{"id":17644,"date":"2021-03-24T17:32:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T21:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=17644"},"modified":"2021-12-14T21:11:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T02:11:04","slug":"the-problem-with-the-nra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/the-problem-with-the-nra\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem with the NRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NRA uses its power to thwart any gun control legislation in the US. Farron Cousins on <strong>The Ring of Fire<\/strong> argues that its leadership, not its individual members, should be classed a terrorist organization. The NRA throws its weight around to stymie reasonable measures that are supported by a wide majority of the population &#8212; and even of NRA members.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tTo1mGP3nKk\">NRA Should Be Classified As A Terrorist Organization<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NRA uses its power to thwart any gun control legislation in the US. Farron Cousins on The Ring of Fire argues that its leadership, not its individual members, should be classed a terrorist organization. The NRA throws its weight around to stymie reasonable measures that are supported by a wide majority of the population [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,22],"tags":[140],"class_list":["post-17644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","category-my-thoughts","tag-gun-control"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17644"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17657,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17644\/revisions\/17657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}