{"id":2447338,"date":"2019-08-08T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/how-about-some-common-sense-gun-laws\/"},"modified":"2019-08-09T08:04:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T14:04:05","slug":"how-about-some-common-sense-gun-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/how-about-some-common-sense-gun-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"How about some common sense gun laws?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I don\u2019t want your guns. Or at least, I don\u2019t want your hunting rifles or handguns. Your assault weapons should never have been considered guns, and I want them banned. I do want every gun owner to register their guns, take a safety course, store them unloaded in locked cabinets. I want all gun owners to go through background checks, and anyone with a history of domestic violence or a felony should not be able to own a gun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">And yes, of course, we should be putting more money into treating mental health in this country. But that isn\u2019t enough. And yes, we need massive education on the effects of violent games and programming, and parents to intervene. And yes, we need a president who doesn\u2019t espouse hatred and laugh at jokes about shooting immigrants. But that isn\u2019t enough. We also need common sense gun laws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">If you love the Second Amendment, then you\u2019d better come up with something that works. Because us leftist, pinko, Communist snowflakes (and whatever other insults you choose to call me) have had enough!<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Peter Westcott<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Carbondale<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/how-about-some-common-sense-gun-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t want your guns. Or at least, I don\u2019t want your hunting rifles or handguns. Your assault weapons should never have been considered guns, and I want them banned. I do want every gun owner to register their guns, take a safety course, store them unloaded in locked cabinets. I want all gun owners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 17:10:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2447361,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447338\/revisions\/2447361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}