{"id":119563,"date":"2026-11-08T20:32:36","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T02:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=119563"},"modified":"2026-11-08T20:32:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T02:32:44","slug":"119563","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=119563","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GunsofLiberty75\/status\/2119491230107341062\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GunsOfLiberty<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The question in 1788 was not whether Americans needed arms. It was who would hold them.<\/p>\n<p>At Virginia\u2019s ratifying convention, Patrick Henry refused to treat congressional management as the same thing as the people keeping their own arms:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAre we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defence? Where is the difference between having our arms in our possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defence be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Patrick Henry, Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 1788 (3 Elliot\u2019s Debates 386)<\/p>\n<p>If defense is the reason, the people\u2019s own hands are the safest place for those arms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GunsOfLiberty The question in 1788 was not whether Americans needed arms. It was who would hold them. At Virginia\u2019s ratifying convention, Patrick Henry refused to treat congressional management as the same thing as the people keeping their own arms: \u201cAre we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=119563\" 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":[14,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-o-the-day","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119563","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=119563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119564,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119563\/revisions\/119564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}