{"id":3591,"date":"2018-02-23T10:09:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T15:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=3591"},"modified":"2018-02-23T10:09:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T15:09:41","slug":"celebrities-speak-out-about-gun-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=3591","title":{"rendered":"Celebrities Speak Out About Gun Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Joseph Carrick<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The shooting in Parkland, Florida was the seventh school shooting to occur in 2018, again sparking protests and another round of debates regarding America\u2019s gun control policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The fact that America does not enforce seriously harsh restrictions on gun ownership is unquestionable, but whether or not America should emulate such laws is up for debate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hollywood celebrities voiced their concern for the seemingly growing popularity of mass murder among the mentally ill. Emma Stone, backed up by a plethora of other celebrities, launched an ad campaign to rouse support against the gun lobbyist group \u201cNRA\u201d and encouraged followers to text \u201cREJECT\u201d to 644-33, which would forward messages to local representatives. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The political right offered different solutions to the issue: require teachers to carry firearms, enable metal detectors in schools, etc. This idea was quickly rejected after the realization was made that Congress would then have to raise the education budget in order to properly execute those solutions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brad Pitt tried to explain the phenomenon by stating, \u201cAmerica is a country founded on guns. It\u2019s in our DNA,\u201d possibly referencing either the various militia groups or America\u2019s background with wars and violence as a whole. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jeremy Renner adds, \u201cI own guns and want to keep it that way [\u2026] guns don\u2019t kill people, people kill people.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Either way, with the upcoming elections, it will not be surprising if gun control becomes an even hotter topic in debates. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Joseph Carrick The shooting in Parkland, Florida was the seventh school shooting to occur in 2018, again sparking protests and another round of debates regarding America\u2019s gun control policies. The fact that America does not enforce seriously harsh restrictions on gun ownership is unquestionable, but whether or not America should emulate such laws&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}