{"id":6997,"date":"2015-09-11T05:14:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T05:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/09\/11\/on-keeping-folks-in-check\/"},"modified":"2015-09-11T05:14:51","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T05:14:51","slug":"on-keeping-folks-in-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/09\/11\/on-keeping-folks-in-check\/","title":{"rendered":"On Keeping Folks in Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">An appeal to reason works with a few, and an appeal to self-interest with most.&#0160; But then there are the hopelessly recalcitrant for whom only the appeal to force is effective.&#0160; The only argument that reaches them is the <em>argumentum ad baculum<\/em>.&#0160; Herein yet another reason to uphold Second Amendment rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Those who call for the repeal of the Second Amendment not only fail to appreciate its importance but also vastly underestimate the difficulty of actually repealing it.&#0160; On the latter point, see <a href=\"http:\/\/c5.nrostatic.com\/node\/423183\/print\" target=\"_self\">Charles C. W. Cooke<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An appeal to reason works with a few, and an appeal to self-interest with most.&#0160; But then there are the hopelessly recalcitrant for whom only the appeal to force is effective.&#0160; The only argument that reaches them is the argumentum ad baculum.&#0160; Herein yet another reason to uphold Second Amendment rights. Those who call for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/09\/11\/on-keeping-folks-in-check\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Keeping Folks in Check&#8221;<\/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":[112,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6997","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=6997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}