{"id":5329,"date":"2012-01-02T18:46:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T23:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=5329"},"modified":"2012-01-02T18:46:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T23:46:08","slug":"vallone-is-half-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=5329","title":{"rendered":"Vallone is half-right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/d22\/html\/members\/home.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Vallone<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalnewyork.com\/article\/politics\/2012\/01\/4861557\/vallone-without-cocaine-gun-toting-tennessee-tourist-just-knucklehe\" target=\"_blank\">half-right<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; The case of the Tennessee tourist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/manhattan\/pistol_whipped_at_wtc_1x32hgT52UNhxkP36ZYAgJ\" target=\"_blank\">Meredith Graves<\/a>, is just one of &#8220;the examples the rest of the country is using in trying to pass this reciprocity law,&#8221; Vallone said, referring to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nraila.org\/Legislation\/Federal\/Read.aspx?id=7178\" target=\"_blank\">a federal bill<\/a> that would require every state to honor gun licenses issued in other state. \u00a0The bill passed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\" target=\"_blank\">House<\/a> but not the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Senate<\/a>. \u00a0Gun-control critics, Vallone said, &#8220;are pointing to examples like this of law-abiding people who make mistakes and face tremendous jail sentences. And we have to fix it.&#8221; &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jail sentences are only part of it. \u00a0There is no reason to restrict a civil right based upon nothing more than political boundaries. \u00a0That is what <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\" target=\"_blank\">H.R. 822<\/a> is all about.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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%3D5329&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=5329\">&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=5329\"><\/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=5329\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Vallone is half-right: &#8220;&#8230; The case of the Tennessee tourist, Meredith Graves, is just one of &#8220;the examples the rest of the country is using in trying to pass this reciprocity law,&#8221; Vallone said, referring to a federal bill that would require every state to honor gun licenses issued in other state. \u00a0The bill [&hellip;]<\/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%3D5329&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=5329\">&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=5329\"><\/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=5329\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5329"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5334,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329\/revisions\/5334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}