{"id":51065,"date":"2015-02-04T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T18:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51065"},"modified":"2015-02-07T12:00:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T18:00:56","slug":"absolute-moral-authority-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51065","title":{"rendered":"Absolute Moral Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Cindy Sheehan?<\/p>\n<p>The woman whose soldier son was killed in action in Iraq, and became an anti-war crusader, and a hero of the left (until she started attacking Barack Obama, when she became an untouchable). \u00a0Before she parted ways with the left, the left said her ordeal gave her &#8220;absolute moral authority&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And indeed it&#8217;s not unusual for people to grant a little extra credence and tolerance to people who&#8217;ve directly suffered because of something they&#8217;re protesting against.<\/p>\n<p>So I expect lefties with integrity to belly up behind a Colorado bill drafted by a Columbine survivor, which would allow law-abiding citizens with carry permits to carry at schools:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Colorado Rep. Patrick Neville, R-Castle Rock, was a student at Columbine High School in 1999 when two seniors went on a massacre that killed 13. Now he has introduced legislation that would allow anyone with a concealed weapons permit to be able to conceal and carry in public schools,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.denverpost.com\/thespot\/2015\/02\/02\/former-columbine-student-wants-firearms-schools\/116942\/\" target=\"_blank\">according to The Denver Post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis bill will allow honest law-abiding citizens to carry a concealed firearm for protection if they choose to,\u201d Neville said in a statement. \u201cBut most importantly, it will give them the right to be equipped to defend our children from the most dangerous situations.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Can you hear that? \u00a0That&#8217;s moral authority talking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Cindy Sheehan? The woman whose soldier son was killed in action in Iraq, and became an anti-war crusader, and a hero of the left (until she started attacking Barack Obama, when she became an untouchable). \u00a0Before she parted ways with the left, the left said her ordeal gave her &#8220;absolute moral authority&#8221;. And indeed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-free-zones","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51065","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=51065"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51170,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51065\/revisions\/51170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}