{"id":2995,"date":"2012-09-07T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/09\/07\/quote-of-day_7\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:19:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:19:28","slug":"quote-of-day_7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2995","title":{"rendered":"Quote Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15213,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.dailynebraskan.com\\\/opinion\\\/keenan-conceal-and-carry-policies-on-campus-would-spur-fear-distraction-1.2758360&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynebraskan.com\\\/opinion\\\/keenan-conceal-and-carry-policies-on-campus-would-spur-fear-distraction-1.2758360&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15214,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/.500_S%26W_Magnum&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/.500_S&amp;W_Magnum&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15215,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/nssf.org\\\/newsroom\\\/writers\\\/guide&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20170619164114\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.nssf.org:80\\\/newsroom\\\/writers\\\/guide\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 10:36:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 08:47:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-13 05:26:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-26 08:20:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-08 01:17:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-14 18:02:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-14 18:02:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynebraskan.com\/opinion\/keenan-conceal-and-carry-policies-on-campus-would-spur-fear-distraction-1.2758360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In an anti-conceal carry opinion piece written for the Daily Nebraskan<\/a>, the student paper at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Amanda Keenan has this howler:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>A final argument against concealed carry on campus is the level of discomfort generated from having a gun around. People go to institutions of higher learning mainly to get an education. Allowing guns in classrooms would prove to be a distraction more than they would be a necessity. Students would lose their concentration during tests and stare aimlessly <strong>as the lights reflected off the steel of a .57 magnum.<\/strong><\/i> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not that college students don&#8217;t already stare aimlessly during exams but seeing the lights reflecting off the steel of a .57 magnum must really be something. Imagine a pistol that makes the .<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/.500_S%26W_Magnum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">500 Smith and Wesson &#8211; currently the most powerful production&nbsp;handgun cartridge around<\/a> &#8211; look puny. Wow!<\/p>\n<p>I have a serious suggestion for young Ms. Keenan. The next time she plans to write on guns and gun issues I would suggest that she check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/nssf.org\/newsroom\/writers\/guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NSSF&#8217;s &#8220;Writer&#8217;s Guide to Firearms and Ammunition.&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;It would help her look a little less foolish even if she decides to stick with her backward ideas on campus carry.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an anti-conceal carry opinion piece written for the Daily Nebraskan, the student paper at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,&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":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1564,507,3640],"class_list":["post-2995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-campus-carry","tag-quote-of-the-day","tag-student-journalists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995","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=2995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8328,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions\/8328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}