{"id":123165,"date":"2023-12-28T16:52:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T16:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=123165"},"modified":"2023-12-28T16:52:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T16:52:07","slug":"the-covenant-parents-arent-going-to-keep-quiet-on-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=123165","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Covenant Parents Aren\u2019t Going to Keep Quiet on Guns&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/12\/26\/us\/politics\/nashville-school-shooting-covenant-parents.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times<\/a>: &#8220;But the Tennessee legislature proved more hostile than the Covenant parents imagined. And when Ms. Joyce heard just one more gun rights supporter dismiss the parents\u2019 concerns after days of restraint, her patience snapped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The shooter at Covenant \u201chunted our children with a high-capacity rifle,\u201d Ms. Joyce cried out, her voice cracking, as she&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/Cwk1ofxLGYP\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">confronted<\/a>&nbsp;the gun rights supporter in the Capitol rotunda. He walked away, but not before suggesting she listen more closely to his arguments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI have held my composure,\u201d she said, now openly angry despite the crowd that had gathered. \u201cI have stayed calm. I have been silent and quiet and composed. And I am sick of it. Listen to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: &#8220;But the Tennessee legislature proved more hostile than the Covenant parents imagined. And when Ms. Joyce heard just one more gun rights supporter dismiss the parents\u2019 concerns after days of restraint, her patience snapped. The shooter at Covenant \u201chunted our children with a high-capacity rifle,\u201d Ms. Joyce cried out, her voice cracking, as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123166,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123165\/revisions\/123166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}