{"id":12565,"date":"2018-04-12T20:08:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T20:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/people-power-beats-the-nra-in-vermont\/"},"modified":"2018-04-12T20:08:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T20:08:26","slug":"tinalo-ng-people-power-ang-nra-sa-vermont","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/tl\/articles\/people-power-beats-the-nra-in-vermont\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinalo ng People Power ang NRA sa Vermont"},"template":"","class_list":["post-12565","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Vermonters love hunting and about half own guns, but the Green Mountain State is standing up to the NRA to impose sensible gun restrictions","featured_image":null,"article_type":1103,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":8577}"],"related_issues":[132,137,2066,2082],"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Years of inaction on hugely popular gun control bills in Congress and state legislatures across the nation has convinced millions of Americans that the National Rifle Association and its money have a stranglehold on our democracy.\r\n\r\nSo, the news this morning that Vermont\u2019s Republican governor has signed three laws aimed at keeping firearms away from people who shouldn\u2019t be trusted with them, and limiting the lethality of those weapons, is a sign of democracy\u2019s resilience and cause for celebration well beyond the Green Mountain State.\r\n\r\nThe bills include restrictions that \u201cwould have been unimaginable\u201d in Vermont just a few months ago, the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/story\/news\/politics\/government\/2018\/04\/10\/vermont-gun-restrictions-what-happen-when-scott-signs-gun-bills\/494160002\/\">Burlington Free Press<\/a><\/strong>observed in a story on Wednesday\u2019s signing ceremony. Now, in the aftermath of nationwide demonstrations last month in which millions of Americans demanded action to curb gun violence, the unimaginable is becoming real.\r\n\r\nOne of the new Vermont laws bans the sale of \u201cbump\u201d stocks, devices that can be attached to butt of a semi-automatic rifle to make it a virtual machine gun, and limits the capacity of ammunition magazines. Others raise the legal age for gun purchases to 21, with an exception for younger people who\u2019ve completed hunter safety courses or are serving in the military, and require that all gun sales \u2013 other than those from one family member to another \u2013 be made by licensed gun dealers.\r\n\r\nGov. Phil Scott, who carried an \u201cA\u201d rating from the NRA before announcing he would sign the bills, was heckled by pro-gun demonstrators as he explained why he reversed his longstanding opposition to gun control. He acknowledged that some past supporters are \u201cdisappointed and angry\u201d over his conversion.\r\n\r\nVermont carries a reputation for liberal politics; it\u2019s home to Sen. Bernie Sanders, the most prominent leader of the Democratic Party\u2019s progressive wing, and was the first state to give full marriage rights to same-sex couples. But Vermont also is home to thousands of hunters,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/437015\/mapped-the-us-states-with-the-most-gun-owners-and-most-gun-deaths\/\"><strong>na may hindi bababa sa isang may-ari ng baril sa halos kalahati ng mga kabahayan ng estado<\/strong>.<\/a>\r\n\r\nScott said Wednesday that his shift from gun control opponent to supporter began with February\u2019s mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, FL and accelerated dramatically two days later, when police in Fair Haven, VT arrested a student who allegedly was plotting to shoot up his high school.\r\n\r\n\u201cI support the Second Amendment,\u201d Scott said, \u201cbut I had to ask myself, \u2018Are we truly doing everything we can to make our kids and communities safer?\u2019 Because if we\u2019re at a point where our kids are afraid to go to school, and parents are afraid to put them on a bus, or police don\u2019t have the tools they need to protect victims of violence, or families can\u2019t step in to prevent a loved one from taking their own life \u2014 then who are we?\u201d\r\n\r\nScott also used the signing ceremony to sound an alarm about the nasty tone of American political discourse.\r\n\r\n\u201cAs a society, we should all reflect on how we treat one another, and the example we\u2019re setting for our kids,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause I believe our violence issue is fueled by our anger issue. Our national dialogue has been reduced to angry, hateful social media posts that you can either like or not, with no room for conversation or respect or disagreement, and where facts and details no longer seem to matter.\u201d\r\n\r\n###"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>People Power Beats the NRA in Vermont - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/tl\/mga-artikulo-2\/tinalo-ng-people-power-ang-nra-sa-vermont\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"People Power Beats the NRA in Vermont\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/tl\/mga-artikulo-2\/tinalo-ng-people-power-ang-nra-sa-vermont\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonCause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CC-Share-Graphic-Main9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CommonCause\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/people-power-beats-the-nra-in-vermont\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/people-power-beats-the-nra-in-vermont\/\",\"name\":\"People Power Beats the NRA in Vermont - 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