In today’s WAPO Metro section, there is an article where Gabrielle Giffords and her husband’s gun control group is supporting candidates in Virginia who support gun control legislation like background checks. \u00a0Even gun owners are in favor of such checks and eliminating the loopholes like gun shows and internet purchases. \u00a0When Hal Pal’s campaign manager Luisa Guerra was asked by the reporter about Hal Pal’s position on guns, Guerra said the issue didn’t “resonate” with voters in our district. \u00a0I think the issue resonates with everyone. \u00a0Are we so numb that we have forgotten Virginia Tech or the killer at Smith Mountain Lake? \u00a0Factually, there are fewer homicides in states with strong gun control laws (that would not be Oregon). \u00a0 I am from Oregon originally and I am embarrassed. \u00a0Think of the shoot out in the WalMart parking lot when the lady shooter shot at someone she observed was shoplifting. \u00a0Yeah. \u00a0That’s the kind of world I want to live in, \u00a0NOT. \u00a0Thanks Hal Pal for making Virginia more dangerous. \u00a0Just what we need. \u00a0Maybe Hal Pal is packing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In today’s WAPO Metro section, there is an article where Gabrielle Giffords and her husband’s gun control group is supporting candidates in Virginia who support gun control legislation like background checks. \u00a0Even gun owners are in favor of such checks and eliminating the loopholes like gun shows and internet purchases. \u00a0When Hal Pal’s campaign manager Luisa Guerra was asked by the reporter about Hal Pal’s position on guns, Guerra said…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halparrish"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":false,"total_views":0,"today_views":0},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}