{"id":110864,"date":"2025-06-22T08:34:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T13:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?page_id=110864"},"modified":"2025-06-22T08:35:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T13:35:51","slug":"the-individual-right-to-bear-arms-for-common-defense","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?page_id=110864","title":{"rendered":"The Individual Right To Bear Arms For Common Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fundamental Second Amendment debate has reached a stalemate.\u00a0\u00a0On the one side are those who believe that the Second Amendment secures an individual right to keep and bear arms for self-defense against crime.\u00a0\u00a0On the other are those who consider the right to bear arms to be a collective right to maintain a militia.\u00a0\u00a0But there is a third theory of the right to bear arms\u2014a theory that was once generally agreed upon but has largely been forgotten:\u00a0\u00a0the right to bear arms is an individual right for common defense.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ssrn-4918009.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"both\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"on\">ssrn-4918009<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fundamental Second Amendment debate has reached a stalemate.\u00a0\u00a0On the one side are those who believe that the Second Amendment secures an individual right to keep and bear arms for self-defense against crime.\u00a0\u00a0On the other are those who consider the right to bear arms to be a collective right to maintain a militia.\u00a0\u00a0But there is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?page_id=110864\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Individual Right To Bear Arms For Common Defense&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-110864","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110864"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110868,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110864\/revisions\/110868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}