{"id":40235,"date":"2013-12-02T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40235"},"modified":"2013-12-11T10:38:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T16:38:55","slug":"40235","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40235","title":{"rendered":"From A Planet With Several Moons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/statelocal\/233561071.html?page=2&amp;c=y\" target=\"_blank\">Heather Martins talking<\/a>.\u00a0 Lying.\u00a0 Same thing.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">\u201cThere is no history of someone like that being a meaningful deterrent or being able to stop an attack,\u201d she said.\u00a0 Seriously?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">Someone should inform Abby Simons, the Star Tribune journalist who wrote the article, of some facts about permitted carry holders stopping crime, just for the variety of citing actual truth for a change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">It strikes me: \u00a0Rep. Paymar says the presence of armed citizens in the legislative chamber intimidates legislators.\u00a0 Pistols carried openly are intimidating. Really?\u00a0 All of them?\u00a0 How about when cops testify while in uniform, openly carrying their firearms, is that intimidating?\u00a0 If so, then you should disarm everybody in the hearing room, which you\u2019re not going to do because there\u2019d be nobody to provide protection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">If openly carried pistols don\u2019t intimidate you on a policeman\u2019s belt, why not?\u00a0 Cops shoot far more innocent people every year than permitted carry holders.\u00a0 Why are pistols carried openly on cops\u2019 belts not intimidating?\u00a0 Because you trust cops implicitly but not citizens?\u00a0 Why is that\u00a0. . .\u00a0and what does it say about your attitude toward the people you\u2019re supposed to be representing?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If intellectual honesty and logical consistency were gasoline, Heather Martens couldn&#8217;t drive around the inside of a Cheerio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Heather Martins talking.\u00a0 Lying.\u00a0 Same thing. \u201cThere is no history of someone like that being a meaningful deterrent or being able to stop an attack,\u201d she said.\u00a0 Seriously? Someone should inform Abby Simons, the Star Tribune journalist who wrote the article, of some facts about permitted carry holders stopping [&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":[201],"class_list":["post-40235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament","tag-heather-martens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40235","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=40235"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40463,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40235\/revisions\/40463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}