{"id":13061,"date":"2016-05-24T18:29:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T22:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=13061"},"modified":"2016-05-24T18:29:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T22:29:52","slug":"yet-another-white-house-gun-control-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=13061","title":{"rendered":"Yet another White House gun control push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> is making <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2016\/05\/23\/bringing-together-state-and-local-leaders-committed-preventing-and-reducing-gun\" target=\"_blank\">yet another push<\/a> for more gun control.\u00a0 It looks like <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VP\" target=\"_blank\">Vice President Biden<\/a> is leading the charge and he made <a href=\"http:\/\/wamc.org\/post\/malloy-among-local-leaders-white-house-gun-violence-prevention-meeting#stream\/0\" target=\"_blank\">this pronouncement<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; \u201cThere is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/wex\/second_amendment\" target=\"_blank\">2nd Amendment<\/a>,\u201d Biden said. \u201cIt\u2019s real. It exists and it must be upheld. And there is a need to significantly decrease the exposure to violence as consequence of the use of a gun in American society.\u201d &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ag.ny.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Schneiderman<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/ag.ny.gov\/press-release\/ag-schneiderman-joins-multistate-effort-urging-congress-address-gun-violence\" target=\"_blank\">getting in on the act<\/a> by joining with <a href=\"https:\/\/ag.ny.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/letter_to_congress_on_cdc_gun_violence_research_-_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">several other State Attorney Generals<\/a> in calling for Congress to provide funding to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\" target=\"_blank\">CDC<\/a> for gun control &#8220;research&#8221;.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/govmalloyoffice\" target=\"_blank\">Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy<\/a> is also making noise, but he just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctpost.com\/local\/article\/Malloy-blasts-Trump-s-pledge-against-gun-free-7943095.php\" target=\"_blank\">seems whiny and annoying<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think any of this is going to amount to much.\u00a0 It all looks so weak.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D13061&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=13061\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=13061\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=13061\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama is making yet another push for more gun control.\u00a0 It looks like Vice President Biden is leading the charge and he made this pronouncement: &#8220;&#8230; \u201cThere is a 2nd Amendment,\u201d Biden said. \u201cIt\u2019s real. It exists and it must be upheld. 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