{"id":73606,"date":"2020-03-21T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73606"},"modified":"2020-03-19T04:15:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T09:15:57","slug":"absolute-moral-authority-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73606","title":{"rendered":"Absolute Moral Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Patrick Neville &#8211; a survivor of the Columbine Massacre, and a Colorado State Representative &#8211; is pushing a bill that&#8217;d allow qualified Colorado school staff to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/onpolitics\/2016\/02\/24\/columbine-survivor-pushes-for-guns-in-schools-colorado\/80876462\/?fbclid=IwAR0PBKUo7BT9G5gw7UkgMxuXit9Xe-g4i4kcUO9vjsN8eQdj5Vup1qpsPMQ\">carry their legal firearms for self-defense<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThe only thing that is going to stop murderers intent on doing harm is to give good people the legal authority to carry a gun to protect themselves and our children,\u201d Neville said in a statement,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/270420-columbine-survivor-calls-for-guns-in-schools\">according to\u00a0<em>The Hill<\/em><\/a>.<\/p><p>\u201cMore of my friends would still be alive today.\u201d<\/p><p>The bill put forward by Neville, a Republican, would let\u00a0teachers with concealed weapons permits carry guns at the state&#8217;s schools in an\u00a0attempt to halt future shootings.<\/p><p>Neville introduced the same bill last year,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/231445-columbine-lawmaker-pushing-for-guns-in-schools\">which failed<\/a>.<\/p><p>\u201cUnfortunately, the current system continues to leave our children as sitting targets for criminals intent on doing harm,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Big Left, of course, only grants a platform to the <em>right <\/em>survivors.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this sort of thing needs to be pushed in front of the public early and often.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Neville &#8211; a survivor of the Columbine Massacre, and a Colorado State Representative &#8211; is pushing a bill that&#8217;d allow qualified Colorado school staff to carry their legal firearms for self-defense: \u201cThe only thing that is going to stop murderers intent on doing harm is to give good people the legal authority to carry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[265],"class_list":["post-73606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament","tag-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73606","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=73606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73607,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73606\/revisions\/73607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}