{"id":32008,"date":"2012-03-06T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/nearly-half-of-women-are-killed-with-guns\/"},"modified":"2012-03-06T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T01:43:56","slug":"nearly-half-of-women-are-killed-with-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2012\/03\/06\/nearly-half-of-women-are-killed-with-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly half of women are killed with guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The murder rate of women in the Dominican Republic is a cause for national shame, and the National Statistics Office (ONE) reports that nearly half (46%) are murdered with handguns. In a report in El Caribe, ONE also seems to suggest that large numbers of people are armed, either legally or illegally, despite all the controls in the country. The statistics cover a five-year period &#8211; 2005-2010 &#8211; and record accidental and violent deaths. The numbers show 923 murders of women over the period, 46.2% of which were committed with firearms and 30% with knives. Psychiatrist Cesar Mella commented that &#8220;the use and abuse of firearms has been present in a considerable number of violent deaths, suicides and homicides&#8230;&#8221; The Ministry of the Interior and Police has over 156,000 pistols, 23,000 revolvers and 23,000 shotguns on its register.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The murder rate of women in the Dominican Republic is a cause for national shame, and the National Statistics Office (ONE) reports that nearly half (46%) are murdered with handguns. In a report in El Caribe, ONE also seems to suggest that large numbers of people are armed, either legally or illegally, despite all the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2012\/03\/06\/nearly-half-of-women-are-killed-with-guns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[231,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}