{"id":317415,"date":"2017-07-15T06:36:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T05:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/hundreds-of-americans-protest-against-nra-over-gun-violence\/"},"modified":"2017-07-15T06:36:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T05:36:47","slug":"hundreds-of-americans-protest-against-nra-over-gun-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/hundreds-of-americans-protest-against-nra-over-gun-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Americans protest against NRA over gun violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Hundreds of Americans have rallied against the National Rifle Association near Washington, DC, demanding an end to gun violence and stronger checks for gun owners.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Roughly 1,000 people gathered on Friday in front of the NRA headquarters Fairfax, Virginia, a Washington suburb, holding placards and chanting slogans against gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>The protest, which was planned by organizers of January\u2019s Women\u2019s March on Washington, will end after a 17-mile (about 27 kilometers) rally to the US Department of Justice in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters called on the NRA to remove a video posted in April called \u201cThe Violence of Lies.\u201d The co-president of the Women\u2019s March, Tamika Mallory, said the video \u201csuggests armed violence against communities of color, progressives and anyone who does not agree with this Administration\u2019s policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some experts say the National Rifle Association (NRA), one of the most influential lobbying groups in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/07\/15\/528507\/US-NRA-protest-guns\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Americans have rallied against the National Rifle Association near Washington, DC, demanding an end to gun violence and stronger checks for gun owners. Roughly 1,000 people gathered on Friday in front of the NRA headquarters Fairfax, Virginia, a Washington suburb, holding placards and chanting slogans against gun violence. The protest, which was planned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-317415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317415","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}