{"id":26879,"date":"2017-12-14T20:42:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T20:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26879"},"modified":"2017-12-14T20:44:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T20:44:04","slug":"the-nation-is-still-crying-over-this-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26879","title":{"rendered":"The nation is still crying over this tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/carney.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-26880\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/carney-300x79.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"471\" height=\"124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/carney-300x79.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/carney-768x201.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/carney.jpg 938w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This tweet was fired off today from a former White House secretary, Jay Carney.<\/p>\n<p>He writes that his boss, President Barack Obama, broke down in tears over the news that came from Newtown, Conn.<\/p>\n<p>A deranged madman gunned down 20 first- and second-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The president, who is &#8220;normally stoic,&#8221; as Carney said, lost his cool. He cried.<\/p>\n<p>So did Carney. Indeed, so did many Americans when they got word of what had happened. I was among them.<\/p>\n<p>This tragedy occurred five years ago this week. It was supposed to be some sort of &#8220;tipping point&#8221; in the never-ending debate over gun violence and whether there were ways to legislate a remedy that could keep weapons out of the hands of lunatics, such as the monster who committed this dastardly deed.<\/p>\n<p>The fight, as always, centered then on the Second Amendment, the one that guarantees the right to &#8220;keep and bear arms.&#8221; Gun-rights advocates argue that no law could have prevented the Newtown nut job from getting a gun, given that he got the weapon from his mother &#8212; who he also killed in his rampage.<\/p>\n<p>The failure to act in the wake of that horrific event made the president cry yet again.<\/p>\n<p>And &#8230; yes, there have been other such tragedies since that terrible December day: Orlando, Las Vegas, Sutherland Springs, to name just three of them.<\/p>\n<p>When can we stop the tears?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tweet was fired off today from a former White House secretary, Jay Carney. He writes that his boss, President Barack Obama, broke down in tears over the news that came from Newtown, Conn. A deranged madman gunned down 20 first- and second-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The president, who is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26879\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The nation is still crying over this tragedy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[540,2034,2037,7344,6322,4169],"class_list":["post-26879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-gun-rights","tag-gun-violence","tag-newtown","tag-sandy-hook","tag-second-amendment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26882,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26879\/revisions\/26882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}