{"id":613743,"date":"2023-02-01T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=613743"},"modified":"2023-02-11T09:56:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T09:56:44","slug":"asian-americans-can-no-longer-be-silent-on-gun-laws-we-must-confront-threat-on-our-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/asian-americans-can-no-longer-be-silent-on-gun-laws-we-must-confront-threat-on-our-community","title":{"rendered":"Asian Americans can no longer be silent on gun laws. We must confront threat on our community."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the horror of the mass shooting&nbsp;in Monterey Park , California, was an astounding act of courage. Brandon Tsay , who was working&nbsp;at a nearby dance studio in Alhambra, disarmed the man who had just taken the lives of 11 Asian Americans. It was a selfless act that saved many lives the night of Jan. 21. But when told he had been called a hero, Tsay&nbsp;said, &#8220;A lot of people have been telling me how much courage I had. &#8230; But you know what courage is? Courage is not the absence of fear , but rather the ability to have adversity to fear when fearful events happen.&#8221; This idea, that courage isn&#8217;t a lack of fear but the ability to act in spite of it, is representative of our larger Asian American&nbsp;and Pacific Islander community. It is indicative of the experience of so many who have shown bravery in the face of violence, injustice and hatred, from early AAPI civil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the California mass shootings, like Brandon Tsay, we Asian Americans must acknowledge the threat of gun violence&#160;and find the courage to act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}