{"id":6855,"date":"2015-11-13T04:08:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T04:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/11\/13\/the-first-and-second-amendments\/"},"modified":"2015-11-13T04:08:13","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T04:08:13","slug":"the-first-and-second-amendments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/11\/13\/the-first-and-second-amendments\/","title":{"rendered":"The First and Second Amendments"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is an old saying which is perhaps now out-of-date.  If liberals took the Second Amendment as seriously as they take the First, they would demand that gun ownership be mandatory.<\/em>  The point of the jibe was to highlight the absurd extremes to which liberals take the First Amendment.<\/span><\/p>\n

But now the First Amendment is under vicious assault, by contemporary liberals no less, while university administrators and professors, in abdication of authority, stand idly by or allow themselves to be driven out of office.<\/span><\/p>\n

Curiously, this assault on the First is yet another powerful argument for the Second.<\/span><\/p>\n

I now send you to David Harsanyi, The First Amendment is Dying<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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There is an old saying which is perhaps now out-of-date.  If liberals took the Second Amendment as seriously as they take the First, they would demand that gun ownership be mandatory.  The point of the jibe was to highlight the absurd extremes to which liberals take the First Amendment. But now the First Amendment is … Continue reading “The First and Second Amendments”<\/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":[112,231,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-free-speech","category-u-s-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855","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=6855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}