{"id":195,"date":"2025-02-20T00:29:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T00:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=195"},"modified":"2025-09-27T21:41:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:41:31","slug":"ny-times-newest-gun-owners-upending-preconceptions-as-to-who-buys-a-gun-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"NY Times: &#8220;Newest gun owners upending preconceptions as to who buys a gun and why&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Full Disclosure: I don&#39;t own a gun.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Five different people with different backgrounds &#8211; you should be able to access the whole story. It is mentioned that 70% of gun owners by a gun for self-defense. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vip11GjFftI?si=6VVPCsliZd_nV1ey&quot; title=&quot;YouTube video player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\">In hours of conversations with New York Times journalists, these five Americans shared deeply individual reasons for their leaps into gun ownership. But there were also common threads: new fears about political violence and hate crimes, and a diminished trust in law enforcement. Most said they had been surprised by how much they enjoyed learning to shoot, and improving their skills. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full Disclosure: I don&#39;t own a gun. Five different people with different backgrounds &#8211; you should be able to access the whole story. It is mentioned that 70% of gun owners by a gun for self-defense. In hours of conversations with New York Times journalists, these five Americans shared deeply individual reasons for their leaps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7024,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/7024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}