{"id":299123,"date":"2010-02-09T16:56:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T21:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f81\/kopel-how-right-arms-saved-non-violent-civil-rights-protesters-39232\/"},"modified":"2010-02-09T16:56:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T21:56:12","slug":"kopel-how-the-right-to-arms-saved-the-non-violent-civil-rights-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/299123","title":{"rendered":"Kopel: How the right to arms saved the non-violent civil rights protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Posted: 02.09.10 01:21 AM<\/p>\n<p>In modern Chicago, decent law-abiding citizens are forbidden to own handguns. As I detailed in my amicus brief  in McDonald v. Chicago (pages 39\u00e2??45), many people find that a handgun is best choice for family defense, especially in urban areas such as Chicago. As the history of the Civil Rights Movement demonstrates, the denial of the constitutional right to own a handgun could endanger other constitutional rights, particularly the rights of community organizers.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nraila.org\/News\/Read\/InTheNews.aspx?ID=13382\" >http:\/\/www.nraila.org\/News\/Read\/InTheNews.aspx?ID=13382<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted: 02.09.10 01:21 AM In modern Chicago, decent law-abiding citizens are forbidden to own handguns. As I detailed in my amicus brief in McDonald v. Chicago (pages 39\u00e2??45), many people find that a handgun is best choice for family defense, especially in urban areas such as Chicago. As the history of the Civil Rights Movement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4298,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4298"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}