{"id":5025,"date":"2011-10-18T08:29:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T13:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=897"},"modified":"2011-10-18T08:29:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T13:29:44","slug":"gun-nuts-and-stoners-unite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/18\/gun-nuts-and-stoners-unite\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun Nuts and Stoners Unite!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Feldman, President of the Independent Firearm Owners Association, Inc. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/richard-feldman\/gun-rights-marijuana-refo_b_1014802.html\">writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gun rights activists are generally perceived as coming from the political right while marijuana reformers are typically thought of as belonging to the political left . Ironically, if they can get past their reflexive distrust of each other, the two groups would discover that their pursuit of civil liberties is quite similar. &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He then supports this argument with some interesting and seeming valid points.  Finally:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I believe the time has come for activists across the political spectrum to join forces with marijuana reform campaigns in order to protect our civil liberties. &#8230; that gun activists [mut] protect our own 2nd Amendment liberties by helping others protect their rights to be treated like adults, thereby decreasing violence in the country and lessening calls for gun control.<\/p>\n<p>By ending drug prohibition we have a merging of the right and left down the pro-freedom, independent center of the road. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Feldman partly ruins his attempt to reach across the political spectrum by blaming it all on Obama, but that is to be expected, I suppose. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Feldman, President of the Independent Firearm Owners Association, Inc. writes:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[449,290],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1j3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}