{"id":56586,"date":"2015-12-10T05:35:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T11:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56586"},"modified":"2015-12-09T07:38:19","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T13:38:19","slug":"they-wanted-a-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56586","title":{"rendered":"They Wanted A Fight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Williamson on the Democrats&#8217; contempt for the rule of law, to say nothing of the First and Second Amendment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If the Democrats want to do away with the Second Amendment, let them begin the amendment process and see how far they get. We should challenge them to do so at every opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, the Democrats have declared war on the First Amendment, voting in the Senate to repeal it; they have declared war on the Second Amendment at every turn; they also have declared war on due process and, in doing so, on the idea of the rule of law itself, beginning with the notion of \u201cinnocent until proven guilty.\u201d That isn\u2019t liberalism \u2014 it\u2019s totalitarianism.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a winnable fight, and we should welcome it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m just going to shut up and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/428218\/gun-control-laws-connecticut-california-new-prohibition-same-totalitarianism\">urge you to read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Williamson on the Democrats&#8217; contempt for the rule of law, to say nothing of the First and Second Amendment: If the Democrats want to do away with the Second Amendment, let them begin the amendment process and see how far they get. We should challenge them to do so at every opportunity. In reality, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,22],"tags":[289],"class_list":["post-56586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grass-roots","category-victim-disarmament","tag-kevin-williamson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56586","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=56586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56587,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56586\/revisions\/56587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}