{"id":1206,"date":"2011-01-10T14:15:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T12:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2011-01-10T14:15:01","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T12:15:01","slug":"cnn-lawymakers-rethinking-their-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1206","title":{"rendered":"CNN: Lawymakers rethinking (their) security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNN <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/POLITICS\/01\/09\/congress.security\/index.html?hpt=Sbin\">reports<\/a> that in the aftermath of the Tucson shooting, House and Senate leaders are considering additional security for their members.\u00a0 That&#8217;s all fine and dandy, but my simple question is this: <strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What about the rest of us?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This guy went in and <strong>legally <\/strong>bought a 9mm <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glock\">Glock<\/a> with ammo, even though his friends and schools knew he was a little nutty.\u00a0 All of the dead people weren&#8217;t in Congress.\u00a0 They were collateral damage.\u00a0 What about them?\u00a0 The first person who says that a nine year old should be defending herself from a Glock gets a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bronx_Cheer\">Bronx Cheer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN reports that in the aftermath of the Tucson shooting, House and Senate leaders are considering additional security for their members.\u00a0 That&#8217;s all fine and dandy, but my simple question is this: What about the rest of us? This guy went in and legally bought a 9mm Glock with ammo, even though his friends and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1206\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CNN: Lawymakers rethinking (their) security&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,4,9],"tags":[224,31,402],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanity","category-politics","category-security","tag-congress","tag-guns","tag-tucson-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}