{"id":2859,"date":"2010-01-29T15:29:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T22:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/?p=2859"},"modified":"2010-01-13T15:30:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T22:30:39","slug":"front-sight-mail-bag-liberal-reader-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2010\/01\/29\/front-sight-mail-bag-liberal-reader-responds\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Sight Mail Bag: Liberal Reader Responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Piazza,<\/p>\n<p>I have NOTHING BUT RESPECT FOR YOU.\u00a0 It\u2019s funny.\u00a0 I am very socially liberal,\u00a0 but I believe strongly in the ability to defend yourself.\u00a0 History has proven time and time again that disarming good people only results in tyranny.\u00a0 Here in Canada handguns are SEVERELY controlled.\u00a0 I have a few and also have my appropriate licences.\u00a0 What\u2019s next?\u00a0 In Australia they have already banned semi-automatic rifles, including .22 rimfire.\u00a0 I had a self-loading .22 rifle to hunt Snowshoe Hare with here in Canada when I was 15 years young.\u00a0 It brought larder to the table.\u00a0 No government is going to take that away from me!\u00a0 It\u2019s time good citizens stood up for freedom.\u00a0 Instead of allowing ourselves to be brainwashed in to allowing these freedoms to be eroded.\u00a0 As in the &#8220;war on terror&#8221;,\u00a0 It&#8217;s more like an excuse to violate our constitutional rights.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers and Happy New Year.<\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Piazza, I have NOTHING BUT RESPECT FOR YOU.\u00a0 It\u2019s funny.\u00a0 I am very socially liberal,\u00a0 but I believe strongly in the ability to defend yourself.\u00a0 History has proven time and time again that disarming good people only results in tyranny.\u00a0 Here in Canada handguns are SEVERELY controlled.\u00a0 I have a few and also have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3,1],"tags":[1693,1691,563,1692,549,1650,1685,308,1601,1688,260,1690,1610,232,945,1687,1684,1686,809,1689],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2860,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions\/2860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}