{"id":58427,"date":"2016-04-19T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58427"},"modified":"2016-04-15T23:13:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T04:13:55","slug":"todays-real-american-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58427","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Real American Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri Democrat introduces an amendment to &#8220;prove a point&#8221; about the &#8220;absurdity&#8221; of open carry&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and loses track of time, and is unable to withdraw the amendment.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rep Deb Lavender (D) introduced an amendment to a bill dealing with open carry and [concealed carry permittees]. Her amendment would open the capitol building up to lawful carry of firearms for every lawful citizen rather than just for the elected officials.<\/p>\n<p>I think she was about to withdraw the amendment during her closing argument when she talked her way through the 1 minute limit for her closing speech and the speaker slammed the gavel and opened the board for her amendment to be voted on.<\/p>\n<p>SHE TALKED SO LONG SHE RAN OUT OF TIME TO WITHDRAW HER AMENDMENT.<\/p>\n<p>The amendment passed with about 115 voting YES and now the proposed bill is an even stronger 2nd amendment bill because of her amendment.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.625;\">Which passed. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri Democrat introduces an amendment to &#8220;prove a point&#8221; about the &#8220;absurdity&#8221; of open carry&#8230; &#8230;and loses track of time, and is unable to withdraw the amendment. Rep Deb Lavender (D) introduced an amendment to a bill dealing with open carry and [concealed carry permittees]. Her amendment would open the capitol building up to lawful [&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-58427","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\/58427","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=58427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58428,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58427\/revisions\/58428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}