{"id":1705,"date":"2008-05-20T09:04:28","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T13:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2008-05-20T09:04:28","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T13:04:28","slug":"aclu-consistency-ban-assault-weapons-from-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1705","title":{"rendered":"ACLU consistency; ban assault weapons from police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wjla.com\/news\/stories\/0508\/521206.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/vidcap_quaddriveby0519.jpg\" alt=\"vidcap_quaddriveby0519.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last night, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wjla.com\/news\/stories\/0508\/521206.html\" target=\"_blank\">four people were shot in Southeast DC <\/a>in a drive-by shooting by an attacker using a semi-automatic high power\u00a0 rifle. It comes at a time when the District is in the process of arming their police department with the same types of weapons. Despite the draconian gun laws in the District, <a href=\"http:\/\/mpdc.dc.gov\/mpdc\/cwp\/view,a,1239,q,561242,mpdcNav_GID,1523,mpdcNav,|.asp\" target=\"_blank\">nearly 3000 guns were recovered last year<\/a> from people arrested in DC and as last night&#8217;s shooting demonstrates, the Metro cops are in dangered of being outgunned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wusa9.com\/video\/player.aspx?aid=60702\" target=\"_blank\">CBS Channel 9 <\/a>did a report last night on the impending issuance of more powerful weapons to DC cops last night and they interviewed a member of the ACLU named Johnny Barnes whose concern is more with keeping with the District&#8217;s gun laws than the ability of the police to protect the public.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Mendelson, District council member, also expressed concerns about the asthetics of having a fully prepared police department. He complained that the question came down to whether we want our police force to look like a military force or a police force.<\/p>\n<p>It just highlights that the Left places more importances on appearances than safety &#8211; the same way they approach the discussion of war. How will it look to the rest of the world? Just like everything else, the Left is more concerned with the emotional aspect of the issue than the reality of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Last night, four people were shot in Southeast DC in a drive-by shooting by an &hellip; <a title=\"ACLU consistency; ban assault weapons from police\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1705\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ACLU consistency; ban assault weapons from police<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}