{"id":990,"date":"2013-03-21T21:22:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T20:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/?p=990"},"modified":"2013-03-21T21:22:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T20:22:09","slug":"department-of-good-news-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2013\/03\/21\/department-of-good-news-bad-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of good news-bad news"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Today on FairWarning (an excellent site, btw) there was a <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">good new<\/span><\/strong>s announcement that the governor of Colorado signed a bill restricting firearms. As of July 1,\u00a0background checks would be required for private and online gun sales and ammunition magazines holding more than 15 rounds would be banned. That is the good news. The <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>bad new<\/strong><\/span>s is that the same day a prison chief was shot and died \u00a0and Human Events (Powerful Conservative Voices) quoted \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/03\/17\/colorado-sheriff-says-new-state-gun-laws-wont-be-enforced\/#ixzz2NuM6BSyN\">Fox News<\/a>\u00a0saying that&#8221; local sheriffs are announcing they won\u2019t enforce the new laws. \u00a0Weld County Sheriff John Cooke said \u201cthey\u2019re feel-good, knee-jerk reactions that are unenforceable,\u201d and they give citizens \u201ca false sense of security.\u201d Editors comment: Will readers please explain what will give citizens a genuine sense of security?<\/h3>\n<p><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today on FairWarning (an excellent site, btw) there was a good news announcement that the governor of Colorado signed a bill restricting firearms. As of July 1,\u00a0background checks would be required for private and online gun sales and ammunition magazines holding more than 15 rounds would be banned. That is the good news. The bad [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2013\/03\/21\/department-of-good-news-bad-news\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2731],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}