{"id":64890,"date":"2017-10-25T05:01:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T10:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64890"},"modified":"2017-10-25T02:02:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T07:02:47","slug":"well-regulated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64890","title":{"rendered":"Well-Regulated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The case for <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2016\/03\/must-pack-heat-the-case-for-mandating-gun-ownership\/\">mandating gun ownership<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0Why <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=959417\">serving in the militia should be compulsory<\/a>.<br \/>\nAs a general rule, I react negatively to the suggestion that I should be required to do anything for the federal government.\u00a0 But the point about civic virtue is important.\u00a0 In a world where people think bacon comes from a store and cops shouldn\u2019t be so mean when they arrest murderers, a little time spent patrolling the streets of your own town might open some eyes.<br \/>\nJoe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Until 1972, the Swiss directly tied serving in the militia to the right to vote.\u00a0 There are times the idea resonates&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The case for mandating gun ownership.\u00a0 \u00a0Why serving in the militia should be compulsory. As a general rule, I react negatively to the suggestion that I should be required to do anything for the federal government.\u00a0 But the point about civic virtue is important.\u00a0 In a world where people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64890","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=64890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64891,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64890\/revisions\/64891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}