{"id":4560,"date":"2009-04-13T06:46:43","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T11:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4560"},"modified":"2009-04-13T06:46:43","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T11:46:43","slug":"sanity-and-its-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4560","title":{"rendered":"Sanity And Its Enemies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Missouri House of Representatives voted to allow concealed-carry permittees to carry and (in the case of students) store their firearms on the U of Missouri campus.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transterrestrial.com\/?p=17983\">Athat&#8217;s got the usual pants-wetting crowd in an uproar<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cMissouri\u2019s college students should be allowed to learn and exchange ideas in an environment free from the threat of concealed guns,\u201d University of Missouri System President Gary Forsee said in a news release Thursday. \u201cIt is hard to imagine that such a proposal could gain support given the magnitude of gun-related tragedies experienced on college campuses across the country.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes, it is hard to imagine, given the illogical hysteria on the subject, much of it fed by the media.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>And realize &#8211; as President Foresee, the failed former CEO of Verizon, apparently does not &#8211; that the people with the <em>permits <\/em>are not the ones doing the fraternity pranks and playing the drinking games, much less the ones shooting up classes, like happened in the &#8220;gun free zones&#8221; at Virginia Tech and Columbine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Missouri House of Representatives voted to allow concealed-carry permittees to carry and (in the case of students) store their firearms on the U of Missouri campus. Of course, Athat&#8217;s got the usual pants-wetting crowd in an uproar \u201cMissouri\u2019s college students should be allowed to learn and exchange ideas in an environment free from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-free-zones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560","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=4560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}