{"id":26668,"date":"2017-04-08T07:36:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T12:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26668"},"modified":"2017-04-08T07:36:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T12:36:36","slug":"slate-the-second-amendment-vs-the-fourth-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26668","title":{"rendered":"Slate: The Second Amendment vs. the Fourth Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slate: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/politics\/2017\/04\/why_liberals_should_be_alarmed_that_courts_are_eroding_the_second_amendment.html\">The Second Amendment vs. the Fourth Amendment<\/a> by Mark Joseph Stern:<br \/>\nDoes exercising your right to carry a gun diminish your other constitutional protections?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The American judiciary is currently engaged in a vigorous debate that can be summed up in one question: Can you diminish your Fourth Amendment rights by exercising your Second Amendment rights? The Fourth Amendment protects individuals against \u201cunreasonable searches and seizures\u201d; the Second Amendment safeguards the right \u201cto keep and bear arms.\u201d What happens, then, if police officers search or seize a person solely because he is carrying a firearm? Is that \u201cunreasonable\u201d under the Fourth Amendment and therefore illegal?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate: The Second Amendment vs. the Fourth Amendment by Mark Joseph Stern: Does exercising your right to carry a gun diminish your other constitutional protections? The American judiciary is currently engaged in a vigorous debate that can be summed up &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26668\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26669,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26668\/revisions\/26669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}