{"id":8596,"date":"2013-06-10T12:59:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T16:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=8596"},"modified":"2013-06-10T12:59:06","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T16:59:06","slug":"protesting-jack-martins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=8596","title":{"rendered":"Protesting Jack Martins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/senator\/dean-g-skelos\" target=\"_blank\">Dean Skelos<\/a>\u00a0and the rest of the Long Island Republicans (except for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/senator\/lee-m-zeldin\" target=\"_blank\">Lee Zeldin<\/a>) probably convinced themselves that their vote in favor of SAFE was a no-brainer, that gun control was widely popular in their area and there would not be any repercussions for their vote.<\/p>\n<p>The first sign of problems with this notion arrived a couple of weeks ago when the President of the Suffolk Police Conference <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=8516\">came out in support of full repeal<\/a>. \u00a0The second sign came this Saturday when <a href=\"http:\/\/mineola.patch.com\/groups\/politics-and-elections\/p\/pro-gun-advocates-rally-in-mineola-against-ny-safe-act\" target=\"_blank\">protesters gathered<\/a> right by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/senator\/jack-m-martins\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Martins<\/a>\u00a0district office in\u00a0Mineola.<\/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%3D8596&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=8596\">&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=8596\"><\/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=8596\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Skelos\u00a0and the rest of the Long Island Republicans (except for\u00a0Lee Zeldin) probably convinced themselves that their vote in favor of SAFE was a no-brainer, that gun control was widely popular in their area and there would not be any repercussions for their vote. 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