{"id":14252,"date":"2016-11-01T07:32:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T07:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=14252"},"modified":"2016-11-01T07:32:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T07:32:14","slug":"burr-jokes-about-gun-owners-putting-a-bulls-eye-on-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/elections\/burr-jokes-about-gun-owners-putting-a-bulls-eye-on-clinton.html","title":{"rendered":"Burr jokes about gun owners putting a &#8216;bull&#8217;s-eye&#8217; on Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Burr jokes about gun owners putting a &#8216;bull\u2019s-eye&#8217; on Clinton<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Burr jokes about gun owners putting a &#8216;bull&#8217;s-eye&#8217; on Clinton:-<\/strong> Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., is apologizing for joking about gun owners putting a &#8220;bull\u2019s-eye\u201d on Hillary Clinton.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14253\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/636113685833375586-AP-Senate-2016-North-Carolina.jpg\" alt=\"636113685833375586 Ap Senate 2016 North Carolina\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/636113685833375586-AP-Senate-2016-North-Carolina.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/636113685833375586-AP-Senate-2016-North-Carolina-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u201cNothing made me feel any better then \u2014 I walked into a gun shop &#8230; there was a copy of Rifleman on the counter, it&#8217;s got a picture of Hillary Clinton on the front of it,\u201d Burr said, referring to American Rifleman, the official publication of The NRA. &#8220;I was a little bit shocked at that it didn&#8217;t have a bull\u2019s-eye on it.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Burr continued: &#8220;But on the bottom right, it had everybody for federal office in this particular state that they should vote for. So let me assure you, there\u2019s an army of support out there right now for our candidates.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Burr, the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman, was speaking to GOP volunteers in <\/span>Moorseville<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">, N.C., on Saturday when he made the comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8220;The comment I made was inappropriate, and I apologize for it,&#8221; Burr said in a Monday statement to CNN, which first reported the story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Burr is in a tight race for his seat against former Democratic state senator Deborah Ross in North Carolina.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Donald Trump drew criticism in August for suggesting that &#8220;Second Amendment people&#8221; could stop Clinton from appointing anti-gun judges. Trump, speaking at a rally in Wilmington, N.C., warned that Clinton opposes the Second Amendment and would appoint Supreme Court justices who would block gun rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8220;If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks,\u201d Trump said before adding: &#8220;Though the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Minutes later, the Trump campaign issued a statement saying that Trump meant people who support the Second Amendment are unified and will vote together. Meanwhile, Democrats \u2014 including Clinton \u2014 quickly accused Trump of suggesting violence against the Democratic nominee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/onpolitics\/2016\/10\/31\/burr-jokes-gun-owners-putting-bullseye-clinton\/93093086\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/elections\/burr-jokes-about-gun-owners-putting-a-bulls-eye-on-clinton.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burr jokes about gun owners putting a &#8216;bull\u2019s-eye&#8217; on Clinton Burr jokes about gun owners putting a &#8216;bull&#8217;s-eye&#8217; on Clinton:- Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., is apologizing for joking about gun owners putting a &#8220;bull\u2019s-eye\u201d on Hillary Clinton. \u201cNothing made me feel any better then \u2014 I walked into a gun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[966],"tags":[8675],"class_list":["post-14252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","tag-burr-jokes-about-gun-owners-putting-a-bulls-eye-on-clinton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}