{"id":3039,"date":"2012-08-19T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/08\/19\/ben-stein-on-need-for-gun-controlor-no\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:19:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:19:19","slug":"ben-stein-on-need-for-gun-controlor-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3039","title":{"rendered":"Ben Stein On The Need For Gun Control&#8230;Or Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15289,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/claytonecramer.blogspot.com\\\/search\\\/label\\\/mental%20illness&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Economist, lawyer, and actor Ben Stein provides an occasional editorial comment on CBS&#8217;s Sunday Morning. Today&#8217;s topic was gun control. Contrary to what one usually gets on guns from the mainstream media, this was actually good.<\/p>\n<p>Stein felt the calls for more gun control as well as the attempts to demonize the NRA are misplaced. He pointed out that in places like Chicago, LA, and DC which have strong gun control laws there are many more shootings than in a place like northern Idaho where carrying guns is quite common. While Stein is not sure what the correct answer is, gun control isn&#8217;t it.<\/p>\n<p>\nWe know that gun control is a failure and that it will never stop madmen. If we want to prevent the aberrant shootings like Virginia Tech and Aurora, Colorado, I think the answer lies in the mental health realm. This is what <a href=\"http:\/\/claytonecramer.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/mental%20illness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clayton Cramer has been saying for a while now<\/a> and I think he is correct.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economist, lawyer, and actor Ben Stein provides an occasional editorial comment on CBS&#8217;s Sunday Morning. Today&#8217;s topic was gun&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[766,2062,2302,45,2767],"class_list":["post-3039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ben-stein","tag-cbs-news","tag-clayton-cramer","tag-gun-control","tag-mental-illness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8280,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions\/8280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}