{"id":54189,"date":"2023-02-14T21:14:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T21:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54189"},"modified":"2023-02-14T21:14:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T21:14:29","slug":"gun-violence-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54189","title":{"rendered":"Will this tragedy move Congress?"},"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 question is being asked all across the country: Will the Michigan State University slaughter of three students and the wounding of five others produce meaningful legislation that will curb gun violence?<\/p>\n<p>I believe I have the answer.<\/p>\n<p>It is no. It won&#8217;t. Too many members of Congress are too beholden to the gun lobby to enact any sort of semi-aggressive legislation that would stem the epidemic of gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>The latest shooting in East Lansing, Mich., is the 67th such &#8220;mass shooting&#8221; in 2023. Yes. That is correct. The number of shootings so far have outstripped <em>the number of days in the year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This latest goon was a 43-year-old moron with no apparent ties to the school. All of the victims were &#8212; and are &#8212; students. One individual, a young female, happened to live through her second mass shooting in a decade. She was one of the children who survived the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Conn. Think about that for a moment, about any individual who can live to talk about two such national tragedies, having seen them both up close.<\/p>\n<p>Congress is too full of political cowards for the body to enact legislation that could keep guns out of the hands of those who shouldn&#8217;t have any access to such weaponry.<\/p>\n<p>Shameful &#8230; simply shameful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/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 question is being asked all across the country: Will the Michigan State University slaughter of three students and the wounding of five others produce meaningful legislation that will curb gun violence? I believe I have the answer. It is no. It won&#8217;t. Too many members of Congress are too beholden to the gun lobby &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54189\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Will this tragedy move Congress?<\/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":[8688],"tags":[1112,7600,2037,7770,3342],"class_list":["post-54189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-news","tag-congress","tag-gun-lobby","tag-gun-violence","tag-mass-shootings","tag-nra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54189","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=54189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54190,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54189\/revisions\/54190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}