{"id":42538,"date":"2014-06-12T18:31:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T00:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/12\/gun-totintude.html"},"modified":"2014-06-12T22:44:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T04:44:30","slug":"gun-totintude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/12\/gun-totintude.html","title":{"rendered":"Gun-Totintude"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">A post I was reading earlier today got me thinking about carrying of guns. I can imagine some (very limited) circumstances where someone could argue that they need to do concealed-carry. The number of cases where someone has an actual need to open-carry a pistol &#8230; well, I struggle with thinking of one.<\/p>\n<p>But open-carry of a long arm? \u00a0If you&#39;re not in the woods hunting (or concerned about being hunted)? I can honestly say that I cannot imagine a single rational reason for doing so, except to intimidate and posture. Neither of those are crimes, to be sure, but I&#39;m pretty sure they&#39;re\u00a0not why the Founders passed the Second Amendment, either.<\/p>\n<p>(cartoon from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/06\/12\/1305939\/-Cartoon-How-to-recognize-an-open-carry-patriot\">http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/06\/12\/1305939\/-Cartoon-How-to-recognize-an-open-carry-patriot<\/a>)\ufeff<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-photo-primary'><img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-T8JOiai4Brk\/U5pFKbyKS4I\/AAAAAAACvQc\/si4IG6A1aks\/1192ckCOMIC-open-carry-patriots%5B1%5D.png?imgmax=1024' border='0' style='max-width:100%;' \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/78p8kN6TCbg' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post I was reading earlier today got me thinking about carrying of guns. I can imagine some (very limited) circumstances where someone could argue that they need to do concealed-carry. The number of cases where someone has an actual need to open-carry a pistol &#8230; well, I struggle with thinking of one. But open-carry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/12\/gun-totintude.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gun-Totintude&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,298],"tags":[586],"class_list":["post-42538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-guns","tag-pluspost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1192ckCOMIC-open-carry-patriots[1].png.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131052,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/10\/the-risk-of-multiple-shooters.html","url_meta":{"origin":42538,"position":0},"title":"The risk of &quot;multiple shooters&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 10-Jul-16 10:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"During the Dallas police shooting, matters were serious complicated by a number of protesters who showed up with slung semi-automatic weapons, in accord with Texas' Open Carry laws. 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