{"id":533,"date":"2021-06-21T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T08:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.safecitizen.co.za\/?p=533"},"modified":"2026-06-03T13:20:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:20:01","slug":"carrying-a-gun-is-a-civilised-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.safecitizen.co.za\/index.php\/2021\/06\/21\/carrying-a-gun-is-a-civilised-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrying a gun is a civilised act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All human interactions can be reduced to either reason or force; carrying a gun protects you from those who would resort to force instead of reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/opinionista\/2021-06-21-carrying-a-gun-is-a-civilised-act-disarming-civilians-will-give-criminals-a-monopoly-on-force\/?tl_inbound=1&amp;tl_groups[0]=80895&amp;tl_period_type=3&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=First%20Thing%20Tuesday%2022%20June%202021&amp;utm_content=First%20Thing%20Tuesday%2022%20June%202021+CID_65cdfdc0b16cd640edd94dbd5014b0f7&amp;utm_source=TouchBasePro&amp;utm_term=Carrying%20a%20gun%20is%20a%20civilised%20act%20disarming%20civilians%20will%20give%20criminals%20a%20monopoly%20on%20force\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All human interactions can be reduced to either reason or force; carrying a gun protects you from those who would resort to force instead of reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-statements","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safecitizen.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safecitizen.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safecitizen.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safecitizen.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safecitizen.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.safecitizen.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"https:\/\/www.safecitizen.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safecitizen.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safecitizen.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safecitizen.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safecitizen.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}