{"id":32,"date":"2005-04-06T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2005-04-06T00:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog2\/?p=32"},"modified":"2011-05-03T11:48:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T16:48:57","slug":"32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/32\/32","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One last entry before I go away to Tennesee..although I don&#8217;t have much to say:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\">MIAMI (AFP) &#8211; Florida&#8217;s legislature has approved a bill that would give residents the right to open fire against anyone they perceive as a threat in public, instead of having to try to avoid a conflict as under prevailing law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\">Outraged opponents say the law will encourage Floridians to open fire first and ask questions later, fostering a sort of statewide Wild West shootout mentality. Supporters argue that criminals will think twice if they believe they are likely to be promptly shot when they assault someone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\">Republican Governor Jeb Bush, who has said he plans to sign the bill, says it is &#8220;a good, commonsense, anti-crime issue.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\">The bill, supported by the influential National Rifle Association, was approved by both houses of the Republican-run legislature on Tuesday<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/afp\/20050406\/ts_alt_afp\/uscrimeguns_050406201103\">http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/afp\/20050406\/ts_alt_afp\/uscrimeguns_050406201103<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think this one pretty well goes without being said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One last entry before I go away to Tennesee..although I don&#8217;t have much to say: MIAMI (AFP) &#8211; Florida&#8217;s legislature has approved a bill that would give residents the right to open fire against anyone they perceive as a threat in public, instead of having to try to avoid a conflict as under prevailing law. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}