{"id":3450,"date":"2016-05-31T19:17:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T19:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/blog\/?p=3450"},"modified":"2016-05-31T19:17:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T19:17:38","slug":"how-much-liberty-do-americans-have-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/tranzitioning\/?p=3450","title":{"rendered":"How Much Liberty Do Americans Have Left?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2016\/05\/much-liberty-americans-left.html','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'&lt;div class=\\&quot;embedly\\&quot; style=\\&quot;\\&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=\\&quot;http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/6186516540_58d2290003_b.jpg\\&quot; class=\\&quot;thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\&quot; \/&gt;&lt;a class=\\'embedly-title\\' target=\\'_blank\\' href=\\'http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2016\/05\/much-liberty-americans-left.html\\'&gt;How Much Liberty Do Americans Have Left?&lt;\/a&gt;It is hard to read the Second Amendment and not honestly conclude that the Framers intended gun ownership to be an individual right. It is true that the amendment begins with a reference to militias: \\&quot;A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.\\&quot;&lt;div class=\\&quot;embedly-clear\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;span class=\\&quot;embedly-powered\\&quot; style=\\&quot;float:right;display:block\\&quot;&gt;&lt;a target=\\&quot;_blank\\&quot; href=\\&quot;http:\/\/embed.ly\/code?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonsblog.com%2F2016%2F05%2Fmuch-liberty-americans-left.html\\&quot; title=\\&quot;Powered by Embedly\\&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=\\&quot;http:\/\/static.embed.ly\/images\/logos\/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\&quot; alt=\\&quot;Embedly Powered\\&quot; \/&gt;&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;div class=\\&quot;media-attribution\\&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;via &lt;\/span&gt;&lt;a href=\\&quot;http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\\&quot; class=\\&quot;media-attribution-link\\&quot; target=\\&quot;_blank\\&quot;&gt;Washingtonsblog&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=\\&quot;embedly-clear\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;'}\">\n<div class=\"embedly\" style=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/6186516540_58d2290003_b.jpg\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\" \/><a class='embedly-title' target='_blank' href='http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2016\/05\/much-liberty-americans-left.html'>How Much Liberty Do Americans Have Left?<\/a>It is hard to read the Second Amendment and not honestly conclude that the Framers intended gun ownership to be an individual right. It is true that the amendment begins with a reference to militias: &#8220;A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"embedly-clear\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/embed.ly\/code?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonsblog.com%2F2016%2F05%2Fmuch-liberty-americans-left.html\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.embed.ly\/images\/logos\/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"media-attribution\"><span>via <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Washingtonsblog<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embedly-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Much Liberty Do Americans Have Left?It is hard to read the Second Amendment and not honestly conclude that the Framers intended gun ownership to be an individual right. It is true that the amendment begins with a reference to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/tranzitioning\/?p=3450\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tranzitioning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3451,"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions\/3451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}