{"id":1304,"date":"2008-01-31T14:00:46","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/01\/31\/poster-child-for-gun-law-refor\/"},"modified":"2008-01-31T14:00:46","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T14:00:46","slug":"poster-child-for-gun-law-refor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/31\/poster-child-for-gun-law-refor\/","title":{"rendered":"Poster Child for Gun Law Reform Convicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1998, 13 year old Mitchell Johnson and his 11 year old buddy Andrew Golden gunned down four students aged 11 and 12 and English Teacher Shannon Wright, and wounded 10 other people, at Jonesboro Westside Middle School.  They had pulled the fire alarm to bring their victims into this trap.<!--more-->Johnson was released from prison at the age of 21, and his record was adjudicated, thus restoring his right to own firearms.Two days ago, a federal jury convicted Johnson, now 23, of a weapons charge in connection with his possession of a 9 mm hand gun and a shotgun.I think it is time for a change.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/CRIME\/01\/29\/jonesboro.shooter.ap\/index.html\">[source]<\/a> [hat tip: CMF]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1998, 13 year old Mitchell Johnson and his 11 year old buddy Andrew Golden gunned down four students aged 11 and 12 and English Teacher Shannon Wright, and wounded 10 other people, at Jonesboro Westside Middle School. They had pulled the fire alarm to bring their victims into this trap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-l2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}