{"id":63206,"date":"2020-12-23T08:51:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T14:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=63206"},"modified":"2020-12-23T08:51:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T14:51:24","slug":"63206","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=63206","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2020\/12\/22\/kevin-sorbo-irony-of-men-with-guns-calling-for-gun-bans-proves-the-need-for-the-second-amendment\/\">Kevin Sorbo: Irony of \u2018Men with Guns\u2019 Calling for Gun Bans Proves the Need for the Second Amendment<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Actor Kevin Sorbo is stressing that Americans need to understand that the irony of \u201cmen with guns\u201d taking Americans\u2019 guns justifies the existence of the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t see the irony of a gun ban being enforced by men with guns, then you fail to understand why the 2nd amendment was written in the first place,\u201d Sorbo tweeted<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you don\u2019t see the irony of a gun ban being enforced by men with guns, then you fail to understand why the 2nd amendment was written in the first place<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kevin Sorbo (@ksorbs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ksorbs\/status\/1340781597906382848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Hercules and Andromeda star used an earlier tweet to signal that his \u201cgun ban\u201d observation was a response to President-Elect Joe Biden\u2019s gun control push.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News reported that Biden wants to ban firearms that Democrats categorize as \u201cassault weapons,\u201d and Biden\u2019s policy director pledges \u201cbig, bold changes through executive action\u201d on guns.<\/p>\n<p>When Sorbo suggests that \u201ca gun ban being enforced by men with guns\u201d justifies the Second Amendment, he brings to mind Founding Father James Madison\u2019s emphasis on how an armed populace provides a check against federal overreach.<\/p>\n<p>Madison, the author of the Second Amendment, used Federalist 46 to contend hat one of the strongest checks on federal tyranny\u2013if not the single strongest check\u2013was an armed citizenry. He boiled down differences between Americans and their European counterparts by explaining that Americans could unite to stop a federal government intent on using military force to topple State power: disarmed Europeans had no such option.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote, \u201cThe advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He explained that \u201cultimate authority\u2026resides in the people alone and that all authority held by government is derivative power that flows from the people and rests in the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To Sorbo\u2019s point, it would highly ironic to have a scenario where a government that gets it power from the people, then used that power to send armed men to enforce gun bans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Sorbo: Irony of \u2018Men with Guns\u2019 Calling for Gun Bans Proves the Need for the Second Amendment Actor Kevin Sorbo is stressing that Americans need to understand that the irony of \u201cmen with guns\u201d taking Americans\u2019 guns justifies the existence of the Second Amendment. \u201cIf you don\u2019t see the irony of a gun ban &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=63206\" 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":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63206","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=63206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63207,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63206\/revisions\/63207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}