{"id":25918,"date":"2011-07-20T09:10:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T13:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=25918"},"modified":"2011-07-20T09:32:21","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T13:32:21","slug":"threat-of-gun-not-laws-saved-man-on-capitol-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25918","title":{"rendered":"Threat of gun, not laws saved man on Capitol Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy LaSalvia of GOProud, the gay conservative organization, was riding his bicycle on Capitol Hill last week when he was confronted by a gang of youths. When LaSalvia reached in his backpack for his phone, that action made them think he was reaching for a gun and scared them off;<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.foxbusiness.com\/v\/embed.js?id=1066252273001&#038;w=466&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxbusiness.com\">video.foxbusiness.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>The story rings true to me because I&#8217;ve been confronted by youth gangs in DC when I used to ride my bicycle to work daily through some pretty rough neighborhoods. My only option was to peddle faster when I saw the gangs get interested in my bicycle which worked for the most part. Of course, everyone is a target in DC since non-criminals aren&#8217;t carrying guns outside their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Old Trooper for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy LaSalvia of GOProud, the gay conservative organization, was riding his bicycle on Capitol Hill last &hellip; <a title=\"Threat of gun, not laws saved man on Capitol Hill\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25918\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Threat of gun, not laws saved man on Capitol Hill<\/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-25918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25918","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=25918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}