{"id":34814,"date":"2013-04-23T09:53:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T13:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=34814"},"modified":"2013-04-23T09:55:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T13:55:11","slug":"does-banning-guns-increase-the-murder-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/04\/does-banning-guns-increase-the-murder-rate","title":{"rendered":"Does Banning Guns Increase The Murder Rate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>&#8220;After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn&#8217;t do it.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> &#8211; William S. Burroughs.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-32146\" title=\"guns\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/guns.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/guns.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/guns-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>With the gun debate raging in the United States, and crime proliferating rapidly in The Bahamas, the following statistics provided by the World Health Organization are an eye-opener.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/murder-rates-throughout-the-world\" target=\"_blank\">actual statistics<\/a> regarding the number of murders per 100,000 citizens in countries around the world\u00a0 goes against what many people believe.<\/p>\n<p>The gun-happy United States ranks at the bottom of the list<strong>, <\/strong>below all the countries that have gun bans for private citizens.<\/p>\n<p>BTW:\u00a0 The Bahamas ranks number 19 out of over 100 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamas ranks #19 for the number of murders per 100,000 citizens in a list of over 100 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[31,237,811],"class_list":["post-34814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-crime","tag-guns","tag-murder-rate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}