{"id":1739,"date":"2012-04-12T08:13:49","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T12:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2012-04-12T08:13:49","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T12:13:49","slug":"romney-on-gun-owners-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/romney-on-gun-owners-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"ROMNEY ON GUN OWNERS\u2019 RIGHTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a week in which national news has been dominated by a couple of issues that impact directly on gun owners\u2019 civil rights.\u00a0 One of those issues is the <em>fait accompli<\/em> that Mitt Romney will almost certainly be the Republican candidate for President in the next election.<\/p>\n<p>Romney does not have a good record on gun owners\u2019 issues from my perspective, though he has shown signs of coming more to our side in recent years.\u00a0 Some see it as strictly a political move on his part, some are more hopeful.<\/p>\n<p>One skeptic on the issue is my old friend Frank James.\u00a0 There are lots of gun bloggers out there, and Frank\u2019s is one of the few I have on my RSS feed.\u00a0 Frank has little respect for politicians who are soft on this issue \u2013 he refers to Mitt Romney as \u201cMittens\u201d \u2013 and he had this to say in his blog recently:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/frankwjames.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/mittens-to-address-nra.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/frankwjames.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/mittens-to-address-nra.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like Frank, I\u2019ll be watching and listening with interest when Romney joins several other political powerhouses to address the NRA gathering in St. Louis this coming Friday.\u00a0 Hopefully, it will be on C-Span or some other venue where the nation can watch, listen, and use their life experience and their own BS detectors to gauge the sincerity of the speakers.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to comment. I\u2019m particularly interested to hear from Massachusetts readers who lived under Mitt Romney\u2019s governorship from 2003 to 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a week in which national news has been dominated by a couple of issues that impact directly on gun owners\u2019 civil rights.\u00a0 One of those issues is the fait accompli that Mitt Romney will almost certainly be the Republican candidate for President in the next election. Romney does not have a good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearm-owners-civil-rights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}