{"id":8750,"date":"2012-01-19T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=8750"},"modified":"2012-01-19T09:23:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T16:23:00","slug":"four-tourists-who-probably-dont-heart-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/19\/four-tourists-who-probably-dont-heart-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"Four tourists who probably don’t [heart] NY"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve been hearing about the seeming hordes of tourists and businessfolk who in recent weeks made the mistake of imagining that New York City has semi-sane gun laws.<\/p>\n

And you wonder, don’t you, how the heck any gun owner could be so oblivious<\/i>? There’ve been so many newsbits since mid-December about naive out-of-staters deliberately exposing themselves to NYC anti-gun Authoritah that we could be forgiven for imagining that there’s some mysterious species of gun-owning lemming that heads eastward to its doom at this time of year.<\/p>\n

One well-known gun-rights writer and one semi-hemi-demi-pseudo-quasi famous one have taken that issue on this week:<\/p>\n

In an article appearing today at Paladin Press, I delve into the old question of “Ignorance of the law …”<\/a> (I am, of course, totally in favor of ignoring<\/i> most law; but that’s not the same thing.)<\/p>\n

And earlier this week, John Lott mused in print about whether those bumbling NYC visitors should have to pay for their folly<\/a>. (The Lott article has some confusing omissions in it and isn’t up-to-date on developments in one case; it’s still a good one.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’ve been hearing about the seeming hordes of tourists and businessfolk who in recent weeks made the mistake of imagining that New York City has semi-sane gun laws. And you wonder, don’t you, how the heck any gun owner could be so oblivious? There’ve been so many newsbits since mid-December about naive out-of-staters deliberately exposing themselves to NYC anti-gun Authoritah that we could be forgiven for imagining that there’s some mysterious species of gun-owning lemming that heads eastward to its doom at this time of year. One well-known gun-rights writer and one semi-hemi-demi-pseudo-quasi famous one have taken that issue on…<\/p>\n

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