{"id":1741,"date":"2012-04-15T09:22:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T13:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2012-04-15T09:22:06","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T13:22:06","slug":"more-on-romney-and-gun-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/more-on-romney-and-gun-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"MORE ON ROMNEY AND GUN OWNERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Well, our likely Republican nominee has completed his address to the National Rifle Association and its members.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Romney\u2019s comments of Friday the 13<sup>th<\/sup> reported here <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0412\/75116.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0412\/75116.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/politics\/la-pn-mitt-romney-warns-nra-against-an-unrestrained-secondterm-obama-20120413,0,250411.story\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/politics\/la-pn-mitt-romney-warns-nra-against-an-unrestrained-secondterm-obama-20120413,0,250411.story<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The day before Romney and the other heavy hitters spoke at the NRA conference, the St. Louis <em>Post-Dispatch<\/em> ran this as their front page headline story: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/romney-s-relationship-with-gun-enthusiasts-in-the-spotlight-as\/article_8b9680ce-35d4-5bd3-99da-b5b6c7d1f3f3.html\">http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/romney-s-relationship-with-gun-enthusiasts-in-the-spotlight-as\/article_8b9680ce-35d4-5bd3-99da-b5b6c7d1f3f3.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><em><strong>This was the front page story in St. Louis&#8217; major newspaper when NRA members hit the ground there for the annual meeting.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/NRA01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1743 alignnone\" title=\"NRA01\" src=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/NRA01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/NRA01.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/NRA01-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Mr. (and Mrs.) Romney spent more time discussing women&#8217;s issues than gun owners&#8217; civil rights issues with the NRA audience.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/NRA02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1742\" title=\"NRA02\" src=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/NRA02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/NRA02.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/NRA02-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, our likely Republican nominee has completed his address to the National Rifle Association and its members. Romney\u2019s comments of Friday the 13th reported here http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0412\/75116.html And here: http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/politics\/la-pn-mitt-romney-warns-nra-against-an-unrestrained-secondterm-obama-20120413,0,250411.story The day before Romney and the other heavy hitters spoke at the NRA conference, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran this as their front page headline story: [&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-1741","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\/1741","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=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/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=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}