{"id":756,"date":"2012-12-15T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/15\/time-for-meaningful-action"},"modified":"2012-12-15T18:41:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-15T18:41:00","slug":"time-for-meaningful-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=756","title":{"rendered":"Time for \u2018meaningful action\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>I think I\u2019ll let this editorial from the Eugene Register-Guard in Oregon stand as a commentary worth reading in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy in Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.registerguard.com\/web\/opinion\/29181521-47\/nation-president-americans-connecticut-gun.html.csp\" href=\"http:\/\/www.registerguard.com\/web\/opinion\/29181521-47\/nation-president-americans-connecticut-gun.html.csp\">http:\/\/www.registerguard.com\/web\/opinion\/29181521-47\/nation-president-americans-connecticut-gun.html.csp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll just add one thought that\u2019s been rolling around in my noggin this morning.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot help but wonder what the nation\u2019s founders had in mind when they crafted the Second Amendment to the Constitution. It declares that the right to keep and bear arms shall be a citizen\u2019s right. Did they ever envision a nation that would grow through the course of two centuries into a place where mass murders break the hearts of hundreds of millions of Americans?<\/p>\n<p>The nation governed by that Constitution is reeling \u2013 once again \u2013\u00a0 because of an insane act.<\/p>\n<p>What would those founders be thinking today?<\/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>I think I\u2019ll let this editorial from the Eugene Register-Guard in Oregon stand as a commentary worth reading in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy in Connecticut. http:\/\/www.registerguard.com\/web\/opinion\/29181521-47\/nation-president-americans-connecticut-gun.html.csp I\u2019ll just add one thought that\u2019s been rolling around in my noggin this morning. I cannot help but wonder what the nation\u2019s founders had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=756\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time for \u2018meaningful action\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-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","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=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}