{"id":28143,"date":"2018-02-16T16:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28143"},"modified":"2018-02-16T16:00:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T16:00:22","slug":"right-time-mr-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28143","title":{"rendered":"When is it the ‘right time,’ Mr. Speaker?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan is showing his gutlessness yet again.<\/p>\n

He said it is “too early” to discuss gun violence in the wake of the latest gun-related tragedy.<\/p>\n

A gunman killed 17 people in Parkland, Fla. on Valentine’s Day. Seventeen lives were snuffed out by a lunatic with an AR-15 assault rifle. He bought the gun legally, according to authorities. OK. Let’s start there.<\/p>\n

How does someone who exhibited some warning signs of violence purchase an assault weapon legally? Are there any legislative remedies available to prohibit someone from buying a rifle that is designed to inflict maximum casualties in a minimum amount of time?<\/p>\n

The speaker says it’s too early to talk about that. What utter crap!<\/p>\n

It’s not too early. It’s never too early. Our nation is grieving yet again after a massacre at a public school. I am sickened in the extreme at this news. What’s more, I also am sickened at the lack of our will among our political leadership to take this matter on in a forthright manner.<\/p>\n

The president spoke to us this week about love and caring for the victims. He said the students who witnessed the carnage are not alone and “never will be.” I appreciate Donald Trump’s statements about the need to protect our students and to tackle the ravages of mental illness. He’s right.<\/p>\n

However, the president hasn’t yet broached the subject of gun violence. He hasn’t offered any ideas on how we might legislate some solution, or begin to craft a path toward some remedy that doesn’t violate the constitutional guarantee of gun ownership.<\/p>\n

Let’s talk about this, shall we? It’s not too early. If not now, then when is the right time?<\/p>\n\n

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U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan is showing his gutlessness yet again. He said it is “too early” to discuss gun violence in the wake of the latest gun-related tragedy. A gunman killed 17 people in Parkland, Fla. on Valentine’s Day. Seventeen lives were snuffed out by a lunatic with an AR-15 assault rifle. He bought … Continue reading When is it the ‘right time,’ Mr. Speaker?<\/span> →<\/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":[1424,2025,2037,7590,4169,5043],"class_list":["post-28143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-gun-control","tag-gun-violence","tag-parkland-shooting","tag-second-amendment","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28143","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=28143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28145,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28143\/revisions\/28145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}