{"id":10235,"date":"2015-07-20T16:05:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T16:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10235"},"modified":"2015-07-20T16:05:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T16:05:35","slug":"by-all-means-let-soldiers-carry-their-firearms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10235","title":{"rendered":"By all means, let soldiers carry their firearms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Gov. Greg Abbott has issued exactly the right order to allow Texas National Guard personnel to carry firearms while they are on their various military installations.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2015\/07\/18\/gov-greg-abbott-calls-national-guard-be-armed\/<\/p>\n<p>The order comes in the wake of the shooting deaths of four Marines and a sailor in Chattanooga, Tenn., by a young man.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott said: \u201cArming the National Guard at these bases will not only serve as a deterrent to anyone wishing to do harm to our service men and women, but will enable them to protect those living and working on the base.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, military personnel are trained in the use of firearms and they absolutely should have standing orders to carry them when the needs arise.<\/p>\n<p>If the governor sees the potential for violence &#8212; and the tragedy in Chattanooga suggests such potential exists anywhere &#8212; then it&#8217;s right for him to arm the men and women who are serving the state.<\/p>\n<p>My hope is that every governor in every state issues the same orders to the men and women in uniform under their respective commands.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Greg Abbott has issued exactly the right order to allow Texas National Guard personnel to carry firearms while they are on their various military installations. http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2015\/07\/18\/gov-greg-abbott-calls-national-guard-be-armed\/ The order comes in the wake of the shooting deaths of four Marines and a sailor in Chattanooga, Tenn., by a young man. Abbott said: \u201cArming the National &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10235\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">By all means, let soldiers carry their firearms<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18],"tags":[935,2006,4664],"class_list":["post-10235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","category-state-news","tag-chattanooga-shooting","tag-greg-abbott","tag-texas-national-guard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}