{"id":4028,"date":"2013-11-21T02:15:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T02:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=4028"},"modified":"2013-11-21T02:15:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T02:15:29","slug":"now-its-smitherman-standing-up-for-gun-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4028","title":{"rendered":"Now it&#8217;s Smitherman standing up for gun owners"},"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>Barry Smitherman is the latest Texas politicians to state the obvious.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s all for the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the one that guarantees Americans the right to own firearms.<\/p>\n<p>My reaction to that? <em>Duh!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/11\/20\/smitherman-focuses-second-amendment-new-web-ad\/<\/p>\n<p>Smitherman, a Republican, currently serves on the three-member Texas Railroad Commission, the agency that regulates the oil and natural gas industry in Texas. He wants to become the state&#8217;s next attorney general. Smitherman&#8217;s web ad proclaims his undying support for the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, another Republican, recently posted a web ad that says the same thing as he seeks to become the state&#8217;s lieutenant governor.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to look for the courage it took Smitherman to declare his support for gun owners. Texas isn&#8217;t a lot of other states. Gun ownership is virtually a given here. Our state&#8217;s popular culture practically <em>requires<\/em> people to own guns. Texas was among the first states to enact a concealed handgun carry law. <\/p>\n<p>Barry Smitherman is a sophisticated individual. He stands a very good chance of being elected attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>He cannot go wrong by declaring he supports Texans&#8217; right to own guns. Put another way, Smitherman has exhibited a profound command of the obvious.<\/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>Barry Smitherman is the latest Texas politicians to state the obvious. He&#8217;s all for the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the one that guarantees Americans the right to own firearms. My reaction to that? Duh! http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/11\/20\/smitherman-focuses-second-amendment-new-web-ad\/ Smitherman, a Republican, currently serves on the three-member Texas Railroad Commission, the agency that regulates the oil and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4028\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now it&#8217;s Smitherman standing up for gun owners<\/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":[1],"tags":[550,1096,4585,4684],"class_list":["post-4028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barry-smitherman","tag-concealed-carry-law","tag-texas-attorney-general","tag-texas-railroad-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028","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=4028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}