{"id":60367,"date":"2016-09-21T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60367"},"modified":"2016-09-21T06:50:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T11:50:10","slug":"60367","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60367","title":{"rendered":"Chill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Rep. Keith Ellison introduced the <a href=\"https:\/\/ellison.house.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/rep-ellison-introduces-campus-gun-policy-transparency-act\"><span class=\"s2\">Campus Gun Policy Transparency Act<\/span><\/a> which would require colleges to disclose their policies relating to guns on campus.\u00a0 He claims existing federal law requires colleges to publish campus safety information but not specific policies related to guns.\u00a0 In addition, he claims colleges are not required to report gun-related crime statistics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u201cStudents have a right to know if their fellow students are bringing guns to class.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">No, they don\u2019t.\u00a0 They don\u2019t have a right to know if their fellow students had an abortion, voted for Democrats, worship in a mosque or drive a Prius.\u00a0 Those are all private activities, nobody\u2019s business but your own.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">There is no evidence that guns on campus cause crime (and that\u2019s not due to lack of reporting statistics \u2013 if there were lots of shootings on campus, emergency room records would be conclusive proof).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">The only possible reason for requiring a federal campus gun policy but not a campus abortion policy, mosque policy or campus Prius policy, it to chill Second Amendment rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">So, pretty much par for the course for Democrats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">To a conservative, rights are endowed to us by our creator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">To a liberla, &#8220;rights&#8221; are perks granted to us by a benevolent government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Rep. Keith Ellison introduced the Campus Gun Policy Transparency Act which would require colleges to disclose their policies relating to guns on campus.\u00a0 He claims existing federal law requires colleges to publish campus safety information but not specific policies related to guns.\u00a0 In addition, he claims colleges are not [&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-60367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-free-zones","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60369,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60367\/revisions\/60369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}