{"id":12457,"date":"2009-08-23T13:02:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T13:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/23\/leftists-and-guns\/"},"modified":"2009-08-23T13:02:29","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T13:02:29","slug":"leftists-and-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/23\/leftists-and-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftists and Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Leftists who fear a &#39;fascist theocracy&#39; in the USA ought to consider joining with their conservative brethren in support of Second Amendment rights. That way, when the &#39;fascist theocrats&#39; kick down their doors at 3 AM to haul them off to church services, the leftists will be well equipped to defend their liberty. Was it not their own Chairman Mao who said that &quot;Power comes out of the barrel of a gun&quot;?<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">There is a serious point here. ACLU extremists will torture the First Amendment to mean anything they want it to mean while nary a peep will you hear from them in defense of the Second Amendment &#8212; when it is the Second that backs up the First and all the rest. <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">There is an old saying: &quot;If liberals interpreted the Second Amendment the way they interpret the First, gun ownership would be mandatory.&quot;<\/font> <\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Companion post: <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2009\/08\/the-aclu-on-the-second-amendment.html\">The ACLU on the Second Amendment<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leftists who fear a &#39;fascist theocracy&#39; in the USA ought to consider joining with their conservative brethren in support of Second Amendment rights. That way, when the &#39;fascist theocrats&#39; kick down their doors at 3 AM to haul them off to church services, the leftists will be well equipped to defend their liberty. Was it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/23\/leftists-and-guns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leftists and Guns&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}