{"id":15546,"date":"2016-06-17T15:32:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T22:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=15546"},"modified":"2016-06-17T15:35:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T22:35:05","slug":"told-you-so-i-guess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2016\/06\/17\/told-you-so-i-guess\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;told you so&#8221;?  i guess?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My observation upon the 2013 defeat of the last major push for a gun control bill &#8212; Toomey and Manchin spear-heading for their political aims of, oh, Blue state (vulnerable in upcoming cycle) Republican and Red State (needing credibility for the party in rural America) Democrat&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2013\/04\/20\/54-to-46-yeahs-to-nays-and-the-nays-win\/\">my observation stands<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The theory of this is that this bill will come back up and it will be tougher. \u00c2\u00a0Frankly, though, I align with the gun control \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sour grapes\u00e2\u20ac\u009d contingency of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153just as well this didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t pass\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, but for different reasons. \u00c2\u00a0Whether or not something pops up that is more meaningful \u00e2\u20ac\u201d [&#8230;] \u00e2\u20ac\u201d I would rather have no bill come out and no pretense that something just happened than a bill come through with the illusion that something just happened \u00e2\u20ac\u201d when it didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That particular bill&#8230; would not have addressed the issue of how the killer in Orlando managed to purchase his semi-automatic weapon&#8230; with, oh, major domestic violence in his background, even more of an issue, says me, than that he would be probed in the hunt for radical jihadism.<br \/>\nOn that latter score, you can imagine that the Democratic challenger to one Rand Paul in the state of Kentucky is going to&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whas11.com\/news\/local\/jim-gray-accuses-rand-paul-of-protecting-radical-islam-with-gun-vote\/245296587\">try to flank to his right<\/a> in his argument while flanking to the left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My observation upon the 2013 defeat of the last major push for a gun control bill &#8212; Toomey and Manchin spear-heading for their political aims of, oh, Blue state (vulnerable in upcoming cycle) Republican and Red State (needing credibility for the party in rural America) Democrat&#8211; my observation stands. The theory of this is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15546"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15549,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15546\/revisions\/15549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}