{"id":2555,"date":"2013-04-25T08:46:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T12:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=2555"},"modified":"2013-04-25T08:46:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T12:46:36","slug":"round-two-for-gun-control-may-take-a-next-newtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/04\/25\/round-two-for-gun-control-may-take-a-next-newtown\/","title":{"rendered":"Round Two for Gun Control May Take a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcNext Newtown\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn-media.nationaljournal.com\/?controllerName=image&amp;action=get&amp;id=27960&amp;format=homepage_lead\"><\/p>\n<p>A week after gun legislation suffered a stinging defeat in the Senate, an uncomfortable realization has settled over the Capitol that it will likely take another mass shooting or similar tragedy to reignite momentum for gun control.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama called last week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vote \u00e2\u20ac\u0153round one.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., pledged that it was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153just the beginning.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d But gun-control advocates, both inside and outside of Congress, have identified no immediate path forward to alter a political landscape that left them five votes short in the Senate of passing a bill requiring expanded background checks for gun purchases.<\/p>\n<p>Focus in the Capitol has already shifted to immigration, renewed fiscal skirmishes, and the Boston bombings (though some questions remain over how the suspects obtained firearms). Even Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., the chief Republican coauthor of the background-check plan, has said it is time to move on.<\/p>\n<p>via Homepage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/daily\/round-two-for-gun-control-may-take-a-next-newtown-20130424\">http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/daily\/round-two-for-gun-control-may-take-a-next-newtown-20130424<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week after gun legislation suffered a stinging defeat in the Senate, an uncomfortable realization has settled over the Capitol that it will likely take another mass shooting or similar tragedy to reignite momentum for gun control. President Obama called last week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vote \u00e2\u20ac\u0153round one.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., pledged that it was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/04\/25\/round-two-for-gun-control-may-take-a-next-newtown\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Round Two for Gun Control May Take a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcNext Newtown\u00e2\u20ac\u2122&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[114,6,958],"class_list":["post-2555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-homepage","tag-ifttt","tag-shane-goldmacher"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-Fd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}