{"id":31663,"date":"2012-08-19T20:27:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T00:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31663"},"modified":"2012-08-19T20:27:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T00:27:14","slug":"protest-in-dc-for-gun-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31663","title":{"rendered":"Protest in DC for gun rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2012\/aug\/17\/young-people-protest-gun-rights-front-dc-city-hall\/\">The Washington Times<\/a> reports that about 40 young residents of the Metro DC area protested in front of city hall this weekend for the right to carry concealed weapons in the wake of the media non-frenzy over Floyd Corkins raid on the Family research Council&#8217;s offices this past week.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mayor Vincent C. Gray has pledged to preserve the city\u2019s strict gun laws after the incident renewed debate about firearm safety in the city.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which makes perfect sense since Corkins brought the gun on the subway from Virginia. DC&#8217;s strict gun laws didn&#8217;t prevent Corkins from bringing the gun into the District while the law abiding citizens of DC are the proverbial fish in a barrel.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI really do believe we should be allowed to have our Second Amendment rights,\u201d protester Amanda Haas, 21, said.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Haas said she is \u201ca single girl who\u2019s living in the city\u201d and should have the right to protect herself with a firearm if, for instance, she is accosted while walking at night from the Metro to her home near Eastern Market.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She has good reason to worry, since crime has been on the rise in the Eastern Market area of the city, a scant few blocks from Capitol Hill. Like the other night when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wjla.com\/articles\/2012\/08\/man-severely-beaten-near-eastern-market--78963.html\">a 29-year-old man was beaten near Eastern Market<\/a>. Fish in a barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports that about 40 young residents of the Metro DC area protested in &hellip; <a title=\"Protest in DC for gun rights\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31663\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Protest in DC for gun rights<\/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-31663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31663","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=31663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}