{"id":22828,"date":"2014-05-21T22:37:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T02:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22828"},"modified":"2014-05-21T22:37:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T02:37:28","slug":"we-need-a-little-common-sense-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22828","title":{"rendered":"We Need A Little Common Sense Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/christinerousselle\/2014\/05\/21\/nc-restaurant-with-no-guns-allowed-sign-robbed-at-gunpoint-n1841472\" target=\"_blank\">Townhall.com<\/a> posted an article today about a robbery in a North Carolina restaurant. Unfortunately, robberies in restaurants are not unusual and thus do not usually make the news, but this robbery had some special circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>North Carolina restaurant The Pit was <a href=\"http:\/\/abc11.com\/news\/durham-police-investigate-armed-robbery-at-restaurant\/66643\/\">robbed<\/a> at gunpoint on Sunday. Normally, local crime stories like this wouldn&#8217;t merit a <em>Townhall<\/em> post, but this one is different: The Pit has a &#8220;no weapons&#8221; sign <a href=\"http:\/\/gunsnfreedom.com\/nc-restaurant-posts-no-guns-sign-and-then-gets-robbed-at-gunpoint\/\">displayed prominently<\/a> on its door declaring the restaurant a gun-free zone, and bans patrons from carrying concealed weapons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;Authorities said just before 9 p.m. Sunday, three men wearing hoodies entered the restaurant through the back doors with pistols, and forced several staff members to lie on the floor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The bandits assaulted two employees during the crime, but they were not seriously injured.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Evidently the robbers did not read the sign on the door that said the restaurant was a &#8216;gun-free&#8217; zone. Does anyone actually believe that if we take guns from law-abiding citizens, criminals will give them up and stop using them to commit crimes?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townhall.com posted an article today about a robbery in a North Carolina restaurant. Unfortunately, robberies in restaurants are not unusual and thus do not usually make the news, but this robbery had some special circumstances. The article reports: North Carolina &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22828\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7572,7573],"class_list":["post-22828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gun-free-zones","tag-the-pit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22829,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22828\/revisions\/22829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}