{"id":18141,"date":"2012-12-19T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=18141"},"modified":"2012-12-17T16:15:14","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T21:15:14","slug":"guns-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/12\/19\/guns-for-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Guns for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s an American tradition. \u00a0In fact, FBI data on background checks suggests that more guns were given as Christmas gifts last year than any previous year (source<\/a>). \u00a0One-and-a-half million background checks were ordered in December 2011, more than any other month in American history. \u00a0Data from 2012 shows another uptick<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Notably, these data represent an increase in the number of guns at the same time as we see a decrease in the number of gun owners<\/a>. \u00a0“[F]ewer and fewer people are owning more and more guns,\u201d explained\u00a0Caroline Brewer, representing the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s an American tradition. \u00a0In fact, FBI data on background checks suggests that more guns were given as Christmas gifts last year than any previous year (source). \u00a0One-and-a-half million background checks were ordered in December 2011, more than any other month in American history. \u00a0Data from 2012 shows another uptick. Notably, these data represent an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[254,129,23703,250],"class_list":["post-18141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-holidays","tag-media","tag-marketing","tag-guns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18141"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53078,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18141\/revisions\/53078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}