{"id":3466,"date":"2012-03-09T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/03\/09\/city-council-that-gets-i\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:17:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:17:51","slug":"city-council-that-gets-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3466","title":{"rendered":"A City Council That Gets It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16152,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.gastongazette.com\\\/articles\\\/city-68465-permits-concealed.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.gastongazette.com\\\/articles\\\/city-68465-permits-concealed.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gastongazette.com\/articles\/city-68465-permits-concealed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Gastonia (NC) City Council voted Tuesday evening<\/a> to allow concealed carry in all areas of that city&#8217;s parks. The vote was 6-1 and came despite a recommendation from the Gastonia Recreation Advisory Commission to impose a ban on concealed carry in athletic facilities.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The city\u2019s 6-1 vote, with only Councilman Dave Kirlin opposing, went against a 5-0 recommendation of the Gastonia Recreation Advisory Commission. The commission wanted to allow licensed, concealed weapons in public parks, but to continue to ban them in the more specific recreational areas.<\/p>\n<p>But Councilman Jim Gallagher was one of the six who favored a hands-off approach from government control. People with concealed weapon permits have proven themselves trustworthy and responsible, and imposing any restriction on them is unfair and unnecessary, he said.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cThis is a slippery slope and it\u2019s just going to go downhill,\u201d Gallagher said of potential restrictions. \u201cThe second amendment is clear. Our founding fathers wanted us to protect ourselves.\u201d<\/b><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a City Council that gets it and one whose move to allow their citizens to protect themselves should be applauded. This statement by Councilwoman Brenda Craig who holds a NC Concealed Handgun Permit herself shows it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>\u201cI agree with the second amendment, bottom line,\u201d she said. \u201cIf people have been trained to handle that weapon and have their permit, they\u2019re responsible.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is the key &#8211; CHP holders have been vetted, are responsible, and not the one&#8217;s you have to worry about. I just wish more city councils in North Carolina would realize that.<\/p>\n<p>\nH\/T Harvey<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gastonia (NC) City Council voted Tuesday evening to allow concealed carry in all areas of that city&#8217;s parks.&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":[158,3907,2457,3908],"class_list":["post-3466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-concealed-carry","tag-gastonia-city-council","tag-hb-650","tag-parks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466","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=3466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7778,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions\/7778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}