{"id":65544,"date":"2016-04-30T12:49:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T16:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65544"},"modified":"2016-04-30T12:49:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T16:49:48","slug":"liberal-logic-self-defense-contradicts-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65544","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Logic: Self-Defense Contradicts Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me preface this with an apology for perusing on a liberal trash heap blog (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/\">Huffington Post<\/a>).\u00a0 But every once and a while you need a brief glimpse into the dysfunctional minds of the people who are behind Obama\u2019s fundamental transformation of America.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I stumbled upon an \u201carticle\u201d that attempted to argue that defending oneself (with a gun) contradicts justice.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/justin-curmi-\/a-revision-on-the-bill-of_3_b_9772428.html\">entire article<\/a>\u2014it\u2019s quite short.\u00a0 But here are a few of the author\u2019s pseudo-intellectual gems:<\/p>\n<p>(TRIGGER WARNING!!)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cusing a firearm to defend oneself is not legal because if the attacker is killed, he or she is devoid of his or her rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA gun for civilians is a weapon for a revolution and not for ordinary use. The belief that a gun is a useful tool to protect one is counterintuitive because guns get into the hands of people who use them for horrible reasons.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you take some of the article\u2019s arguments to their logical conclusions, you are left with a society of helpless victims.<\/p>\n<p>Consider the statement,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe main problem with the notion of self-defense is it imposes on justice, for everyone has the right for a fair trial.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Evidently, the author does not concern himself with the reality that \u201cself-defense\u201d implies an attack, and criminals don\u2019t regard \u201cjustice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Only a liberal could ignore the fact that a \u201ccriminal\u201d has abandoned his right to due process when he chooses to attack a fellow citizen, and that law-abiding citizens would be the only victims of his imagined utopia.<\/p>\n<p>The scariest part of this article is the title, \u201cA Revision on the Bill of Rights, Part III\u201d\u2014I wonder what other liberal tweaks he has in mind?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me preface this with an apology for perusing on a liberal trash heap blog (Huffington &hellip; <a title=\"Liberal Logic: Self-Defense Contradicts Justice\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65544\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberal Logic: Self-Defense Contradicts Justice<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":652,"featured_media":65545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,47],"tags":[80,260],"class_list":["post-65544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guns","category-liberals-suck","tag-dumbass-liberals","tag-gun-control"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}