{"id":339783,"date":"2010-02-19T07:38:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T12:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/02\/19\/utah-state-senator-wants-to-create-holiday-honoring-gun-pioneer-on-mlk-day\/"},"modified":"2010-02-19T07:38:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T12:38:08","slug":"utah-state-senator-wants-to-create-holiday-honoring-gun-pioneer-on-mlk-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/339783","title":{"rendered":"Utah state senator wants to create holiday honoring ?gun pioneer? on MLK Day."},"content":{"rendered":"

Utah state senator wants to create holiday honoring ?gun pioneer? on MLK Day. \t\t<\/a>
Utah State Sen. Mark Madsen (R) is introducing legislation to create a holiday honoring John Moses Browning — the Utah native and “gun pioneer” who founded the Browning Arms company — on the same day as Martin Luther King Day. Browning’s birthday is believed to be around Jan. 21, so “Madsen proposes doubling up Browning […]<\/p>\n

\"Madsen3\"Utah State Sen. Mark Madsen (R) is introducing legislation<\/a> to create a holiday honoring John Moses Browning — the Utah native and “gun pioneer<\/a>” who founded the Browning Arms company — on the same day as Martin Luther King Day. Browning’s birthday is believed to be around Jan. 21, so “Madsen proposes doubling up<\/a> Browning and King”:<\/p>\n

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“I see them as complimentary<\/strong>,” [Madsen] said. Browning is known for developing a variety of guns, including the gas-operated machine gun. Madsen said he plans to meet with the NAACP to discuss his proposal.<\/p>\n

“We’ll see if they can take it in the spirit it’s intended,” Madsen said. […]<\/p>\n

“Guns keep peace<\/strong>,” [state Senate Majority Leader Scott] Jenkins [R] said. “I kind of like the idea of making his birthday a holiday. I’m all over that.” <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Salt Lake NAACP President Jeanetta Williams said she was “furious<\/a>” about the idea. “It is not acceptable for the name John M. Browning to jointly share the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday,” she said. “Dr. King was assassinated by a man using a gun<\/a>. John M. Browning was a gun manufacturer. \u2026 To me it’s a very mean-spirited act.” King would probably be outraged aswell, having said that by allowing guns to be “purchased at will<\/a> and fired at whim…we have created an atmosphere in which violence and hatred have become popular pastimes.” For several years, Utah “purposely” omitted King’s name<\/a> from the holiday, calling it Human Rights Day until 2000. Madsen noted that he’s not committed to MLK day and will find another day “if the race baiters<\/a> are out there looking for an opportunity” to start a controversy.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Utah state senator wants to create holiday honoring ?gun pioneer? on MLK Day. Utah State Sen. Mark Madsen (R) is introducing legislation to create a holiday honoring John Moses Browning — the Utah native and “gun pioneer” who founded the Browning Arms company — on the same day as Martin Luther King Day. Browning’s birthday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}