{"id":1452,"date":"2015-01-21T05:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T05:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2015\/01\/21\/the-difference-two-years-make\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:25:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:25:04","slug":"the-difference-two-years-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1452","title":{"rendered":"The Difference Two Years Make"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11005,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.whitehouse.gov\\\/the-press-office\\\/2015\\\/01\\\/20\\\/remarks-president-state-union-address-january-20-2015&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.whitehouse.gov\\\/the-press-office\\\/2015\\\/01\\\/20\\\/remarks-president-state-union-address-january-20-2015&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11006,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.whitehouse.gov\\\/the-press-office\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/12\\\/remarks-president-state-union-address&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.whitehouse.gov\\\/the-press-office\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/12\\\/remarks-president-state-union-address&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nIt is interesting the difference two years make. I&#8217;m listening to a rebroadcast of President Obama&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2015\/01\/20\/remarks-president-state-union-address-january-20-2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State of the Union Speech<\/a>. I was interested to see if he was going to call for more gun control. Reading through the speech and then doing word searches I can find no mention of guns, firearms, background checks, or <strike>Newtown<\/strike>. The only mention of crime has to do with the incarceration rate.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2013\/02\/12\/remarks-president-state-union-address\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2013 State of the Union Speech<\/a> contains eight instances where Obama mentioned guns or gun violence (sic). He called for more background checks as well as restrictions on firearms and standard capacity magazines.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know whether it is because there is a Republican Senate and House who (generally) are pro-gun rights or because its just not sexy enough for him to bother with anymore. He&#8217;s still hung up on &#8220;climate change&#8221;and &#8220;rising oceans&#8221;. And, of course, it is for &#8220;the children&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well, you can&#8217;t have everything.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE<\/b>: I was wrong. He did mention Newtown and Tucson but in the context of grieving with families just as he grieved with dead miners in West Virginia.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is interesting the difference two years make. 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