{"id":4651,"date":"2014-02-07T01:47:43","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T01:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=4651"},"modified":"2014-02-07T01:47:43","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T01:47:43","slug":"guns-in-capitol-building-i-dont-think-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4651","title":{"rendered":"Carry guns in the open? I don&#8217;t think so"},"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>State Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, is taking heat from her liberal supporters for advocating a law that allows people to carry guns openly.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic candidate for governor is making a mistake with that one.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2014\/02\/06\/davis-takes-friendly-fire-gun-issue\/<\/p>\n<p>Texas&#8217;s concealed handgun carry law has worked better than I ever thought it would. However, there ought to be some restrictions on where and how people can pack heat. The concealed carry law works. Why broaden it?<\/p>\n<p>I can remember when the concealed carry law debate began in 1995. Our newspaper opposed it. Why? We believed street-corner shootouts could occur in cases of road rage gone amok. We were wrong.<\/p>\n<p>However, I remember vividly my boss at the time, publisher Garet von Netzer, questioning then-state Sen. Teel Bivins, R-Amarillo, about the law. Bivins supported the legislation allowing concealed handgun carry. Von Netzer asked Bivins point-blank &#8212; no pun intended &#8212; &#8220;If it&#8217;s such a good idea, why don&#8217;t you just allow folks to strap six-shooters on their hips? For that matter, why not allow them in the Capitol Building?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The question caught Bivins flat-footed, if memory serves.<\/p>\n<p>It was a good thing to ask then and it&#8217;s good to ask the likes of Wendy Davis now. <\/p>\n<p>Concealed-carry laws are sufficient. Why change what&#8217;s working?<\/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>State Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, is taking heat from her liberal supporters for advocating a law that allows people to carry guns openly. The Democratic candidate for governor is making a mistake with that one. http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2014\/02\/06\/davis-takes-friendly-fire-gun-issue\/ Texas&#8217;s concealed handgun carry law has worked better than I ever thought it would. However, there ought to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4651\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Carry guns in the open? I don&#8217;t think so<\/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":[1099,2025,4653,5218],"class_list":["post-4651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-concealed-handgun-carry","tag-gun-control","tag-texas-legislature","tag-wendy-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651","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=4651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}