{"id":33754,"date":"2021-04-08T14:46:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T21:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33754"},"modified":"2021-04-08T14:46:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T21:46:01","slug":"us-gun-violence-an-international-embarrassment-says-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33754","title":{"rendered":"US gun violence &#8216;an international embarrassment,&#8217; says Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">President Biden on Thursday decried the epidemic of gun violence in America as an &#8220;international embarrassment&#8221; as he rolled out a series of executive actions intended to address the issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nothing I\u2019m about to recommend in any way impinges on the Second Amendment,&#8221; Biden said in the Rose Garden. &#8220;They&#8217;re phony arguments suggesting these are Second Amendment rights at stake with what we\u2019re talking about. But no amendment, no amendment to the Constitution is absolute.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So the idea is just bizarre to suggest that some of the things we\u2019re recommending are contrary to the Constitution,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Gun violence in this country is an epidemic. And it\u2019s an international embarrassment.&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden on Thursday decried the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33755,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33754\/revisions\/33755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}