{"id":1671,"date":"2014-06-07T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T13:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2014\/06\/07\/balanced-report-on-open-carry-in\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:24:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:24:10","slug":"balanced-report-on-open-carry-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1671","title":{"rendered":"Balanced Report On Open Carry In Texas&#8230;.From NPR?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11780,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.npr.org\\\/2014\\\/06\\\/06\\\/319552462\\\/open-carry-activists-bear-arms-in-the-streets-and-chipotle&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.npr.org\\\/2014\\\/06\\\/06\\\/319552462\\\/open-carry-activists-bear-arms-in-the-streets-and-chipotle&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nWhen the Complementary Spouse got home from work yesterday, she told she had just listened to a report on open carry in Texas that was rather balanced. The report was on NPR&#8217;s All Things Considered afternoon news show.<\/p>\n<p>After I listened to it, I agreed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/06\/06\/319552462\/open-carry-activists-bear-arms-in-the-streets-and-chipotle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The report by John Burnett<\/a> interviewed Cory Watkins of Open Carry Tarrant County, C.J. Grisham of OCT, Stephanie Lundy of Everytown Moms for Illegal Mayors, and Alice Tripp of the Texas State Rifle Association.<\/p>\n<p>\nAlice Tripp made the point that open carry of ARs and AKs in restaurants was not helping get open carry of handguns passed in the Texas legislature. She is quoted as saying, &#8220;It&#8217;s not helpful. It&#8217;s not good manners. It&#8217;s not thoughtful. It&#8217;s not conducive to facilitating the legislative process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report was balanced enough to note that both Republican Greg Abbott and Democrat Wendy Davis were in support of allowing Texans to open carry handguns. Coming from NPR, who woulda thunk it?<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/06\/06\/319552462\/open-carry-activists-bear-arms-in-the-streets-and-chipotle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">whole report at this link<\/a>. I had tried to embed it but it just wouldn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Complementary Spouse got home from work yesterday, she told she had just listened to a report on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[526,370,604],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-npr","tag-open-carry-activism","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9898,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions\/9898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}