{"id":18340,"date":"2012-12-22T15:27:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T20:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=18340"},"modified":"2012-12-22T15:27:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T20:27:34","slug":"rowan-williams-calls-for-more-gun-control-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/rowan-williams-calls-for-more-gun-control-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowan Williams calls for more gun control in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/news\/Archbishop+Canterbury+Rowan+Williams+backs+control+says\/7737438\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The leader of the world&#8217;s 80 million-strong Anglican Communion has thrown his support behind stricter gun control in the U.S., saying the easy availability of powerful weapons drew vulnerable people toward violence.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;.]<\/p>\n<p>Turning to the issue of gun control, Williams said: &#8220;People use guns but, in a sense, guns use people too. When we have the technology for violence easily to hand, our choices are skewed and we are more vulnerable to being manipulated into violent action.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If Rowan Williams is right and \u201cguns use people\u201d then, if the citizens of the U.S. are completely disarmed and only the police and armed forces have guns, only the police and armed forces will be \u201cvulnerable to being manipulated into violent action\u201d, potentially leaving ordinary citizens at their mercy.<\/p>\n<p>If Williams is right &#8211; and I&#8217;m not sure he is &#8211; that\u2019s a good reason why U.S. citizens should not be disarmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: The leader of the world&#8217;s 80 million-strong Anglican Communion has thrown his support behind stricter gun control in the U.S., saying the easy availability of powerful weapons drew vulnerable people toward violence. [&#8230;.] Turning to the issue of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/rowan-williams-calls-for-more-gun-control-in-the-u-s\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[832,2241],"class_list":["post-18340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rowan-williams","tag-gun-control","tag-rowan-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}