{"id":25872,"date":"2011-07-17T18:55:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T22:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=25872"},"modified":"2011-07-17T19:47:25","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T23:47:25","slug":"congressman-saves-family-from-home-invasion-with-a-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25872","title":{"rendered":"Congressman saves family from home invasion with a gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott sends us an article from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20110717\/NEWS01\/110717001\/Iowa-congressman-Leonard-Boswell-family-safe-after-home-invasion-Lamoni-farm\">the DesMoine Register<\/a> about Leonard Boswell, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boswell.house.gov\/\">the representative from Iowa&#8217;s third district<\/a>, who responded to his daughter&#8217;s screams and found a home invader. As the 77-year-old scuffled with the intruder, his grandson brandished a shotgun which scared the coward away.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His spokesman Grant Woodard said the whole family is safe and unhurt, aside from some scrapes and bruises.<\/p>\n<p>The family is shaken up, but &#8220;they&#8217;re dealing with it pretty well,&#8221; Woodard said Sunday morning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What you won&#8217;t read in the Register or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/07\/17\/leonard-boswell-iowa-armed-intruder_n_900919.html\">Huffington Pos<\/a>t, for that matter, is that, unlike most of his Democrat colleagues, Boswell has been <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.desmoinesregister.com\/dmr\/index.php\/2010\/10\/04\/boswell-gets-nra-endorsement-in-3rd-district-race\/\">endorsed by the National Rifle Association<\/a> for his sterling record on the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you join This Ain&#8217;t Hell in wishing Congressman Boswell and his family our best and our thanks for supporting all Americans who have to defend their homes. I doubt we&#8217;ll hear as much about this incident as we will about Comgresswoman Gabrielle Gifford while the Obama Administration rolls out their plan for gun control legislation in the coming weeks&#8230;but at least you know&#8230;and you&#8217;re aware of an experienced ally among Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott sends us an article from the DesMoine Register about Leonard Boswell, the representative from Iowa&#8217;s &hellip; <a title=\"Congressman saves family from home invasion with a gun\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25872\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congressman saves family from home invasion with a gun<\/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":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25872","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=25872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}