{"id":220018,"date":"2026-04-16T07:48:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=220018"},"modified":"2026-04-16T07:48:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:48:01","slug":"the-real-reason-americans-love-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=220018","title":{"rendered":"The Real Reason Americans Love Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beverly Gologorsky<\/p>\n<p>With a weak social safety net, a gun offers a false sense of personal power and security.<\/p>\n<p>The post The Real Reason Americans Love Guns appeared first on The Nation&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/society\/american-guns-social-security\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beverly Gologorsky With a weak social safety net, a gun offers a false sense of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220018-the-real-reason-americans-love-guns.jpg",1440,907,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220018-the-real-reason-americans-love-guns-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220018-the-real-reason-americans-love-guns-300x189.jpg",300,189,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220018-the-real-reason-americans-love-guns-768x484.jpg",640,403,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220018-the-real-reason-americans-love-guns-1024x645.jpg",640,403,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220018-the-real-reason-americans-love-guns.jpg",1440,907,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220018-the-real-reason-americans-love-guns.jpg",1440,907,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220018-the-real-reason-americans-love-guns-1024x645.jpg",1024,645,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220018-the-real-reason-americans-love-guns-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220018-the-real-reason-americans-love-guns-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/220019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}