{"id":6665,"date":"2012-07-23T21:24:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T04:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=6665"},"modified":"2012-07-23T21:24:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T04:24:13","slug":"the-best-laws-inspire-the-law-abiding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2012\/07\/23\/the-best-laws-inspire-the-law-abiding\/","title":{"rendered":"The best laws inspire the law-abiding."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Shafer on <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2012\/07\/would-tougher-gun-control-laws-have-any-effect.html\">the limits<\/a> of gun-control legislation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As Noel Perrin wrote in <em>Giving Up the Gun: Japan\u2019s Reversion to the Sword, 1543-1879<\/em>, cultures can change their violent ways, but building such a cultural consensus takes more effort and persuasion that just passing new gun-control laws.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, but passing new gun-control legislation does a great deal to advance that cultural consensus.  By defining guns \u2013\u00a0and some more than others \u2013 as dangerous and problematic, we impact cultural norms as well as individual behavior. Laws not only exist to punish law-breakers but to inspire the law-abiding; they provide a template for how we want to live. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Shafer on the limits of gun-control legislation: As Noel Perrin wrote in Giving Up the Gun: Japan\u2019s Reversion to the Sword, 1543-1879, cultures can change their violent ways, but building such a cultural consensus takes more effort and persuasion that just passing new gun-control laws. Yes, but passing new gun-control legislation does a great&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}