{"id":4386,"date":"2020-09-23T12:19:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T17:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=4386"},"modified":"2020-09-23T12:20:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T17:20:47","slug":"when-voting-is-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=4386","title":{"rendered":"WHEN VOTING IS NOT ENOUGH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When is voting not enough?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When voting fails to stop violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have been so accustomed to depending on voting, that we forget the practical provision of the second amendment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most Americans now are not comfortable to think of citizens using guns to stop the current violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is not an easy thing to think about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was not an easy thing for the American patriots 244 years ago to use their guns to kill British soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do we appreciate their commitment and sacrifice, so we can live free in the very best country ever in the history of the world?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will we make the same commitment and sacrifice now, so our families and their families still have the opportunity to live free in the very best country ever in the history of the world? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When is voting not enough? When voting fails to stop violence. We have been so accustomed to depending on voting, that we forget the practical provision of the second amendment. Most Americans now are not comfortable to think of citizens using guns to stop the current violence. That is not an easy thing to think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-family","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4388,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions\/4388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}