{"id":32834,"date":"2015-02-04T14:29:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T19:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=32834"},"modified":"2015-02-04T14:29:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T12:19:12","slug":"sister-victim-tells-everytown-thing-saved-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/sister-victim-tells-everytown-thing-saved-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Sister of Victim Tells Everytown: &#8216;The only thing that would have saved her was a gun&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"sister-victim-tells-everytown-thing-saved-gun\" title=\"Sister of Victim Tells Everytown: 'The only thing that would have saved her was a gun'\">video.foxnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Everytown for Gun Safety employee attempted to recruit a young woman whose sister was fatally shot by a felon with a firearm, Fox News reports.  <\/p>\n<p>However, during the telephone conversation, it quickly became apparent that neither the woman nor her late sister share in Bloomberg&#8217;s vision of making America unarmed and defenseless.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very pro-gun, as is Jessie (the victim), so I would really hope that you guys don&#8217;t use her story for anything,&#8221; the woman told the Everytown representative.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Um, because the only thing that would have saved her was a gun,&#8221; she added.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epic fail for Everytown; sister of victim tells gun-control group, &#8220;The only thing that would have saved her was a gun.&#8221;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":32835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,241,216,240],"tags":[132],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-rapid-fire","9":"category-s-h-blannelberry","10":"category-this-week","11":"tag-buzz"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sister of Victim Tells Everytown: &#039;The only thing that would have saved her was a gun&#039;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Epic fail for Everytown; sister of victim tells gun-control group, &quot;The only thing that would have saved her was a gun.&quot;\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/sister-victim-tells-everytown-thing-saved-gun\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sister of Victim Tells Everytown: &#039;The only thing that would have saved her was a gun&#039;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Epic fail for Everytown; sister of victim tells gun-control group, &quot;The only thing that would have saved her was a gun.&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/sister-victim-tells-everytown-thing-saved-gun\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-02-04T19:29:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-18T12:19:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Everytown.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S.H. 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