{"id":8909,"date":"2025-02-10T11:11:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T18:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=8909"},"modified":"2025-02-10T11:11:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T18:11:40","slug":"gun-owners-have-more-rights-than-the-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/gun-owners-have-more-rights-than-the-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun owners have more rights than the majority"},"content":{"rendered":"

February 9, 2025 – by Heather Cox Richardson<\/a><\/p>\n

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The executive order says that the Second Amendment \u201cis foundational to maintaining all other rights held by Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, it is the right to vote for the lawmakers who make up our government that is foundational to maintaining all other rights held by Americans. …\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The people who think that bearing arms is central to maintaining American rights are the same people who tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election by storming the United States Capitol because they do not command the votes to put their policies in place through the exercise of law outlined in the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

February 9, 2025 – by Heather Cox Richardson The executive order says that the Second Amendment \u201cis foundational to maintaining all other rights held by Americans.\u201d In fact, it is the right to vote for the lawmakers who make up our government that is foundational to maintaining all other rights held by Americans. …\u00a0 \u00a0 … Continue reading Gun owners have more rights than the majority<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[225],"class_list":["post-8909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada","tag-resist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8909","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=8909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8910,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8909\/revisions\/8910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}