{"id":4578,"date":"2011-03-17T14:00:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4578"},"modified":"2011-03-17T14:00:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T18:00:33","slug":"obama-still-steers-clear-of-action-on-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4578","title":{"rendered":"Obama Still Steers Clear Of Action On Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; <strong>Barack Obama<\/strong> once said it was a &#8220;scandal&#8221; that then-<strong>President George W. Bush <\/strong>did not force renewal of a federal assault weapons ban. Now it is <strong>Obama<\/strong> himself who is steering clear of that and other politically sensitive gun-control measures, even while calling for a new discussion on weapons and &#8220;how we can keep America safe for all our people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The president asked for the new conversation on gun safety in an opinion column in <strong>Rep. Gabrielle Giffords&#8217;<\/strong> hometown paper, the Arizona Daily Star, over the weekend. He proposed strengthening and enforcing existing laws requiring gun sellers to perform background checks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; Barack Obama once said it was a &#8220;scandal&#8221; that then-President George W. Bush did not force renewal of a federal assault weapons ban. Now it is Obama himself who is steering clear of that and other politically sensitive gun-control measures, even while calling for a new discussion on weapons and &#8220;how we can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}