{"id":23580,"date":"2011-05-25T11:20:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T15:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23580"},"modified":"2011-05-25T11:20:45","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T15:20:45","slug":"brady-campaign-more-gun-laws-will-protect-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23580","title":{"rendered":"Brady Campaign: more gun laws will protect Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Helmke, CEO of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesfreepress.com\/news\/2011\/may\/18\/3-ways-control-gun-violence-says-brady-campaign-ce\/\">laid out his vision for making Americans safer<\/a> from gun violence;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There need to be tougher gun laws, local law enforcement needs to be strengthened and there should be restrictions on civilian access to high-powered weapons with extended magazines&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Notice there&#8217;s nothing in that set of proposals which demand that courts and police enforce existing laws. There&#8217;s no money for the Brady Campaign in demanding that the Department of Justice and district attorneys prosecute criminals for breaking the laws. The Brady campaign can only raise money from contributors by scaring them into believing there need to be new laws. They&#8217;re lobbyists for a special interest&#8230;that&#8217;s what they do.<\/p>\n<p>And all of their proposals affect law abiding citizens, not criminals. Criminals will always get what they want, they don&#8217;t care about new laws. <\/p>\n<p>Helmke claims there are 32 gun-related deaths everyday, not mentioning that most of those deaths are criminals shooting each other. <\/p>\n<p>The same goes for John Rosenthal, founder of Stop Handgun Violence who is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2011\/05\/24\/billboard_targets_gun_violence_with_a_somber_new_message\/\">putting up a billboard on the Mass Turnpike<\/a> which will count the deaths of &#8220;children&#8221; by firearms. Most of the &#8220;children and teenagers&#8221; he&#8217;s counting are violent criminals who don&#8217;t feel a need to follow gun laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Helmke, CEO of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, laid out his vision for &hellip; <a title=\"Brady Campaign: more gun laws will protect Americans\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23580\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brady Campaign: more gun laws will protect Americans<\/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":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-grabbing-fascists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23580","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=23580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}