{"id":4490,"date":"2011-03-03T08:02:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T15:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=4490"},"modified":"2011-03-03T08:02:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T15:02:50","slug":"hooray-for-wyoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/03\/hooray-for-wyoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooray for Wyoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that was a long time coming, Wyoming just became the fourth state <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therepublic.com\/view\/story\/bf4b2ba3579e41cc9d1246517d5e235c\/WY-XGR--Concealed_Carry\/\" target=\"_blank\">to infringe less on people&#8217;s right<\/a> to carry concealed weapons. Congrats to all who worked so long for this.<\/p>\n<p>And &#8212; no surprise &#8212; a big BOO to Brady bunch spokesthing Paul Helmke, who managed to take the non-sequitur, straw-man, and <i>post hoc ergo propter hoc<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csun.edu\/~dgw61315\/fallacies.html\" target=\"_blank\">logical fallacies<\/a> to new lows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Helmke noted Arizona was the most recent state to allow concealed carry without a permit. And he noted that a man has been charged in the Jan. 8 shooting that killed six people at a congressional meet-and-greet Jan. 8 outside a Tucson supermarket. Thirteen other people were wounded including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for being patient while I took a mental health\/hooky day yesterday! It was great. Among other things, by driving an hour inland, I drove away from a storm and into placid, pleasant sunshiney shirtsleeve weather. Yahoo! Spring will come again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that was a long time coming, Wyoming just became the fourth state to infringe less on people&#8217;s right to carry concealed weapons. Congrats to all who worked so long for this. And &#8212; no surprise &#8212; a big BOO to Brady bunch spokesthing Paul Helmke, who managed to take the non-sequitur, straw-man, and post hoc ergo propter hoc logical fallacies to new lows: Helmke noted Arizona was the most recent state to allow concealed carry without a permit. And he noted that a man has been charged in the Jan. 8 shooting that killed six people at&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/03\/hooray-for-wyoming\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hooray for Wyoming<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-and-gun-rights","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}