{"id":2442,"date":"2013-03-20T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/03\/20\/a-civic-minded-police-chief-who-takes\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:21:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:21:24","slug":"a-civic-minded-police-chief-who-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2442","title":{"rendered":"A Civic-Minded Police Chief Who Takes Self-Defense Seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13949,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.myfoxaustin.com\\\/story\\\/21725647\\\/thrall-police-to-offer-free-chl-courses&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20130323161236\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.myfoxaustin.com:80\\\/story\\\/21725647\\\/thrall-police-to-offer-free-chl-courses&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.myfoxaustin.com\\\/story\\\/21725647\\\/thrall-police-to-offer-free-chl-courses&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-03 04:55:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-03 04:55:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13950,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.myfoxaustin.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.myfoxaustin.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nAfter seeing the parades of big-city police chiefs testifying at gun control hearings, it is refreshing to see a police chief that not only believes in his citizen&#8217;s right to self-defense but is doing something to encourage it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxaustin.com\/story\/21725647\/thrall-police-to-offer-free-chl-courses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thrall (TX) Police Chief Whitney Whitworth <\/a>says he wants residents in his small Texas town to be able to protect themselves. He freely acknowledges that the police can&#8217;t always be there. So, to promote self-defense in his town, he is offering free Texas Concealed Handgun License classes to town residents. Chief Whitworth is a Texas certified CHL instructor and is offering the classes on his own time.<\/p>\n<p>Now that is what I call a civic-minded police chief!<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxaustin.com\/\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing the parades of big-city police chiefs testifying at gun control hearings, it is refreshing to see a&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":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[158,3201],"class_list":["post-2442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-concealed-carry","tag-thrall-pd-chief-whitney-whitworth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442","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=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8973,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions\/8973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}