{"id":22443,"date":"2013-05-06T11:03:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T16:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=22443"},"modified":"2013-05-07T22:09:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T03:09:17","slug":"pincus-attacked-by-anti-gunners-for-home-defense-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/pincus-attacked-by-anti-gunners-for-home-defense-advice\/22443\/","title":{"rendered":"Pincus Attacked by Anti-Gunners for Home Defense Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22446\" alt=\"RobPincusNRAshow2013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/RobPincusNRAshow2013.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" \/>NRA speaker Rob Pincus is under heavy fire for remarks made at the National Rifle&#8217;s Association&#8217;s Annual Meeting last week when he suggested putting gun safes kids&#8217; bedrooms. The comments and video were picked up by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/05\/04\/nra-speaker-gun-safes-kids-bedrooms-home-defense_n_3216157.html?utm_hp_ref=tw\" target=\"_blank\">The Huffington Post<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2013\/05\/05\/what-piece-of-seemingly-benign-advice-from-an-nra-speaker-has-liberal-sites-up-in-arms\/\"> The Blaze<\/a>. Even Bette Midler got in the bashing, calling Pincus an &#8220;idiot&#8221; via Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, Pincus said there would be some &#8220;emotional pushback&#8221; to his suggestion, but also stated that there is &#8220;absolutely nothing wrong with staging the gun where you&#8217;re most likely to barricade&#8221; during an intrusion.<\/p>\n<p>The video of the complete statement can be seen below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">httpvh:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rZnL9DE2GXQ<\/p>\n<p>Rob spoke six times during the three-day event, with over 3,000 attendees in total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NRA speaker Rob Pincus is under heavy fire for remarks made at the National Rifle&#8217;s Association&#8217;s Annual Meeting last week when he suggested putting gun safes kids&#8217; bedrooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":22446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[3599],"class_list":["post-22443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bloggers","tag-rob-pincus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}