{"id":24601,"date":"2018-03-06T08:19:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T13:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=24601"},"modified":"2018-03-06T08:19:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T13:19:17","slug":"letter-dont-be-fooled-barrar-doesnt-support-gun-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=24601","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Don’t be fooled, Barrar doesn’t support gun control"},"content":{"rendered":"

To The Editor,<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In the wake of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Florida, we saw the same cycle of reaction from politicians. A lot of thoughts and prayers were offered. Some possible legislation was floated. But no real action was taken.<\/p>\n

Representative Stephen Barrar of the 160th, however, did take action. He co-sponsored House Bill 1400, which would create universal background checks for every gun sale in Pennsylvania. \u201cWe are all taken back by this tragedy and are asking ourselves: how can this keep happening?\u201d Barrar explained, in his statement on HB 1400. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Representative Barrar, to answer you, politicians like yourself are how this keeps happening. Over the last decade, Barrar has been staunchly against House Bill 1400 every time it\u2019s been introduced. He\u2019s been against any type of sensible gun policies. In that same decade, our country has experienced mass shooting after mass shooting. Of the thirty worst mass shootings to happen within modern U.S. history, 18 of them have occured within the last 10 years. This is not a new problem we\u2019re facing. It\u2019s an old one that only has gotten worse with time and technology.<\/p>\n

What has changed then? Why has Representative Barrar changed his mind? It\u2019s not because he suddenly woke up and realized that parents are sending their children to school, worried they might not see them again. It\u2019s not because going to the movies now requires a warning before the film to report any suspicious behavior. It\u2019s certainly not because he\u2019s asking himself \u201chow can this keep happening?\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s because he knows that the tide is changing. The citizens of the 160th district are no longer willing to accept a entrenched, right-wing politician who is unwilling to take any action to protect our children. He knows that now, more than ever, voters are fired up. He knows the next generations are tired of the thoughts and prayers. He knows his days are numbered if he continues down this path.<\/p>\n

Do not be fooled. Stephen Barrar has not changed. He will not be a leader on this issue. He knows that HB 1400 has very little hope of leaving the committee it\u2019s in. And he knows that November 6th is not that far away.<\/p>\n

So go vote. And let him know you\u2019re not fooled.<\/p>\n

Cathy Spahr<\/strong><\/p>\n

Democratic Candidate,<\/strong><\/p>\n

160th District<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To The Editor, In the wake of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Florida, we saw the same cycle of reaction from politicians. A lot of thoughts and prayers were offered. Some possible legislation was floated. But no real action was taken. Representative Stephen Barrar of the 160th, however, did take action. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[878,8969,1165,1862,1597],"class_list":["post-24601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-160th-district","tag-election-2018","tag-gun-control","tag-politics","tag-stephen-barrar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24602,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24601\/revisions\/24602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}