{"id":2982,"date":"2002-10-28T11:53:50","date_gmt":"2002-10-28T11:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=381"},"modified":"2002-10-28T11:53:50","modified_gmt":"2002-10-28T11:53:50","slug":"gun-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2982","title":{"rendered":"GUN REGULATION?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always believed that one of the key problems in our system of government is that we all confuse passing laws with making changes.<br \/>\nAs anyone who&#8217;s ever managed people knows, there&#8217;s a world of difference between sending memos (or policy and procedures documents) and changing employee behavior.<br \/>\nIt looks like the Beltway shooter&#8217;s gun was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwcn.com\/statenews\/washington\/stories\/NW_102602WABtacomagunshop.f9036f6c.html\" target=\"browser\">never really sold<\/a> (requires registration)&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>TACOMA, Wash. &#8211; Three days into the search of a Tacoma gun store, federal agents on Saturday were still trying to figure out how a rifle used in the Washington, D.C.-area sniper shootings got into the hands of suspect John Allen Muhammad.<br \/>\nThe .223-caliber Bushmaster arrived at Bull&#8217;s Eye Shooter Supply in June, but no record has been found indicating it was sold, said Richard Van Loan, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent involved in the search. Gun dealers are required to keep such records.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No kidding.<br \/>\nHere we have what appears to be a major breakdown in the <u>existing systems<\/u> designed to keep guns out of the hands of proven violent nutjobs.<br \/>\nI kinda hate to echo the NRA (except when I think they&#8217;re correct), but <b>maybe we should spend some effort on figuring out how to enforce the laws we have before we burn a lot of midnight oil figuring out new ones?<\/b><br \/>\nJust a thought.<br \/>\n(Link thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/quasipundit.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"browser\">QuasiPundit<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always believed that one of the key problems in our system of government is that we all confuse passing laws with making changes. As anyone who&#8217;s ever managed people knows, there&#8217;s a world of difference between sending memos (or policy and procedures documents) and changing employee behavior. It looks like the Beltway shooter&#8217;s gun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}