{"id":24,"date":"2008-06-27T14:55:10","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T12:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2008-07-04T20:06:54","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T18:06:54","slug":"courting-disaster-supreme-court-lets-guns-into-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Courting Disaster: Supreme Court lets guns into DC"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I have yet to read the opinion of the Court as to the reasoning of this week’s 2nd amendment ruling, but let’s discuss just one point.\u00a0 Four justices earlier were upset that the court upheld Habeus Corpus, and the clear basis of their argument was not strict construction, but rather fear of attack.\u00a0 Those same four justices plus Justice Kennedy made use of strict construction in the DC opinion.\u00a0 That to me says that at least those four justices are perfectly comfortable with our government \u201cdefending\u201d us against others, but they’re not comfortable with the government defending us against each other.\u00a0 Put another way, we can abuse others as much as we want, but heaven forbid we wish to assert government authority against our own citizenry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have yet to read the opinion of the Court as to the reasoning of this week’s 2nd amendment ruling, but let’s discuss just one point.\u00a0 Four justices earlier were upset that the court upheld Habeus Corpus, and the clear basis of their argument was not strict construction, but rather fear of attack.\u00a0 Those same … Continue reading “Courting Disaster: Supreme Court lets guns into DC”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[31,22],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-guns","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}