{"id":1035,"date":"2008-11-09T17:20:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T22:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2008-11-09T23:19:37","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T04:19:37","slug":"trigger-happy-thanksgiving-yall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/09\/trigger-happy-thanksgiving-yall\/","title":{"rendered":"Trigger-Happy Thanksgiving, y&#8217;all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South Carolina legislators who passed the measure call it the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sctax.org\/NR\/rdonlyres\/7157C42B-9C11-4698-A08D-093955585367\/0\/IL0811.pdf\">&#8220;Second Amendment Sales Tax Holiday.&#8221;<\/a> Thinking people would call it pandering of the worst kind. <\/p>\n<p>Just today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/article\/20081109\/NEWS06\/811090315\">The Greenville News<\/a> reported that, according to the FBI, South Carolina is the most violent state in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of a tax break for food, or gas, or products to help protect the environment, we get a tax break on guns. Seriously. Beginning at midnight Nov. 28 and ending at midnight Nov. 30, South Carolinians can save money while they beef up their arsenals.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not like they needed the incentive. There has been a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/local\/story\/582633.html\">run on guns<\/a> since Barack Obama was elected president, amid fears that he and a Democrat-controlled Congress will pass stricter gun laws. <\/p>\n<p>Apparently, you can take the cowboy out of the White House, but not out of the American household.<\/p>\n<p>Becci Robbins<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/gun.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/gun-229x300.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"gun\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1039\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/gun-229x300.gif 229w, https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/gun.gif 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South Carolina legislators who passed the measure call it the &#8220;Second Amendment Sales Tax Holiday.&#8221; Thinking people would call it pandering of the worst kind. Just today The Greenville News reported that, according to the FBI, South Carolina is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/09\/trigger-happy-thanksgiving-yall\/\">Continue reading <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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-network-newsevents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}