{"id":2653,"date":"2008-06-03T07:33:47","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T12:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2653"},"modified":"2008-06-03T07:30:40","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T12:30:40","slug":"a-law-unto-himself-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2653","title":{"rendered":"A Law Unto Himself, Continued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Hester <a href=\"http:\/\/northernmuckraker.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/fletchers-follies-part-3.html\">is all over Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher&#8217;s dubious record at issuing\/renewing <em>legal <\/em>concealed carry permits<\/a>, in part three of a series (<a href=\"http:\/\/northernmuckraker.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/fletchers-follies-parts-1-and-2.html\">parts 1 and 2 here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As one can see by examining the tables, Ramsey County has consistently denied more than 11 percent of the handgun carry applications it has received, more than four times the rate denied by Hennepin County, which has the largest population in the state, and <em>more than 11 times<\/em> the rate of St. Louis County, which generally has a comparable number of applications. The question that immediately comes to mind is: Why is Ramsey County\u2019s handgun permit application denial rate so much higher than comparable counties, or even counties with a higher population and presumably a much higher crime rate?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Hester is all over Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher&#8217;s dubious record at issuing\/renewing legal concealed carry permits, in part three of a series (parts 1 and 2 here): As one can see by examining the tables, Ramsey County has consistently denied more than 11 percent of the handgun carry applications it has received, more [&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-2653","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\/2653","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=2653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}