{"id":6951,"date":"2006-03-25T09:15:37","date_gmt":"2006-03-25T14:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6951"},"modified":"2006-03-25T09:15:37","modified_gmt":"2006-03-25T14:15:37","slug":"tom-delay-disarmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/tom-delay-disarmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom DeLay, disarmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all heard the firearm-enthusiast saying about gun control: &#8220;You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hand.&#8221; In Tom DeLay&#8217;s case, it may have to be modified to: &#8220;You can have my gun now since I&#8217;ve been indicted for a felony.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, under Texas law, those Texans who&#8217;ve been indicted on felony charges are ineligible for a handgun license. The former House Majority Leader, of course, has been charges with several felonies, including money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>The result, in addition to the humiliation, loss of power, and possible jail time, is that DeLay has reportedly lost his gun license in his home state. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/news\/2006\/DeLay_license_to_carry_concealed_handgun_0324.html\">Raw Story has a copy<\/a> of the court order affirming the suspension of DeLay&#8217;s license.<\/p>\n<p>Raw Story added that DeLay&#8217;s attorneys have appealed the order, which will go to a local GOP judge.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been that kind of year for DeLay&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all heard the firearm-enthusiast saying about gun control: &#8220;You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hand.&#8221; In Tom DeLay&#8217;s case, it may have to be modified to: &#8220;You can have my gun now since I&#8217;ve been indicted for a felony.&#8221; Apparently, under Texas law, those Texans who&#8217;ve been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}