{"id":8313,"date":"2020-06-16T06:56:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T12:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=8313"},"modified":"2020-06-16T06:56:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T12:56:14","slug":"your-guns-dont-keep-you-free-the-rule-of-law-keeps-us-all-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wtf\/your-guns-dont-keep-you-free-the-rule-of-law-keeps-us-all-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Your guns don&#8217;t keep you free, the Rule of Law keeps us all free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2020\/06\/16\/albuquerque-militia-shooting-protest\/\">Police detained armed militia members after a man was shot at a protest in Albuquerque &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe heavily armed individuals who flaunted themselves at the protest, calling themselves a \u2018civil guard,\u2019 were there for one reason: To menace protesters, to present an unsanctioned show of unregulated force,\u201d New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) said in a statement. \u201cTo menace the people of New Mexico with weaponry \u2014 with an implicit threat of violence \u2014 is on its face unacceptable; that violence did indeed occur is unspeakable.\u201d Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller (D) said the statue would now be speedily removed as an \u201curgent matter of public safety\u201d until authorities determine a next step.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note: the &#8220;militia&#8217;s&#8221; actions brought the opposite of what they intended: shame and arrest. You shot yourselves in the foot again.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police detained armed militia members after a man was shot at a protest in Albuquerque &#8211; The Washington Post \u201cThe heavily armed individuals who flaunted themselves at the protest, calling themselves a \u2018civil guard,\u2019 were there for one reason: To menace protesters, to present an unsanctioned show of unregulated force,\u201d New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wtf\/your-guns-dont-keep-you-free-the-rule-of-law-keeps-us-all-free\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Your guns don&#8217;t keep you free, the Rule of Law keeps us all free<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furg","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8314,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8313\/revisions\/8314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}