{"id":48755,"date":"2015-12-07T09:15:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T16:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=48755"},"modified":"2015-12-06T19:21:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T02:21:29","slug":"how-the-gun-industry-avoided-the-fate-of-big-tobacco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2015\/12\/07\/how-the-gun-industry-avoided-the-fate-of-big-tobacco\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Gun Industry Avoided the Fate of Big Tobacco"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601508.us.archive.org\/24\/items\/uprising_2015_12_07\/Josh_Israel_2015_12_07.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601508.us.archive.org\/24\/items\/uprising_2015_12_07\/uprising_2015_12_07.mp3\">Listen to the full show <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><em>GUEST: <strong>Josh Israel<\/strong>, senior investigative reporter for ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He recently wrote an article for ThinkProgress called &#8216;The Gun Industry Has Systematically Demolished Regulators And Avoided The Fate Of Cigarettes&#8217;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The recent horrific massacre in San Bernardino, California, has raised many questions about what motived the killers, a young, newly married couple with a 6-month old child. The FBI is now investigating the shooting that left 14 dead, as a terrorism case. <\/p>\n<p>The incident is the deadliest since the Connecticut shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school nearly 3 years ago. It has once more raised the question of why the gun lobby has such a stranglehold on American politics that we are unable to regulate guns. In fact, just a day after the San Bernardino shooting, Senate Republicans voted down a measure that would have prevented people on the US terror watch list from purchasing firearms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUEST: Josh Israel, senior investigative reporter for ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He recently wrote an article for ThinkProgress called &#8216;The Gun Industry Has Systematically Demolished Regulators And Avoided The Fate Of Cigarettes&#8217;. The recent horrific massacre in San Bernardino, California, has raised many questions about what motived the killers, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48757,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48755\/revisions\/48757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}