{"id":2831,"date":"2012-12-19T10:18:35","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T15:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/?p=2831"},"modified":"2020-07-27T09:27:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T13:27:51","slug":"2012-12-19-joe-biden-to-respond-to-newton-school-shooting-and-gun-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/2012-12-19-joe-biden-to-respond-to-newton-school-shooting-and-gun-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden to Respond to Newton School Shooting and Gun Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9371\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9371\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/christian-wiediger-1XGlbRjt92Q-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9371\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/christian-wiediger-1XGlbRjt92Q-unsplash-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/christian-wiediger-1XGlbRjt92Q-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/christian-wiediger-1XGlbRjt92Q-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/christian-wiediger-1XGlbRjt92Q-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/christian-wiediger-1XGlbRjt92Q-unsplash-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Let there be peace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Vice President Joe Biden is supposed to speak in response to the Newton, Connecticut shooting of 20 children and six teachers. \u00a0In Obama&#8217;s speech during the services for the children and teachers he said that he wanted to, &#8220;use whatever this power holds,&#8221; in order to keep this incident from happening again. \u00a0<a title=\"Biden to Lead Administration Effort to Develop Response to Shootings\" href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/19\/biden-to-lead-administration-effort-to-develop-response-to-shootings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Today Biden will address not only gun control but also that of mental health illnesses.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more Read more--><\/p>\n<p>The biggest issue that will be discussed is gun control. \u00a0Supporters of anti-gun control are even hopping on the bandwagon and are ready for some legislation changes. \u00a0Safety is a huge concern for the majority of the senators. \u00a0<a title=\"Newtown shootings: Obama tasks Biden with US response\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-20782805\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dianne Feinstein, a senator from California, is going to introduce a ban on assault weapons. <\/a>\u00a0And West Virginia Senator,\u00a0Joe Manchin,\u00a0who is a gun owner and hunter explains, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know anyone in the sporting or hunting arena that goes out with an assault rifle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although, not everyone is happy with the new proposal for gun control. \u00a0Gun users have gone out and bought assault weapons for fear that the new legislation will ban it. \u00a0The ban could limit the amount of ammunition bought and also make it harder to buy a gun a trade shows with no background check. \u00a0Why any one sell a gun without a background check on some one is beyond me. \u00a0But hopefully the new proposed legislation will cover all of these questions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Joe Biden is supposed to speak in response to the Newton, Connecticut shooting of 20 children and six teachers. \u00a0In Obama&#8217;s speech during the services for the children&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,35,1196,1195,1198,1197,1186,1115],"class_list":["post-2831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-settlements","tag-california","tag-connecticut","tag-dianne-feinstein","tag-joe-biden","tag-joe-manchin","tag-legislation","tag-newton","tag-president-obama"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2831"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9373,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831\/revisions\/9373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}