{"id":50973,"date":"2022-03-20T18:40:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T18:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50973"},"modified":"2022-03-20T18:40:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T18:40:18","slug":"wheres-the-self-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50973","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s the &#8216;self defense&#8217;?"},"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 class=\"has-drop-cap\">Another shooting broke out in south Dallas overnight. Someone was killed in an apparent drive-by incident; an individual fired a weapon at an individual and the cops are trying to investigate the cause of it.<\/p>\n<p>OK. Now, let\u2019s back up a bit. The Texas Legislature in 2021 enacted a law that Gov. Greg Abbott signed to make it legal for any yahoo in Texas to pack a firearm. No training required. Anyone can pack heat. Sure, they have to pass a background check and not have a felony conviction on their record.<\/p>\n<p>The idea \u2014 if I recall it correctly \u2014 was to allow more guns on the streets to enable individuals to defend themselves against morons who open fire with these weapons.<\/p>\n<p>What is disturbing and dangerous in the extreme is that damn few media reports we see and hear and read mention anyone firing back in \u201cself-defense.\u201d The shootings involve dipsh**s firing weapons while arguing with someone. We hear about the road rage incidents when someone pulls a gun and starts firing after being cut off in traffic.<\/p>\n<p>If this open carry legislation is designed make us \u201csafer\u201d by enabling Texans to use these weapons to defend themselves and others, then why aren\u2019t we hearing more reporting about it? I think I know why. It\u2019s because it isn\u2019t happening!<\/p>\n<p>With that I want to offer a word of \u201cthanks\u201d to Gov. Abbott and the Legislature for putting us in even more danger \u2026 you\u00a0<em>morons!<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/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>Another shooting broke out in south Dallas overnight. Someone was killed in an apparent drive-by incident; an individual fired a weapon at an individual and the cops are trying to investigate the cause of it. OK. Now, let\u2019s back up a bit. The Texas Legislature in 2021 enacted a law that Gov. Greg Abbott signed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50973\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where&#8217;s the &#8216;self defense&#8217;?<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2006,2037,3419],"class_list":["post-50973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-greg-abbott","tag-gun-violence","tag-open-carry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50973","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=50973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50974,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50973\/revisions\/50974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}