{"id":4863,"date":"2011-01-20T04:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T04:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/01\/20\/backpedaling-bi\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:13:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:13:02","slug":"backpedaling-bi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=4863","title":{"rendered":"Backpedaling A Bit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:18286,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\\\/2011\\\/01\\\/and-in-case-of-being-in-washington-for.html&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;},{&quot;id&quot;:18287,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.indystar.com\\\/article\\\/20110119\\\/NEWS05\\\/101190382\\\/1008\\\/NEWS05&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.indystar.com\\\/article\\\/20110119\\\/NEWS05\\\/101190382\\\/1008\\\/NEWS05&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Well, that didn&#8217;t take long. Senator Dick Lugar is now backpedaling from <a href=\"http:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/and-in-case-of-being-in-washington-for.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statements he made in an interview with Al Hunt on Bloomberg TV<\/a> saying he would support a renewed Assault Weapons Ban.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/article\/20110119\/NEWS05\/101190382\/1008\/NEWS05\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As reported in the Indianapolis Star<\/a>, he is now saying that he isn&#8217;t pushing for a renewal of the Assault Weapons Ban that expired in 2004. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;I was innocently trying to say that I voted for this in the past and probably would do so again,&#8221; the Indiana Republican said. &#8220;But there was absolutely no chance, zero, that we&#8217;re going to have such debate.&#8221;<\/i> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let me be blunt &#8211; a politician who has been in Washington as long as Lugar never innocently says anything.<\/p>\n<p>He goes on to say that discussing it now when it has no chance of passing will only spur people to go on a buying spree. <\/p>\n<p>OK, so he isn&#8217;t pushing for a renewal and he doesn&#8217;t think there will be a debate will happen BUT he would vote for it if it came up again. Somehow that doesn&#8217;t inspire me and I hope it doesn&#8217;t inspire the voters of the Hoosier State to reward him with a seventh term.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that didn&#8217;t take long. Senator Dick Lugar is now backpedaling from statements he made in an interview with&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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3803],"class_list":["post-4863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-richard-lugar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863","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=4863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6170,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863\/revisions\/6170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}