{"id":2133,"date":"2008-02-18T08:46:29","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T13:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2008-02-16T08:48:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-16T13:48:41","slug":"uneventful-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2133","title":{"rendered":"Uneventful, As Usual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Bronson of the Cincinnati Enquirer <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cincinnati.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2008802030326\">took the Ohio concealed carry class.<\/a>  And he notices something I&#8217;ve seen from at least the few journalists who&#8217;ve bothered to learn the topic:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From what I can tell, legal concealed carry is nothing like the anti-gun crowd made it sound when Kentucky and Ohio passed laws in 1999 and 2004. There are no cowboys. No wild shootouts. No blood in the gutters, as gun-banners predicted. Just law-abiding adults who want to exercise their Second Amendment right to self-defense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And this one &#8211; a lesson that&#8217;d seem to have eluded most of Minnesota&#8217;s remaining concealed carry opponents:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If every gun owner took a class like this, we&#8217;d all be safer. But meth-heads, crack junkies and street muggers don&#8217;t take classes. They don&#8217;t get permits or certificates like the one Lengle gave me Sunday. They just grab a &#8220;nine&#8221; and use it against defenseless victims.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/joelrosenberg.livejournal.com\/\">Rosenberg<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Bronson of the Cincinnati Enquirer took the Ohio concealed carry class. And he notices something I&#8217;ve seen from at least the few journalists who&#8217;ve bothered to learn the topic: From what I can tell, legal concealed carry is nothing like the anti-gun crowd made it sound when Kentucky and Ohio passed laws in 1999 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}