an-ideology-to-die-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/672963","title":{"rendered":"Gun control, an ideology to die for"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Posted: 02.23.10 01:29 AM<\/p>\n<p>It is a truism to say that there are many anti gun ideologues among our educational elites. But few are as honest as Doug Van Gorder &#8212; a math teacher at Brockton High School. He admits that he would rather lose a child than exercise his right to defend himself with a gun. In the wake of a recent school shooting, he wrote this in a Letter to the Editor of the Boston Globe.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nraila.org\/News\/Read\/InTheNews.aspx?ID=13441\" >http:\/\/www.nraila.org\/News\/Read\/InTheNews.aspx?ID=13441<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted: 02.23.10 01:29 AM It is a truism to say that there are many anti gun ideologues among our educational elites. But few are as honest as Doug Van Gorder &#8212; a math teacher at Brockton High School. He admits that he would rather lose a child than exercise his right to defend himself with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2752,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2P4f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2752"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}