{"id":981,"date":"2012-12-23T09:26:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T13:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=981"},"modified":"2012-12-23T09:26:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T13:26:48","slug":"sunday-23-december-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2012\/12\/23\/sunday-23-december-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, 23 December 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">08:26 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> The lead story in the paper this morning is about the Winston-Salem Gun &#038; Knife show, which is currently running. It&#8217;s an annual two-day event, running from Saturday morning through Sunday afternoon. The all-time record attendance was several years ago, when 6,400 people attended. As of 11:00 a.m. yesterday, 2,500 people had already attended, so it seems likely they&#8217;ll shatter the attendance record this year.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I do wish our politicians would repeal the Gun Control Act of 1968, which made mail-order gun sales illegal. That way, people wouldn&#8217;t have to drive all the way to a gun show to buy guns. They could just order them on-line from Amazon or eBay. While they&#8217;re at it, they should repeal the National Firearms Act of 1934, which put controls on automatic weapons, sawn-off shotguns, silencers, and destructive devices. Both are unConstitutional, and in their absence we could simply order anything we needed on Amazon. The first things I&#8217;d order would be a couple of G3&#8217;s, a small supply of Stingers, and a few RPG antitank missiles.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08:26 &#8211; The lead story in the paper this morning is about the Winston-Salem Gun &#038; Knife show, which is currently running. It&#8217;s an annual two-day event, running from Saturday morning through Sunday afternoon. The all-time record attendance was several years ago, when 6,400 people attended. As of 11:00 a.m. yesterday, 2,500 people had already attended, so it seems likely they&#8217;ll shatter the attendance record this year.\n<\/p>\n<p>I do wish our politicians would repeal the Gun Control Act of 1968,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2012\/12\/23\/sunday-23-december-2012\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Sunday, 23 December 2012 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}