{"id":21762,"date":"2014-07-14T15:40:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T19:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21762"},"modified":"2014-07-14T15:45:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T19:45:24","slug":"olivia-chow-vows-that-only-criminals-will-own-handguns-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/olivia-chow-vows-that-only-criminals-will-own-handguns-in-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Chow vows that only criminals will own handguns in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunnewsnetwork.ca\/sunnews\/politics\/archives\/2014\/07\/20140714-141932.html\" target=\"_blank\">words<\/a> to that effect, since we all know perfectly well that although the mayor of Toronto may be able to confiscate guns from law-abiding citizens, she is never going to prevent criminals obtaining them:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Olivia Chow came out Monday pledging to support a handgun ban if she&#8217;s elected mayor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no reason why anyone needs a handgun in a big city like ours,&#8221; Chow said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need better gun control. We have a mayor that for the last four years justified the use of guns, he opposed the long gun registry. What I want to do is work with big city mayors to tighten control so there is no illegal guns coming from the States.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or words to that effect, since we all know perfectly well that although the mayor of Toronto may be able to confiscate guns from law-abiding citizens, she is never going to prevent criminals obtaining them: Olivia Chow came out Monday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/olivia-chow-vows-that-only-criminals-will-own-handguns-in-toronto\/\">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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[833],"tags":[2293,1176,2274],"class_list":["post-21762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns","tag-guns","tag-olivia-chow","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21762","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=21762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}