{"id":56884,"date":"2016-01-22T11:30:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T17:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56884"},"modified":"2020-07-28T17:59:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T22:59:53","slug":"our-illogical-ninny-overlords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56884","title":{"rendered":"Our Illogical Ninny Overlords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Told that the State Capitol Police wanted to hold &#8220;active shooter&#8221; training for the legislature and its staff, Rep. Kim Norton decided to introduce a bill repealing last year&#8217;s law allowing law-abiding carry permittees to have their legally-carried firearms in the Capitol complex.<\/p>\n<p>And the logic was&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;entertaining:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-56887\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/screenshot-www.facebook.com-2015-12-31-15-34-52-1.png\" alt=\"screenshot-www.facebook.com 2015-12-31 15-34-52\" width=\"1001\" height=\"116\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/screenshot-www.facebook.com-2015-12-31-15-34-52-1.png 1001w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/screenshot-www.facebook.com-2015-12-31-15-34-52-1-300x35.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/screenshot-www.facebook.com-2015-12-31-15-34-52-1-768x89.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/screenshot-www.facebook.com-2015-12-31-15-34-52-1-1000x116.png 1000w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/screenshot-www.facebook.com-2015-12-31-15-34-52-1-500x58.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1001px) 100vw, 1001px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If law-abiding citizens can&#8217;t bring guns to the capitol, criminals won&#8217;t shoot anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Just like nobody sells crack, drives over the speed limit or after too much to drink, or robs liquor stores any more; because they are\u00a0<em>laws\u00a0<\/em>against each.<\/p>\n<p>Norton is wrong, by the way;\u00a0<em>at least\u00a0<\/em>18 states allow law-abiding citizens to carry their legal firearms in the state Capitols in one way or another.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the reason so many Real Americans have such a hard time taking gun-grabbers seriously; they&#8217;re not serious.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Told that the State Capitol Police wanted to hold &#8220;active shooter&#8221; training for the legislature and its staff, Rep. Kim Norton decided to introduce a bill repealing last year&#8217;s law allowing law-abiding carry permittees to have their legally-carried firearms in the Capitol complex. And the logic was&#8230; &#8230;entertaining: &nbsp; If law-abiding citizens can&#8217;t bring guns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,340,132,22],"tags":[422],"class_list":["post-56884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-free-zones","category-lie-first","category-mn-legislature","category-victim-disarmament","tag-kim-norton-idiot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56884","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=56884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56888,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56884\/revisions\/56888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}