{"id":4643,"date":"2009-04-27T07:07:06","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T12:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4643"},"modified":"2009-04-27T07:07:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T12:07:06","slug":"those-bitter-gun-clinging-jesus-freaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4643","title":{"rendered":"Those Bitter Gun-Clinging Jesus Freaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As every good liberal knows, behind every Second Amendment activist lies someone who&#8217;s just dying to shoot a jack-booted federal agent.<\/p>\n<p>And so &#8211; as Meredith Turney at Townhall notes &#8211; a recent ruling by the Mississippi Circuit Court of Appeals, run by a bunch of paranoid redneck hillbillies, should <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/MeredithTurney\/2009\/04\/24\/second_amendment_rights_in_the_wild_west\">come as no surprise:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a state where the judiciary regularly oversteps its constitutional boundaries to advance \u201cprogressive\u201d political agendas, it\u2019s remarkable the judiciary acknowledges the necessity of firearms to protect the populace not just from outside threats, but from a tyrannical government:\u201c<em>While the generation of 1789 envisioned the right [to keep and bear arms] as a component of local resistance to centralized tyranny, whether British or federal, the generation of 1868 envisioned the right as safeguard to protect individuals from oppressive or indifferent local governments. But though the source of the threat may have migrated, the antidote remained the same: the individual right to keep and bear arms, a recourse for \u2018when the sanctions of society and laws are found insufficient to restrain the violence of oppression.\u2019\u201d <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Silly rednecks.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:\u00a0 Oops.\u00a0 It was the Ninth Circuit &#8211; the most out-of-control lefty court in the country.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if they&#8217;ll end up on Janet Napolitano&#8217;s watch list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As every good liberal knows, behind every Second Amendment activist lies someone who&#8217;s just dying to shoot a jack-booted federal agent. And so &#8211; as Meredith Turney at Townhall notes &#8211; a recent ruling by the Mississippi Circuit Court of Appeals, run by a bunch of paranoid redneck hillbillies, should come as no surprise: In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}