{"id":53298,"date":"2015-05-14T08:16:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T13:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53298"},"modified":"2015-05-14T09:38:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T14:38:27","slug":"self-defense-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53298","title":{"rendered":"Self-Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written a few blog posts over the years about my occasional trips to Saint Paul City Hall. \u00a0There, before you go into the building, you go through, not so much a metal-detector, but an insatiable electronic would-be petty deity. \u00a0You could walk in there buck naked, and it&#8217;d beep, and the surly, cranky security guard would have you stand with your arms out and wand you. \u00a0I&#8217;ve literally made a game of it over time; I&#8217;ve tried to remove every possible bit of metal from my person. \u00a0The accursed machine has beeped, literally, over the metal in my shoes&#8217; shoelace eyelets.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve joked that maybe Saint Paul&#8217;s government would be more responsive, and responsible, if the machine and the sheriff&#8217;s deputies weren&#8217;t there; if the city government had to concern itself with irate citizens the way the rest of us do.<\/p>\n<p>And I was surprised &#8211; or, put another way, &#8220;not surprised in the least&#8221; &#8211; to see that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollcall.com\/hill-blotter\/guns-and-members-when-congress-protected-itself\/?dcz=\">there&#8217;s precedent for this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I say take away the metal detectors, and let government at all levels deal with its own security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written a few blog posts over the years about my occasional trips to Saint Paul City Hall. \u00a0There, before you go into the building, you go through, not so much a metal-detector, but an insatiable electronic would-be petty deity. \u00a0You could walk in there buck naked, and it&#8217;d beep, and the surly, cranky security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53298","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=53298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53300,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53298\/revisions\/53300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}