{"id":10132,"date":"2020-08-13T14:48:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T14:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=10132"},"modified":"2020-10-02T14:28:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T14:28:36","slug":"minnpost-professor-lindsay-starck-shares-views-on-gun-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/13\/minnpost-professor-lindsay-starck-shares-views-on-gun-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"MinnPost: Professor Lindsay Starck Shares Views on Gun Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"MinnPost<\/a>MinnPost recently ran an opinion piece on gun violence by Lindsay Starck, assistant professor of English and associate director of Augsburg University\u2019s MFA program. In her August 13 commentary, <\/span>\u201cDefund the guns: They do not make us safer,\u201d<\/span><\/a> she notes that gun sales have gone up since people have been calling to defund the police and asks readers to reconsider the best ways to protect themselves. She points to findings that people are actually less safe when they bring guns into their homes. Instead she suggests that we \u201csupport community-led anti-violence programs that are proven to work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  MinnPost recently ran an opinion piece on gun violence by Lindsay Starck, assistant professor of English and associate director of Augsburg University\u2019s MFA program. In her August 13 commentary, \u201cDefund the guns: They do not make us safer,\u201d she notes that gun sales have gone up since people have been calling to defund the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10253,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10132\/revisions\/10253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}