{"id":56956,"date":"2014-12-09T09:13:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T14:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56956"},"modified":"2014-12-08T18:47:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T23:47:42","slug":"states-to-battle-gun-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56956","title":{"rendered":"States to battle gun rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/state-lawmakers-launch-gun-control-coalition-220002854.html\">Reuters<\/a> writes that 200 state legislators from 50 states have joined a cute little alliance with a cute little name; American State Legislators for Gun Violence Prevention founded by a New York State legislator, Brian Kavanagh, from Manhattan&#8217;s East Side. he&#8217;s a lifelong resident of New York City, so I&#8217;m sure there are no West Virginia delegates there listening to him, because he doesn&#8217;t know how things are outside his little cocoon there in Manhattan. He&#8217;s also a big DeBlasio supporter. Guns scare the shit out of him, so I&#8217;m sure his body guards must keep theirs out of sight.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Kavanagh told a news conference the group would focus on state-level gun control reforms, including the prevention of interstate gun trafficking and tightening background checks on buyers.<\/p>\n<p>Congress has &#8220;failed in its responsibility&#8221; to prevent gun violence, said Jose Rodriguez, a Democratic state senator from Texas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can&#8217;t continue in the same path that we&#8217;ve been in as a country,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, so how many of the high profile gun crimes in recent years would have been prevented by more stringent background checks? Beuller? How, exactly would Mr. Rodriguez make up for Congress&#8217; failures? What is wrong with the &#8220;path&#8221; that we&#8217;ve been on?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lawmakers from eight states were at the news conference, including Virginia, Alabama, New Hampshire and Kansas. The only Republican lawmaker was state Representative Barbara Bollier from Kansas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whew! I thought they were serious for a minute. Republican governors run 31 states (probably all states that allow me to carry a concealed weapon) and legislators, especially just the Democrats, have to get legislation past them. Oh, yeah, Republicans control 35 State Senates and 33 State Houses. But, hey, Brian Kavanagh and his little buddies feel better about themselves and isn&#8217;t that what it&#8217;s really all about? Keep speaking truth to power, there, Bri, that power you&#8217;re speaking truth to, is the People, by the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters writes that 200 state legislators from 50 states have joined a cute little alliance with &hellip; <a title=\"States to battle gun rights\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56956\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">States to battle gun rights<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gun-grabbing-fascists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56956","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=56956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}