{"id":66541,"date":"2018-04-11T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66541"},"modified":"2018-04-10T22:20:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T03:20:42","slug":"vigiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66541","title":{"rendered":"<i>Vigiles<\/i>"},"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\u00a0 And why <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 \/>\nWho knows, maybe we could form a committee of citizens to maintain vigilance in the neighborhood.\u00a0 Might be a good deterrent to crime.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think public safety is like tax withholding; if you had to do it yourself, your point of view would be very different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The case for mandating gun ownership.\u00a0\u00a0 And why 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66541","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=66541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66542,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66541\/revisions\/66542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}