{"id":3508,"date":"2018-12-01T13:25:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T18:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2018-12-01T13:25:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T18:25:22","slug":"letter-of-resignation-sent-by-bush-to-rifle-association-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/2018\/12\/letter-of-resignation-sent-by-bush-to-rifle-association-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter of Resignation Sent By Bush to Rifle Association (New York Times)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"132\" data-total-count=\"132\">&#8220;Following is the letter of resignation sent by former President George Bush to the National Rifle Association: May 3, 1995&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"132\" data-total-count=\"132\">&#8220;I was outraged when, even in the wake of the Oklahoma City tragedy, Mr. Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of N.R.A., defended his attack on federal agents as &#8220;jack-booted thugs.&#8221; To attack Secret Service agents or A.T.F. people or any government law enforcement people as &#8220;wearing Nazi bucket helmets and black storm trooper uniforms&#8221; wanting to &#8220;attack law abiding citizens&#8221; is a vicious slander on good people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"132\" data-total-count=\"132\">&#8220;I am a gun owner and an avid hunter. Over the years I have agreed with most of N.R.A.&#8217;s objectives, particularly your educational and training efforts, and your fundamental stance in favor of owning guns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"302\" data-total-count=\"2154\">However, your broadside against Federal agents deeply offends my own sense of decency and honor; and it offends my concept of service to country. It indirectly slanders a wide array of government law enforcement officials, who are out there, day and night, laying their lives on the line for all of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1995\/05\/11\/us\/letter-of-resignation-sent-by-bush-to-rifle-association.html\">Read more at New York Times here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Following is the letter of resignation sent by former President George Bush to the National Rifle Association: May 3, 1995&#8221; &#8220;I was outraged when, even<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Cgx5-UA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3509,"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions\/3509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}