{"id":24346,"date":"2018-03-01T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rentonnews.us\/opinion\/nation-needs-stricter-gun-laws-not-more-guns-letter-to-the-editor\/"},"modified":"2018-03-01T14:58:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T22:58:00","slug":"nation-needs-stricter-gun-laws-not-more-guns-letter-to-the-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/letters\/nation-needs-stricter-gun-laws-not-more-guns-letter-to-the-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Nation needs stricter gun laws, not more guns | Letter to the Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, President Donald Trump wanted to put a law into effect that would give teachers the right to have guns in the school.<\/p>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t believe this is a good idea because it will give students an easier way of getting the guns or even a teacher could use the gun to hurt people.<\/p>\n<p>My opinion is that we should have much stricter gun laws so that it is harder for people who want to do wrong to obtain these weapons.<\/p>\n<p>We can do this by doing more extensive background checks, banning assault weapons which are the weapon of choice for mass shootings and private transactions of guns should go through a licensed firearms dealer.<\/p>\n<p>If the United States put these laws into effect, it would be much harder for people to obtain these guns and there would be less violence.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kishan Salay, a concerned citizen <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, President Donald Trump wanted to put a law into effect that would give teachers the right to have guns...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":24347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24346"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=24346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}