{"id":37841,"date":"2019-03-28T20:22:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T20:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37841"},"modified":"2019-03-28T20:22:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T20:22:48","slug":"how-to-sell-a-massacre-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37841","title":{"rendered":"How to sell a massacre Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"71.1688654354\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">How should you respond to a deadly mass shooting if you are a gun rights advocate?<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">First, &#8220;Say nothing.&#8221; If media queries persist, go on the &#8220;offence, offence, offence&#8221;. Smear <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/issues\/gun-control.html\">gun control<\/a> groups. &#8220;Shame them&#8221; with statements such as &#8211; &#8220;How dare you stand on the graves of those children to put forward your political agenda?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">This was the advice the US&#8217;s most powerful gun lobby gave <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/australia.html\">Australia<\/a>&#8216;s One Nation party, according to an Al Jazeera investigation, when representatives of the Australian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/spotlight\/politics.html\">far-right<\/a> group sought guidance from the National Rifle Association (NRA) on loosening the Pacific country&#8217;s strict gun laws.<\/p>\n<p>The NRA&#8217;s playbook on mass shootings came to light during the course of a three-year undercover sting by Al Jazeera&#8217;s Investigative Unit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How should you respond to a deadly mass shooting if you are a gun rights advocate? First, &#8220;Say nothing.&#8221; If media queries persist, go on the &#8220;offence, offence, offence&#8221;. Smear gun control groups. &#8220;Shame them&#8221; with statements such as &#8211; &#8220;How dare you stand on the graves of those children to put forward your political&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}