I don’t know if this is a response to the previous sophistry, or just an opposite viewpoint, but I like it.<\/p>\n
To the editor:<\/b>\u00a0<\/a>As a proud Asian American veteran, I know that evil comes in many forms and in many languages. Evil does not understand reason, only violence.<\/p>\n California has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation. Maybe it’s time to empower the people to defend themselves against evil.<\/p>\n California already requires background checks, waiting periods, testing requirements and more. Repeating the same steps expecting a different outcome is the definition of insanity.<\/p>\n John Tor, Los Angeles<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don’t know if this is a response to the previous sophistry, or just an opposite viewpoint, but I like it. To the editor:\u00a0As a proud Asian American veteran, I know that evil comes in many forms and in many languages. Evil does not understand reason, only violence. California has some of the most restrictive … 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":[30,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","category-rkba","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89725","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=89725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89726,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89725\/revisions\/89726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}