{"id":452,"date":"2014-12-19T14:45:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T20:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conservativelefty.wordpress.com\/?p=452"},"modified":"2014-12-19T14:45:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T20:45:09","slug":"u-s-appeals-court-expands-gun-rights-tcot-2a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Appeals Court Expands Gun Rights #tcot #2a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, I do want to remind folks that The Conservative Lefty is not really a gun blog. \u00a0However, it does seem there has been\u00a0a lot of Second Amendment news and action of late that has an impact on conservative causes.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-88 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/jefferson-on-guns1.jpg\" alt=\"Jefferson on guns\" width=\"490\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/jefferson-on-guns1.jpg 490w, http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/jefferson-on-guns1-300x83.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Take this one, for example:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/u-s-appeals-court-expands-gun-rights-1418939537?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsThird\">U.S. Appeals Court Expands Gun Rights &#8211; WSJ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is really, really big. \u00a0On a national level<!--more--> the gun rights advocates are clearly winning. \u00a0We are not only winning in the legal front but also in the hearts and minds of the people as that <a title=\"Growing Public Support for Gun Rights\" href=\"http:\/\/www.people-press.org\/2014\/12\/10\/growing-public-support-for-gun-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pew gun rights poll<\/a> has shown.<\/p>\n<p>Be warned, though! \u00a0The gun control lobby is already shifting gears. \u00a0Know that they are losing\u00a0<em>badly<\/em> on the national front, they have shifted to a state-by-state attack. \u00a0This kind of approach allows them to take advantage of their billionaire lined coffers. \u00a0Where we may be able to meet them head on nationally, we are at a real disadvantage engaging in expensive state battles on multiple fronts. \u00a0The Washington I-594 law was their test case for this.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you value your Second Amendment rights, you need to keep vigilant. \u00a0We don&#8217;t want to win the national argument only to lose state-by-state. \u00a0Remember, too, that they fight in Washington state or Colorado or New Jersey is your fight as well even if your in Missouri or Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, I do want to remind folks that The Conservative Lefty is not really a gun blog. \u00a0However, it does seem there has been\u00a0a lot of Second Amendment news and action of late that has an impact on conservative causes. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=452\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3,10],"tags":[45,50,51,70,71,72,111,112,115],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-current-news","category-second-amendment","tag-conservative-causes","tag-culture-war","tag-current-events","tag-gun-violence","tag-guns","tag-healthcare","tag-second-amendment","tag-shooting","tag-tea-party"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yCHs-7i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}