{"id":11631,"date":"2012-07-25T19:30:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T00:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=11631"},"modified":"2012-07-25T19:38:11","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T00:38:11","slug":"aurora-shootings-gun-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/07\/25\/aurora-shootings-gun-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Shootings &#038; Gun Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I posted the remarks of Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, I made no editorial comment.\u00a0 I realized that uproar people some people would cause if I were to mention something like gun control, so I refrained.<\/p>\n<p>I have been thinking how wrong that restraint was.\u00a0 I am not going to allow the NRA to abridge my First Amendment rights, so I won&#8217;t worry them about their Second Amendment rights.\u00a0 I like to think that there is a reason why the First Amendment comes before the Second Amendment.  If we don&#8217;t talk about the issue when something like this happens, when will we talk about it?  How dare the NRA try to intimidate us from talking about the issue?<\/p>\n<p>John Stewart tries a little humor about this serious subject.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center; padding:4px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:416815\" width=\"360\" height=\"293\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\" ><\/iframe><\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>If you are not privileged enough to be using a browser for which the above embedded video works, use the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:416815\" title=\"Bug workaround link to COmedy Central Video served by MTV.\" target=\"_blank\">direct link<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I posted the remarks of Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, I made no editorial comment.\u00a0 I realized that uproar people some people would cause if I were to mention something like gun control, so I refrained. I have been thinking how wrong that restraint was.\u00a0 I am not going to allow the NRA to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11631"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11638,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11631\/revisions\/11638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}