{"id":1001,"date":"2010-05-27T14:44:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T19:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2010-05-27T14:44:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T19:44:22","slug":"why-carrying-a-gun-is-a-civilized-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1001","title":{"rendered":"Why Carrying a Gun is a Civilized Act."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/warriortimes.com\/2010\/05\/27\/why-carrying-a-gun-is-a-civilized-act\/\" target=\"_blank\">Warrior Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have seen this circulate many times and have tried to find the original post. All I can determine is that is appeared around 2007, is attributed to Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret) and a lot of bloggers didn&#8217;t attribute it to anyone. It is such a sweet and cogent piece that it must be brought out and revisited periodically. Thank you Major Caudill, where ever you are.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I carry a gun, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do so  because I am looking for a fight,  but because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m looking to be left  alone. The gun at my side means that  I cannot be forced, only persuaded.  I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t carry it because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m  afraid, but because it enables me to be  unafraid. It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t limit the  actions of those who would interact with  me through reason, only the  actions of those who would do so by force.<\/p>\n<p>It removes force from the equation\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why carrying a gun is a   civilized act.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/warriortimes.com\/2010\/05\/27\/why-carrying-a-gun-is-a-civilized-act\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole thing.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Warrior Times I have seen this circulate many times and have tried to find the original post. All I can determine is that is appeared around 2007, is attributed to Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret) and a lot of bloggers didn&#8217;t attribute it to anyone. It is such a sweet and cogent piece that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}