{"id":5790,"date":"2011-12-27T09:46:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T15:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2011-12-27T09:46:08","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T15:46:08","slug":"call-to-action-on-gun-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/27\/call-to-action-on-gun-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Call to action on gun violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/dennis-a-henigan\/too-many-victims-of-gun-v_b_1160496.html\">Dennis Henigan<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some would suggest that American gun violence is an intractable scourge, with obstacles to progress that are just too high and too numerous. The American people don&#8217;t believe that, not for a minute. There is no better time to make that clear than January 8, 2012, the first anniversary of the Tucson shooting.<\/p>\n<p>We urge people across this nation, in cities, suburbs and small towns, to join with the Brady Campaign, and many others on that day, to stand as one to remember the victims of American gun violence and to say, with one simple act, that we will no longer tolerate the relentless loss of innocent lives to gunfire.<\/p>\n<p>That simple act is to light a candle. Join us by participating in a nationwide candlelight vigil, to proclaim that there have been too many victims of gun violence for our nation to endure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Dennis Henigan: Some would suggest that American gun violence is an intractable scourge, with obstacles to progress that are just too high and too numerous. The American people don&#8217;t believe that, not for a minute. There is no better time to make that clear than January 8, 2012, the first anniversary of the Tucson &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/27\/call-to-action-on-gun-violence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Call to action on gun violence<\/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":[449,290],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1vo","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5790"}],"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=5790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}