{"id":55552,"date":"2015-10-08T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T10:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55552"},"modified":"2015-10-07T09:45:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T14:45:04","slug":"a-nation-of-classical-philosophers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55552","title":{"rendered":"A Nation Of Classical Philosophers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>America was founded on the belief that people were endowed by their Creator with certain rights, including the right to life, which carries with it the right to defend one\u2019s life from those who would take it.\u00a0 A gun-free zone denies effective self-defense which jeopardizes the right to life; it is an unjust law.<\/p>\n<p>The classical philosophers from St. Augustine and Abraham Lincoln through Thoreau, Martin Luther King and Gandhi agree we have a moral duty to disobey unjust laws.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, guns are common on that Oregon college campus<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/weapons-common-oregon-college-campus-despite-gun-free-zone-379860\"> despite the gun-free policy. <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Lots of classical philosophers there.\u00a0 Good for them!<\/p>\n<p>Wonder how long before someone complains that students who carry on campus make others feel \u201cunsafe\u201d so the school must expel them?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just you watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: America was founded on the belief that people were endowed by their Creator with certain rights, including the right to life, which carries with it the right to defend one\u2019s life from those who would take it.\u00a0 A gun-free zone denies effective self-defense which jeopardizes the right to life; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-free-zones","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55552","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=55552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55553,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55552\/revisions\/55553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}