{"id":3048,"date":"2020-07-05T12:44:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T12:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/05\/the-right-to-a-high-capacity-magazine\/"},"modified":"2020-07-05T12:44:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T12:44:12","slug":"the-right-to-a-high-capacity-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/05\/the-right-to-a-high-capacity-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Right to a High-Capacity Magazine in a Time of Civil Breakdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With no police or security within sight, Mark and Patricia McCloskey stood with their backs to their house wielding a small pistol and an AR-15. The \u201cpeaceful protest<\/span>\u201d featured a screaming scrum of hundreds smashing<\/span> down the gate to a privately-owned neighborhood as they poured onto the privately-owned street just a few feet from the McCloskey residence. Considering the many buildings the mobs in recent weeks have burned, the victims they have assaulted, and the neighborhoods they have destroyed, the McCloskeys determined to remain physically safe, if terrorized. The mob screamed at and taunted the McCloskeys. But it dared not assault the armed homeowners.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve been told we don\u2019t need "weapons of war"<\/span> to protect ourselves because the police will do that job. Let\u2019s be honest: against such forces the police can\u2019t even protect themselves. Not since the post-Civil War reconstruction era have mobs conquered not one, but two police installations in major metropolitan areas. We don\u2019t have to hypothesize about a potential breakdown in civil order. We have one. When the mobs have the political winds at their backs, the police are easily overwhelmed. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What might the mob have done to the McCloskeys had they not produced a credible firearm deterrent? The McCloskeys reported seeing at least one handgun in the mob. They recounted how the mob threatened to burn down their house and harm them. This wasn\u2019t an NRA fantasy invented to justify opposition to gun control laws. It happened. From June 29, 2020 onward, all bans on private ownership high-capacity magazines should be deemed unconstitutional.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

NOTA BENE: I had to remove the innocuous internal links in the excerpt quoted above to keep the entire post from being blocked. This is only the second time this has happened in all my years on TypePad.  The first time was yesterday.  A harbinger of things to come!<\/span><\/p>\n

RELATED:  Time to ARM<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here: With no police or security within sight, Mark and Patricia McCloskey stood with their backs to their house wielding a small pistol and an AR-15. The \u201cpeaceful protest\u201d featured a screaming scrum of hundreds smashing down the gate to a privately-owned neighborhood as they poured onto the privately-owned street just a few feet from … Continue reading “The Right to a High-Capacity Magazine in a Time of Civil Breakdown”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048","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=3048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}