{"id":63031,"date":"2015-11-30T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63031"},"modified":"2015-11-30T07:57:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T12:57:47","slug":"detroit-officers-oppose-nfl-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63031","title":{"rendered":"Detroit officers oppose NFL policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Football League enacted a policy in 2013 that forbids off-duty cops from taking their firearms into the NFL stadiums according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/detroit-city\/2015\/11\/27\/detroit-cop-unions-push-nfl-rescind-gun-ban\/76480866\/\">Detroit News<\/a> article. The Detroit police union wrote a letter asking them to reverse that decision;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cLaw enforcement officers often carry a weapon while off duty not only for their own personal protection but to provide a critical response when circumstances call for immediate police action,\u201d said the letter, which had not been sent to the league yet Friday evening as the unions finalize it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrent events, not least the unconscionable acts of terrorism we have recently experienced, only add to the desirability of having readily available armed law enforcement officers even if they are not officially \u2018on duty.\u2019 \u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, James Craig, Detroit&#8217;s tough, pro-Second Amendment police chief who encourages law abiding citizens to arm themselves, opposes the ban, too;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s a bad policy, given what\u2019s going on in the world today,\u201d said Detroit Police Chief James Craig, a gun rights advocate. \u201cThe difference between surviving and not surviving could rest with an off-duty officer who is able to defend against some crazed terrorist who wants to take us out.\u201d Craig did not add his signature to the letter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, it&#8217;s the NFL&#8217;s choice who they allow to be armed on their property, but I don&#8217;t think they thought this one through.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Marine_7002 for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Football League enacted a policy in 2013 that forbids off-duty cops from taking their firearms into the NFL stadiums according to a Detroit News article. The Detroit police union wrote a letter asking them to reverse that decision; \u201cLaw enforcement officers often carry a weapon while off duty not only for their own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-goD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}