{"id":78475,"date":"2026-01-04T00:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T06:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=78475"},"modified":"2026-01-03T22:01:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T04:01:55","slug":"78475","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=78475","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

“People who object to weapons aren’t abolishing violence, they’re begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically ‘right.’ <\/em>
\nGuns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.<\/em>
\nWear a gun to someone else’s house, you’re saying,
\n‘I’ll defend this home as if it were my own.’<\/strong>
\nWhen your guests see you carry a weapon, you’re telling them,
\n‘I’ll defend you as if you were my own family.’<\/strong>
\nAnd anyone who objects levels the deadliest insult possible:
\n‘I don’t trust you unless you’re rendered harmless’!”<\/strong><\/em>
\n–L. Neil Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“People who object to weapons aren’t abolishing violence, they’re begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically ‘right.’ Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work. Wear a gun to someone else’s house, you’re saying, ‘I’ll defend … Continue reading “”<\/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":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78475","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=78475"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102264,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78475\/revisions\/102264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}