{"id":12438,"date":"2018-03-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/john-howard-speaks-out-about-us-gun-control-on-fiveaa\/"},"modified":"2018-03-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T00:00:00","slug":"john-howard-speaks-out-about-us-gun-control-on-fiveaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/john-howard-speaks-out-about-us-gun-control-on-fiveaa\/","title":{"rendered":"John Howard Speaks Out About US Gun Control On FIVEAA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Former Prime Minister John Howard says there looks to be some positive signs on US gun control following the high school shooting in Florida last month.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"958\" width=\"638\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/howard-gun-quote.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cWhat is so encouraging is the mobilisation of young people,\u201d Mr Howard told FIVEAA. \u201cIf you could have a march on Washington from young people equivalent to the civil rights marches of the 1960s it would be a transforming event.\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cI\u2019m encouraged by what President Trump has said and done. It may well be that a person coming the republican side of American politics in a sort of <em>Nixon-goes-to-China<\/em> context could well be the turning point, we\u2019ll have to wait and see.\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cIf America as a result of this most recent tragedy begins to turn her back on the mass proliferation of guns, that would be a wonderful thing. It will save many thousands of American lives of all ages years into the future.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>LISTEN:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/407293980&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Prime Minister John Howard says there looks to be some positive signs on US gun control following the high school shooting in Florida last month. \u201cWhat is so encouraging is the mobilisation of young people,\u201d Mr Howard told FIVEAA. \u201cIf you could have a march on Washington from young people equivalent to the civil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-12438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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