{"id":534544,"date":"2010-04-19T16:29:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T20:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=82730"},"modified":"2010-04-19T16:29:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T20:29:58","slug":"armed-group-warns-lawmakers-of-%e2%80%98consequences%e2%80%99-of-gun-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/534544","title":{"rendered":"Armed Group Warns Lawmakers of \u2018Consequences\u2019 of Gun Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama might have signed the bill that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/18\/AR2010021805124.html\" >allows<\/a> loaded weapons in national parks, but don&#8217;t tell that to the armed activists who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/video\/2010\/04\/19\/VI2010041903627.html?hpid=artslot\" >gathered<\/a> Monday at Virginia&#8217;s Fort Hunt to showcase their\u00a0Second Amendment rights. They claim to be quite threatened by the current leaders in Washington, and they were quick to lob a few threats of their own.<\/p>\n<p>Here, for example, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JCuqGUoqBIE\" >a video<\/a> of Alabama militiaman Mike Vanderboegh telling reporters that there will be &#8220;consequences&#8221; if policymakers try to restrict gun rights.<span id=\"more-82730\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Vanderboegh: I&#8217;m calling on the government to understand that there are going to be consequences to pushing people like us any farther back.<\/p>\n<p>Questioner: More Ruby Ridges? More Wacos?<\/p>\n<p>Vanderboegh: Precisely.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>From comments like that, you&#8217;d think that the House was about to <em>tighten<\/em> D.C.&#8217;s gun laws, rather than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/04\/17\/AR2010041702500.html\" >gutting<\/a> them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama might have signed the bill that allows loaded weapons in national parks, but don&#8217;t tell that to the armed activists who gathered Monday at Virginia&#8217;s Fort Hunt to showcase their\u00a0Second Amendment rights. They claim to be quite threatened by the current leaders in Washington, and they were quick to lob a few threats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534544","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\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}