{"id":48770,"date":"2022-05-27T09:10:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T16:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48770"},"modified":"2022-05-27T09:10:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T16:10:27","slug":"democrats-aim-for-modest-deal-on-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48770","title":{"rendered":"Democrats aim for modest deal on guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Democrats say they are ready to accept a modest deal on gun-control legislation as they are eager to get something done in response to mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Texas, even if it falls below their ambitions of previous years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A bipartisan group of nine senators met Thursday afternoon to chart out a path for negotiation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They say their top priorities are proposals to expand background checks and encourage states to set up red-flag laws to prohibit people deemed dangerous to themselves or others from owning firearms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Democrats acknowledged from the outset that whatever deal they get is likely to be modest since it needs at least 10 Republican votes to overcome a filibuster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Democrats say they are ready&#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-48770","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\/48770","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=48770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48771,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48770\/revisions\/48771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}