{"id":109952,"date":"2025-05-12T15:44:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T20:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=109952"},"modified":"2025-05-12T15:44:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T20:44:33","slug":"109952","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=109952","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Ur_a_Smartass_C\/status\/1921549798139707718\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The argument that we must dismantle the Second Amendment in order to \u201csave lives\u201d is not only historically shallow, it is philosophically incoherent and legally reckless.<\/p>\n<p>The right to bear arms was not written into our Constitution as a hobbyist clause. It was forged out of centuries of tyranny, colonial subjugation, and the painful lessons of disarmed populations across history. It exists not to promote violence, but to prevent the monopolization of it.<\/p>\n<p>To suggest abolishing this right in the name of public safety is akin to drowning a person in hopes of sparing them from the threat of future harm. It sounds noble, until you realize it\u2019s fatal.<\/p>\n<p>True safety is not born from submission. It is born from the freedom to defend oneself, one\u2019s family, and one\u2019s community, especially when institutions fail, as history reminds us they often do. If we abandon that principle, we don\u2019t move forward; we regress into the very dangers the Second Amendment was designed to guard against.<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t save lives by stripping away the tools that protect them. You don\u2019t secure liberty by eroding the rights that uphold it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl The argument that we must dismantle the Second Amendment in order to \u201csave lives\u201d is not only historically shallow, it is philosophically incoherent and legally reckless. The right to bear arms was not written into our Constitution as a hobbyist clause. It was forged out of centuries of tyranny, colonial subjugation, and the painful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=109952\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observation-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=109952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109953,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109952\/revisions\/109953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}