{"id":59278,"date":"2016-06-21T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59278"},"modified":"2016-06-19T12:01:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T17:01:48","slug":"good-customers-with-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59278","title":{"rendered":"Good Customers With Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the pundits and talking heads make fervid proclamations about the Second Amendment &#8211; something many of them really just don&#8217;t get &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/2016\/06\/dean-weingarten\/minnesota-gas-station-discourages-robbers-by-offering-discount-fuel-for-gun-carriers\/\">free market is voting with its feet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAfter getting robbed twice over the last three months, the owner of a Shell gas station in Sauk Rapids wanted to get more customers during the evening, hoping it would improve safety,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kstp.com\/business\/sauk-rapids-gas-station-permit-to-carry-discount-national-attention\/4170282\/?cat=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">kstp.com<\/a>\u00a0reports. \u201cLast week, station owner Frank Schwagel <a href=\"http:\/\/kstp.com\/business\/sauk-rapids-gas-station-discount-concealed-carry\/4168876\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">offered a 10-cent-per-gallon discount<\/a> for law enforcement or people with proof of permit to carry after 7 p.m. each day.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got four trips through the area planned between now and the end of October. \u00a0 I&#8217;ll make a point of stopping at Schwagel&#8217;s store &#8211; even before 7PM, with no discount &#8211; to support them. \u00a0I hope you will too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the pundits and talking heads make fervid proclamations about the Second Amendment &#8211; something many of them really just don&#8217;t get &#8211; the free market is voting with its feet: \u201cAfter getting robbed twice over the last three months, the owner of a Shell gas station in Sauk Rapids wanted to get more customers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59278","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=59278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59279,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59278\/revisions\/59279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}