{"id":650498,"date":"2013-04-03T19:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T23:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=f3d4f365ed6d71e0f670773dc33e8a65"},"modified":"2013-04-03T19:00:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T23:00:56","slug":"president-obama-requiring-background-checks-for-anyone-who-wants-to-buy-a-gun-is-common-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/650498","title":{"rendered":"President Obama: Requiring Background Checks for Anyone Who Wants to Buy a Gun is Common Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today in Colorado, President Obama asked the American people to continue calling on Congress to vote on a set of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/issues\/preventing-gun-violence\">common-sense proposals to help reduce gun violence<\/a>, including closing loopholes in the background check system to keep guns out of the hands criminals and others who should not have access to them.<\/p>\n<p>Since the tragic shooting in Newtown, Connecticut prompted a national call for action just over 100 days ago, gun violence has killed more than 2,000 Americans. &ldquo;Every day that we wait to do something about it, even more of our fellow citizens are stolen from our lives by a bullet from a gun,&rdquo; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2013\/04\/03\/remarks-president-reducing-gun-violence\">President Obama said today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado &ndash; a state that&rsquo;s experienced two of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history &ndash; has already taken action to prevent future violence. State officials worked together to enact tougher background checks that help keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people without infringing on the rights of responsible gun owners.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There doesn&rsquo;t have to be a conflict between protecting our citizens and protecting our Second Amendment rights,&rdquo; President Obama said. &ldquo;Colorado has shown that practical progress is possible.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/04\/03\/president-obama-requiring-background-checks-anyone-who-wants-buy-gun-common-sense\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in Colorado, President Obama asked the American people to continue calling on Congress to vote on a set of common-sense proposals to help reduce gun violence, including closing loopholes in the background check system to keep guns out of the hands criminals and others who should not have access to them. Since the tragic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650498","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\/7325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}