{"id":3048,"date":"2018-05-20T05:13:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T05:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/politics\/cory-gardner-pushes-to-give-police-officers-new-body-armor\/52"},"modified":"2018-05-20T05:13:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T05:13:52","slug":"cory-gardner-pushes-to-give-police-officers-new-body-armor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/?p=3048","title":{"rendered":"Cory Gardner pushes to give police officers new body armor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2018\/04\/13\/trump_marijuana_68702_s2048x1365.jpg?157fd7a2b2da4a762ebf407a263d15da8e5779ba' \/><\/p>\n<h2>Sen. Cory Gardner introduced a new proposal to give every law enforcement officer body armor strong enough to absorb shots from a rifle.<\/h2>\n<p><p>Sen. Cory Gardner introduced a new proposal to give every law enforcement officer body armor strong enough to absorb shots from a rifle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost have vests, but not the right kind,\u201d Mr. Gardner, Colorado Republican, said on Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>He said that a stronger type of body armor may have saved the fallen officer killed in his state in the past week. Four officers were ambushed after responding to an incident, leaving one policeman and wounding three others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis would equip our officers with type III body armor that\u2019s good for rifles. Some of the things that could\u2019ve protected the officers in Colorado,\u201d Mr. Gardner said.<\/p>\n<p>Most officers currently have a type of armor, but it\u2019s not as strong as type III, or has been worn down. The senator acknowledged that the new protective gear would be more expensive, but said that he thinks it\u2019s an expense worth making.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is going to be expensive there\u2019s no doubt about it, but this country sent $1.7 billion to Iran. I think we can find $1 billion to back the blue,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Cory Gardner introduced a new proposal to give every law enforcement officer body armor strong enough to absorb shots from a rifle. Sen. Cory Gardner introduced a new proposal to give every law enforcement officer body armor strong enough to absorb shots from a rifle. \u201cMost have vests, but not the right kind,\u201d Mr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-3048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}