{"id":5122,"date":"2012-03-01T06:24:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T12:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=2548"},"modified":"2012-03-01T06:24:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T12:24:49","slug":"armed-prosecutors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/01\/armed-prosecutors\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed Prosecutors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/2012\/02\/23\/house-vs-senate-where-to-find-the-tea\/\">We&#8217;ve talked before<\/a> about how what the word &#8220;lower&#8221; in &#8220;lower house&#8221; if a bicameral system might mean.  Here we have another example.  The Minnesota House has passed a bill, almost unanimously, that would allow County Attorneys &#8230; that&#8217;s our phrase for prosecutors &#8230; to carry guns.  <\/p>\n<p>Not in the courtroom, though.<\/p>\n<p>There was a recent event in which a County Attorney was shot by a pissed off guy who had just been convicted of some nasty crime. Yesterday or thereabouts, the horrid 911 call of that incident, which recorded much agony and fear and such on tape, was released. Everybody is upset about it again.  <\/p>\n<p>That incident happened in a courtroom where the CA would not have been carrying a gun, according to this potential new law. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2012\/02\/29\/house-passes-bill-to-let-attorneys-carry-guns\/\">Details<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve talked before about how what the word &#8220;lower&#8221; in &#8220;lower house&#8221; if a bicameral system might mean. Here we have another example. The Minnesota House has passed a bill, almost unanimously, that would allow County Attorneys &#8230; that&#8217;s our phrase for prosecutors &#8230; to carry guns. Not in the courtroom, though. There was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/01\/armed-prosecutors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Armed Prosecutors<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[449,290],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1kC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}