{"id":48088,"date":"2021-05-21T21:18:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T21:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48088"},"modified":"2021-05-21T21:23:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T21:23:42","slug":"permitless-carry-oh-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48088","title":{"rendered":"Permitless carry? Oh, boy!"},"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><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/guns.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41935\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/guns-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/guns-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/guns.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By John Kanelis<\/strong> \/ <a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Texas state senators and state House members are so proud of themselves. They should be ashamed.<\/p>\n<p>They have struck a compromise that clears the way for enactment of a &#8220;constitutional carry&#8221; bill that allows Texans to pack heat without passing even a simple test to determine that they know what to do with a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>They say they are protecting &#8220;law-abiding citizens'&#8221; right to carry weapons. As if the state&#8217;s current concealed carry law wasn&#8217;t enough? Get real, man.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2021\/05\/20\/texas-constitutional-carry\/\">Texas constitutional carry deal made, author of House bill says | The Texas Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I find this legislation to be an abomination beyond belief.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Greg Abbott says he&#8217;ll sign the bill when it gets to his desk. Big surprise there. Actually, it isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>This is an absurd notion, making it easier for Texans carry firearms into public places.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s life in Texas, I suppose. I&#8217;ll just have to mind my Ps and Qs even more going forward.<\/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>By John Kanelis \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com Texas state senators and state House members are so proud of themselves. They should be ashamed. They have struck a compromise that clears the way for enactment of a &#8220;constitutional carry&#8221; bill that allows Texans to pack heat without passing even a simple test to determine that they know what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48088\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Permitless carry? Oh, boy!<\/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":[18],"tags":[2038,3419,4653],"class_list":["post-48088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-guns","tag-open-carry-2","tag-texas-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48088","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=48088"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48091,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48088\/revisions\/48091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}