{"id":6919,"date":"2014-05-29T13:42:56","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T19:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=6919"},"modified":"2014-05-29T14:22:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T20:22:44","slug":"enough-is-enough-notonemore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wtf\/enough-is-enough-notonemore\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough is enough. #NotOneMore"},"content":{"rendered":"

FURG<\/a>!<\/p>\n

\u2018Immediate action\u2019 on gun control sought | Albuquerque Journal News<\/a> <\/p>\n

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By Kimberly Kindy \/ The Washington Post <\/a>
PUBLISHED: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 at 12:13 am <\/p>\n

GOLETA, Calif. \u2013 Richard Martinez grew up around guns, shooting birds out of the fruit trees on his family\u2019s farm. He later served as a military police officer in the U.S. Army before going on to become a criminal-defense lawyer, at times representing the young and the violent. <\/p>\n

Now, Martinez is a grieving father. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s asking members of Congress to stop calling him to offer condolences but nothing more for the death of his only child, Christopher Michaels-Martinez, who was killed in the rampage Friday in Santa Barbara, Calif. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t care about your sympathy. I don\u2019t give a (expletive) that you feel sorry for me,\u201d Richard Martinez said during an extensive interview, his face flushed as tears rolled down. \u201cGet to work and do something. I\u2019ll tell the president the same thing if he calls me. Getting a call from a politician doesn\u2019t impress me.\u201d <\/p>\n

Saying that \u201cwe are all to blame\u201d for the death of his 20-year-old son, Martinez urged the public to join him in demanding \u201cimmediate action\u201d from members of Congress and President Barack Obama to curb gun violence by passing stricter gun-control laws. <\/p>\n

\u201cToday, I\u2019m going to ask every person I can find to send a postcard to every politician they can think of with three words on it: \u2018Not one more,<\/strong>\u2019 \u201d he said Tuesday. \u201cPeople are looking for something to do. I\u2019m asking people to stand up for something. Enough is enough<\/strong>.\u201d <\/p>\n

Martinez is the latest tragic figure to raise the mantle of gun control. Previous massacres and spasms of violence have produced urgent calls for new restrictions. <\/p>\n

But these appeals have failed to translate into action by Washington. Nor have they significantly changed public opinion about further regulation of weapons. <\/p>\n

Martinez vowed that he\u2019s not going away.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u2018Immediate action\u2019 on gun control sought | Albuquerque Journal News<\/a><\/p>\n