{"id":5501,"date":"2011-11-11T08:56:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T14:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2011-11-11T08:56:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T14:56:53","slug":"the-gun-lobby-and-military-suicides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/11\/the-gun-lobby-and-military-suicides\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gun Lobby and Military Suicides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Andrew Rosenthal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Of all of the lobbying organizations that feed off fear, and rely for their funding and power on dividing Americans, one of the worst is the National Rifle Association.<\/p>\n<p>The NRA never misses a chance to misrepresent the positions of people who advocate reasonable gun control, to make Americans afraid that the government wants to take away their right to defend their homes and their loved ones, and to turn any attempt to have a sensible conversation about guns into an assault on the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Why else would the NRA support a law that makes it more difficult to prevent suicides among members of the armed forces?<\/p>\n<p>Let me explain. &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/loyalopposition.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/08\/the-gun-lobby-and-military-suicides\/\">Continued here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Rosenthal: Of all of the lobbying organizations that feed off fear, and rely for their funding and power on dividing Americans, one of the worst is the National Rifle Association. The NRA never misses a chance to misrepresent the positions of people who advocate reasonable gun control, to make Americans afraid that the government &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/11\/the-gun-lobby-and-military-suicides\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Gun Lobby and Military Suicides<\/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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[421,449,290],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1qJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5501"}],"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=5501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}