{"id":48138,"date":"2021-05-28T03:58:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T03:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48138"},"modified":"2021-05-28T03:58:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T03:58:24","slug":"what-about-those-texas-pols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48138","title":{"rendered":"What about those Texas pols?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By John Kanelis<\/strong> \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

As we travel around the country and we tell folks that we hail from Texas, I get a certain question in various forms.<\/p>\n

It goes something like this: What is going on in Texas, with those politicians down there?<\/em><\/p>\n

One of the issues that drives the question deals with what they call in Austin “constitutional carry” of firearms. Gov. Greg Abbott is going to sign a bill that enables any Texan who isn’t a convicted felon to carry a firearm with any permit.<\/p>\n

That’s right. Any yahoo who wants to pack a pistol on his hip can do so. There you go. More guns makes us a safer place, the politicians tell us.<\/p>\n

My answer to the question is that I do not understand what rattles around in the noggins of those who think of such idiocy. I am left to utter a four-letter word or two to describe Gov. Abbott, a politicians I for whom I used to harbor positive personal feelings. Not any longer, man.<\/p>\n

The political climate in the state where my family and I have lived for nearly 40 years is giving me the willies.<\/p>\n\n

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By John Kanelis \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com As we travel around the country and we tell folks that we hail from Texas, I get a certain question in various forms. It goes something like this: What is going on in Texas, with those politicians down there? One of the issues that drives the question deals with what … Continue reading What about those Texas pols?<\/span> →<\/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":[2037,3419,4674],"class_list":["post-48138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-gun-violence","tag-open-carry-2","tag-texas-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48138","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=48138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48139,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48138\/revisions\/48139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}