{"id":350313,"date":"2018-03-01T08:50:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T07:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/thoughts-and-prayers-are-not-enough\/"},"modified":"2018-03-01T08:50:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T07:50:06","slug":"thoughts-and-prayers-are-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/thoughts-and-prayers-are-not-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Thoughts and Prayers Are Not Enough\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2nd-amendment\/2018\/02\/28\/dicks-sporting-goods-bans-gun-sales-thoughts-prayers-not-enough\/\"><strong>Breitbart<\/strong><\/a><br \/>February 28, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>DICK\u2019s Sporting Goods announced their decision to stop selling all \u201cassault-style\u201d weapons in their stores and banning sales to anyone under 21.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The corporate <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/pressroom.dicks.com\/press-information\/media-statements.aspx?camp=sns::20180227:CS2015:am:end:&amp;utm_medium=Social%20DSG&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_campaign=CS2015&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=20180227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a> was sent in response to the teen-aged gun control activists after the Parkland high school shooting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur thoughts and prayers are with all of the victims and their loved ones. But thoughts and prayers are not enough,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>The popular sporting goods retailer said they will no longer sell firearms to anyone under 21 years of age, and will no longer sell \u201cassault-style\u201d weapons in their stores and their Field &amp; Stream stores. 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The corporate statement was sent in response to the teen-aged gun control activists after the Parkland high school shooting. \u201cOur thoughts and prayers are with all of the victims and [&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-350313","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\/350313","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=350313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}