{"id":310,"date":"2013-04-19T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/19\/nra-power-outweighs-people-power"},"modified":"2013-04-19T21:39:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T21:39:00","slug":"nra-power-outweighs-people-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"NRA power outweighs \u2018people power\u2019"},"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>The vote cast in the U.S. Senate that failed to approve increased background checks on gun buyers illustrates the power of money.<\/p>\n<p>The National Rifle Association opposes the background check expansion. A huge majority of Americans, however, support it; most Democrats support it; most Republicans support it; some polls suggest that even a majority of families with NRA members support it.<\/p>\n<p>But the Senate voted 54-46 in favor of expanding the background checks. However, because of Senate rules, the body needed 60 votes to send the measure to the House of Representatives. Texas\u2019 two Republican senators, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, were among the 46 \u201cno\u201d votes. <\/p>\n<p>Thus, the bill has been put on ice for the time being.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/18\/opinion\/a-senate-in-the-gun-lobbys-grip.html?smid=fb-share&amp;_r=1&amp;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/18\/opinion\/a-senate-in-the-gun-lobbys-grip.html?smid=fb-share&amp;_r=1&amp;\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/18\/opinion\/a-senate-in-the-gun-lobbys-grip.html?smid=fb-share&amp;_r=1&amp;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Senators are afraid of NRA, but as Gabrielle Giffords \u2013 the former Arizona congresswoman who was shot in the head at a political event in Tucson two years ago \u2013 has written, senators\u2019 fear is nothing compared to the terror felt by the children caught in the gunfire in Newtown, Conn. <\/p>\n<p>But the senators\u2019 fear of the NRA apparently has far greater power than their constituents\u2019 desire for them to act on a law that many Americans believe could prevent criminals and the mentally disturbed from purchasing a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>And that is to the senators\u2019 shame.<\/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>The vote cast in the U.S. Senate that failed to approve increased background checks on gun buyers illustrates the power of money. The National Rifle Association opposes the background check expansion. A huge majority of Americans, however, support it; most Democrats support it; most Republicans support it; some polls suggest that even a majority of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=310\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NRA power outweighs \u2018people power\u2019<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","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=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}