{"id":58859,"date":"2016-05-20T10:10:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T15:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58859"},"modified":"2016-05-20T10:15:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T15:15:13","slug":"you-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58859","title":{"rendered":"Tricia Bishop:  Let The Courage Of Your Convictions Guide You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore Sun &#8220;reporter&#8221; Tricia Bishop, on her way to admitting she worries less about criminals than law-abiding gun owners (in Baltimore. \u00a0I&#8217;ll let that bit of knot-headedness sink in), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/opinion\/oped\/bs-ed-bishop-0108-20160107-story.html\">says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And so, as President Barack Obama announced plans this week to tighten background checks for gun buyers and increase gun tracking and research, I thought, that&#8217;s all well and good, but how about adding something immediately useful: a gun owner registry available to the public online \u2014 something like those for sex offenders. I&#8217;m not equating gun owners with predatory perverts, but the model is helpful here; I want a searchable database I can consult to find out whether my kid can have a play date at your house.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ms. Bishop: \u00a0First, how about we have a database of people who\u00a0<em>don&#8217;t\u00a0<\/em>like guns. \u00a0I mean, you&#8217;re\u00a0the ones trying to shave away at the edges of a constitutional right &#8211; isn&#8217;t the burden of, well, being burdened, on you?<\/p>\n<p>Why not let&#8217;s try this: \u00a0we put in in a public database that says:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I, TRICIA BISHOP, AM UNARMED AS A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And maybe post one of these in your yard:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/webpages.charter.net\/mad_prophet\/images\/gunfree.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You do that for a couple years, we can talk.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore Sun &#8220;reporter&#8221; Tricia Bishop, on her way to admitting she worries less about criminals than law-abiding gun owners (in Baltimore. \u00a0I&#8217;ll let that bit of knot-headedness sink in), says: And so, as President Barack Obama announced plans this week to tighten background checks for gun buyers and increase gun tracking and research, I thought, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,263,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-narrative-for-sale","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58859","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=58859"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58863,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58859\/revisions\/58863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}