{"id":2355,"date":"2013-04-18T01:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T01:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/04\/18\/headline-of-day-4\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:21:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:21:40","slug":"headline-of-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2355","title":{"rendered":"Headline Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13719,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nationaljournal.com\\\/politics\\\/at-pivotal-point-in-presidency-obama-routed-on-gun-control-20130417&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20131010053726\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.nationaljournal.com\\\/politics\\\/at-pivotal-point-in-presidency-obama-routed-on-gun-control-20130417&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 21:21:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 15:22:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 15:22:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13720,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Young_Pioneer_Organization_of_the_Soviet_Union&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/politics\/at-pivotal-point-in-presidency-obama-routed-on-gun-control-20130417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/politics\/at-pivotal-point-in-presidency-obama-routed-on-gun-control-20130417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The headline of the day comes from the National Journal <\/a>on a story about today&#8217;s win for gun rights (or defeat of gun control depending upon your perspective).<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote><p>\n<i><span style=\"font-size: large;\">At Pivotal Point in Presidency, Obama Routed on Gun Control <\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nWhat makes this headline even more sweet is that it was written by the National Journal&#8217;s Ron Fournier who has been vehemently anti-gun. He tries to salvage this defeat by saying that the win could backfire if it empowers those backing gun prohibition.<\/p>\n<p>I sincerely doubt that will happen given the differences in intensity between those who support rights and those who want to take them away. Even Fournier recognizes this. That said he still has high hopes for Obama&#8217;s version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Young_Pioneer_Organization_of_the_Soviet_Union\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Young Pioneers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>What if the fledgling OFA unlocks the key to converting Obama\u2019s<br \/>\nreelection machine into a million-member lobbying force? What if voters<br \/>\nwho support the Second Amendment and commonsense gun regulation<br \/>\n get angry at Congress for ignoring them? What if these voters realize<br \/>\nthat the same social and technological forces that democratized 21st century media and commerce\u2014as well as enabling revolutions in the Middle East\u2014also empower individual Americans to change Congress?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To which I would say, dream on. <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headline of the day comes from the National Journal on a story about today&#8217;s win for gun rights&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,45,3128,3129],"class_list":["post-2355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-gun-control","tag-national-journal","tag-ron-fournier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9067,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions\/9067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}