{"id":299,"date":"2025-02-09T10:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T10:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/trumps-executive-order-re-2a\/"},"modified":"2025-02-09T10:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T10:17:07","slug":"trumps-executive-order-re-2a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/trumps-executive-order-re-2a\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Executive Order re: 2A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">I had been toying with the idea of heading to the range tomorrow morning; this 2A news just in, I am now going for sure to celebrate the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/02\/protecting-second-amendment-rights-7b90\/\">Executive Order<\/a> with a bang.&#0160; One hundred rounds worth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The Bill of Rights is just so much 18th century parchment unless and until backed up with Pb. 2A codifies the Pb. 2A does not grant a right to self-defense; it protects a right logically antecedent to governments, a right to defend not only your life and liberty, but also your property, including the property instrumental to the defense of the first two items of the Lockean triad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Read the EO carefully. Do see where &#39;impinge&#39; ought to have been &#39;infringe&#39;?&#0160; Call me a pedant if you like, but you young people will never fathom the beauty, richness, and versatility of the English language if you don&#39;t read good <em>old<\/em> books, but restrict yourself to social media dreck&#0160; and the latest printed offerings.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had been toying with the idea of heading to the range tomorrow morning; this 2A news just in, I am now going for sure to celebrate the Executive Order with a bang.&#0160; One hundred rounds worth. The Bill of Rights is just so much 18th century parchment unless and until backed up with Pb. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/trumps-executive-order-re-2a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trump&#8217;s Executive Order re: 2A&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-u-s-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","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=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}