{"id":1104,"date":"2018-05-19T10:22:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T15:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2020-12-03T21:50:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T02:50:53","slug":"demand-the-ban-on-sale-of-assault-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"Demand the Ban (on sale of assault weapons)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fran and I participated (and were arrested) in the May 16 Demand the Ban (on the sale of assault weapons) nonviolent direct action outside Senator Toomey\u2019s office in Philla. First an assault weapon was melted and re-forged into a garden tool, which we carried <!--more-->to present to the Senator and to insist on his support for S2095 banning the sale of assault weapons. We arrived to find barriers surrounding the building housing his office, so those of us prepared to do civil disobedience sat down at the barrier entrances while others participated in the legal demonstration in the street. Eventually (in a misty rain) thirty-three of us were arrested and most of us were escorted to a nearby Sheriff&#8217;s bus where we were cited (Failure to disperse) and released (a sub-group was arrested by Federal police and cited in place). It was a particularly simple and expedient arrest, while I was fully prepared to stay there for as long as it took.<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Demand-the-Ban-banner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1105\" title=\"demand-the-ban-banner\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Demand-the-Ban-banner-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Demand-the-Ban-sitting-at-barricades1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-1107\" title=\"demand-the-ban-sitting-at-barricades\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Demand-the-Ban-sitting-at-barricades1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fran and I participated (and were arrested) in the May 16 Demand the Ban (on the sale of assault weapons) nonviolent direct action outside Senator Toomey\u2019s office in Philla. First an assault weapon was melted and re-forged into a garden tool, which we carried<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peace","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1270,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}