{"id":18809,"date":"2013-01-08T03:10:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T02:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rt.com\/usa\/news\/us-gun-appreciation-day-551\/"},"modified":"2013-01-08T03:10:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T02:10:37","slug":"us-conservatives-ring-in-gun-appreciation-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-conservatives-ring-in-gun-appreciation-day\/","title":{"rendered":"US conservatives ring in Gun Appreciation Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/files\/usa\/news\/us-gun-appreciation-day-551\/variety-enthusiasts-handguns-gun.n.jpg\" width=\"370\" height=\"277\" alt=\"Gun enthusiasts inspect a variety of handguns. (AFP Photo \/ Karen Bleier)\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"VideoDescription\" class=\"grey mv10\">Gun enthusiasts inspect a variety of handguns. (AFP Photo \/ Karen Bleier)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Gun-lovers in the US can finally let their enthusiasm show without fear &#8211; on Gun Appreciation Day, which a coalition of right-wing organizations has designated as January 19.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers are calling on Americans to patronize gun stores and shooting ranges on the day in a display of pro-gun unity.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;holiday&#8221; will fall two days before US President Barack Obama is scheduled to be sworn in for his second term. It&#8217;s no coincidence\u00a0\u2014 American &#8220;gun rights&#8221; advocates allege that the Obama administration has attacked the constitutional principles regulating gun ownership.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Obama administration has shown that it is more than willing to trample the Constitution to impose its dictates upon the American people<\/em>,&#8221; said Gun Appreciation Day chairman Larry Ward.<\/p>\n<p>The second amendment to the US constitution guarantees &#8220;well-regulated militias&#8221; the right to bear arms.<\/p>\n<p>Following the mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut last month, in which 26 people, mostly small children, were killed, Obama has said he would support a ban on military-style assault weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The day&#8217;s organizers, made up of about a dozen pro-gun groups, say they expect 50 million Americans to back to initiative, AFP reports.<\/p>\n<p>January 19th is also a National Day of Service, an initiative started by the Obama administration in hopes that Americans would take a day to give back to their communities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/files\/usa\/news\/us-gun-appreciation-day-551\/variety-enthusiasts-handguns-gun.n.jpg\" width=\"370\" height=\"277\" alt=\"Gun enthusiasts inspect a variety of handguns. (AFP Photo \/ Karen Bleier)\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Gun enthusiasts inspect a variety of handguns. (AFP Photo \/ Karen Bleier)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Gun-lovers in the US can finally let their enthusiasm show without fear &#8211; on Gun Appreciation Day, which a coalition of right-wing organizations has designated as January 19.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers are calling on Americans to patronize gun stores and shooting ranges on the day in a display of pro-gun unity.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;holiday&#8221; will fall two days before US President Barack Obama is scheduled to be sworn in for his second term. It&#8217;s no coincidence&nbsp;&ndash; American &#8220;gun rights&#8221; advocates allege that the Obama administration has attacked the constitutional principles regulating gun ownership.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Obama administration has shown that it is more than willing to trample the Constitution to impose its dictates upon the American people<\/em>,&#8221; said Gun Appreciation Day chairman Larry Ward.<\/p>\n<p>The second amendment to the US constitution guarantees &#8220;well-regulated militias&#8221; the right to bear arms.<\/p>\n<p>Following the mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut last month, in which 26 people, mostly small children, were killed, Obama has said he would support a ban on military-style assault weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The day&#8217;s organizers, made up of about a dozen pro-gun groups, say they expect 50 million Americans to back to initiative, AFP reports.<\/p>\n<p>January 19th is also a National Day of Service, an initiative started by the Obama administration in hopes that Americans would take a day to give back to their communities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}