{"id":264,"date":"2012-12-14T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/?p=264"},"modified":"2022-12-14T19:04:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T19:04:51","slug":"gun-buyback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"Gun Buyback"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here is the reality; the people who would turn in a gun for $100 are not the people that use them! Grandma or Grandpa may have found a gun in their house that their little knuckleheaded grandson hid that he had no intention of using anyway, a few <\/a>parents who are fed up with the madness in our community, AND a few people who HAVE ANOTHER GUN!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think about this \u2013 if I am a gun toting, streetwise, possibly drug selling kid out in the streets; why one earth would I give up my protection? That is just like asking me to stand butt ass naked on the corner for $100. With the climate the way it is right now in Evanston, there is no way the people who would use a gun are giving them up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secondly, are we that na\u00efve to think that $100 means anything to people who are out on the streets \u201chustling\u201d? These kids believe they are in a war in the middle of a war zone and with that mindset there is NO chance that they would give up their weapon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wake up people!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is the reality; the people who would turn in a gun for $100 are not the people that use them! Grandma or Grandpa…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","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":[14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants-and-raves","category-society"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}