{"id":14309,"date":"2016-01-06T07:59:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T12:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=14309"},"modified":"2016-01-06T07:59:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T12:59:43","slug":"gun-control-from-the-trenches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=14309","title":{"rendered":"Gun Control from the trenches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/image11.jpeg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13926\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/image11-600x356.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"600\" height=\"356\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-13926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/image11-600x356.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/image11-150x89.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/image11-300x178.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/image11.jpeg 1416w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Rowan County NC is a largely rural county on I-85 between Charlotte and Greensboro.  It has a population of around 140,000<\/p>\n<p>In NC, the County Sheriff is an elected position.  Kevin Auten won reelected in 2014 with over 70% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff Auten reports a very large upswing in requests for gun permits.  Here is what he thinks is going on:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think people feel the need to protect themselves. I think people aren\u2019t comfortable with the job law enforcement can do or the military or anybody. Any attack on a person at their home, I think people are more willing to step up and say, \u2018Hey, I gotta do this for myself. I can\u2019t rely on anybody else to do it as well as I\u2019m going to do it for myself or my family,&#8217;\u201d Auten said. <\/p>\n<p>In 2015, 4,812 new gun permits were requested.  That&#8217;s about 20 per business day.<\/p>\n<p>By focusing gun purchases through &#8220;establishment&#8221; licensed gun dealers, the President just made gun retailing much more profitable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rowan County NC is a largely rural county on I-85 between Charlotte and Greensboro. It has a population of around 140,000 In NC, the County Sheriff is an elected position. Kevin Auten won reelected in 2014 with over 70% of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=14309\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,156,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-politics","category-barack-obama","category-gun-ownership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14309"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14313,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14309\/revisions\/14313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}