{"id":32718,"date":"2018-02-28T11:38:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T16:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32718"},"modified":"2018-02-28T11:38:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T16:38:27","slug":"americans-tend-to-think-for-themselves-they-are-becoming-wary-of-the-media-trying-to-manipulate-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32718","title":{"rendered":"Americans Tend To Think For Themselves&#8211;They Are Becoming Wary Of The Media Trying To Manipulate Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/poll-shock-50-back-arming-teachers-nra-boycott-hurts-boycotting-firms-not-gun-lobby\/article\/2650265\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Examiner<\/a> posted the results of two polls regarding the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"National Rifle Association\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8630555556,-77.3355&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8630555556,-77.3355 (National%20Rifle%20Association)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">National Rifle Association (NRA)<\/a> and arming <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Teacher\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Teacher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">teachers<\/a> in their classrooms. The results are somewhat surprising considering how the media has covered the recent <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"School shooting\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/School_shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">school shooting<\/a> in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Florida\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=28.1,-81.6&amp;spn=3.0,3.0&amp;q=28.1,-81.6 (Florida)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">Florida<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The results of the first poll are shown below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/NRAPoll.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32719\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/NRAPoll.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"813\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/NRAPoll.png 813w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/NRAPoll-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/NRAPoll-768x570.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/NRAPoll-404x300.png 404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 813px) 100vw, 813px\" \/><\/a>The next poll deals with the idea of arming teachers:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Arming-teachers.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Arming-teachers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"714\" height=\"740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Arming-teachers.png 714w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Arming-teachers-289x300.png 289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px\" \/><\/a>Gun-free zones are simply a message to those wanting to harm others that there will be no opposition to them in that zone. It creates an area where our children and their teachers are sitting ducks to a shooter. We have armed <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Security guard\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Security_guard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">security guards<\/a> in banks, at airports, and other public places where valuable things are. Shouldn&#8217;t we provide the same protection for our children? We should also make sure that any armed guards know to run toward the gunfire&#8211;not simply let it happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today The Washington Examiner posted the results of two polls regarding the National Rifle Association (NRA) and arming teachers in their classrooms. The results are somewhat surprising considering how the media has covered the recent school shooting in Florida. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32718\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[140,11417,3286,11418,11416],"class_list":["post-32718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-florida","tag-marjory-stoneman-douglas-high-school","tag-national-rifle-association","tag-parkland","tag-school-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32721,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32718\/revisions\/32721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}