{"id":2293,"date":"2010-06-28T13:26:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T17:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2293"},"modified":"2010-06-28T13:26:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T17:26:27","slug":"rep-murphy-praises-supreme-court-decision-on-gun-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/06\/28\/rep-murphy-praises-supreme-court-decision-on-gun-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Murphy praises Supreme Court decision on gun rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Supreme Court today struck down a quarter-century old ban on handguns in the city of Chicago &#8212; where 29 people were shot and three people killed by guns in just the last few days.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates of gun control have decried the decision as a misreading of the Constitution and an unwarranted intervention into local governance.<\/p>\n<p>Gun rights advocates, including Rep. Scott Murphy (D-Glens Falls), have praised the 5-4 Supreme Court vote as an affirmation of the 2nd Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Rep. Murphy&#8217;s statement, issued today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI commend the United States Supreme Court for     protecting our constitutional right to bear arms.\u00a0 I was honored to     lend my voice to this case by signing an Amicus Brief because the     government does not have the right to violate the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Amendment     and strip American citizens of this critical freedom.\u00a0 This landmark     decision will further strengthen the constitutional precedent and  protect     our rights from unjust laws for years to come.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Supreme Court today struck down a quarter-century old ban on handguns in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2294,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions\/2294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}