{"id":574,"date":"2017-11-12T00:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2017\/11\/12\/a-great-letter-to-editor\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:28:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:28:18","slug":"a-great-letter-to-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"A Great Letter To The Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8045,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.wsj.com\\\/articles\\\/100-years-of-communismand-100-million-dead-1510011810&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260109230744\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.wsj.com\\\/articles\\\/100-years-of-communismand-100-million-dead-1510011810&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 02:57:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-24 13:29:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-28 05:10:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-28 05:10:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8046,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.wsj.com\\\/articles\\\/century-of-red-has-left-many-millions-dead-1510357598?tesla=y&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nThe Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed commentary on the 100th anniversary of Communism this past Tuesday. It was entitled, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/100-years-of-communismand-100-million-dead-1510011810\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">100 Years of Communism &#8211; 100 Million Dead.<\/a>&#8221; The article discussed the consequences of the Bolsheviks&#8217; turning Marxist-Leninist ideology into reality.<\/p>\n<p>In response to this article, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/century-of-red-has-left-many-millions-dead-1510357598?tesla=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jack Wissner of Atlanta had this to say<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>Wanton killing of millions in the name of some bankrupt ideology is a bit more difficult when everybody, not just the elite, are armed.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Wissner shows an astute understanding of why our Founding Fathers made the right to keep and bear arms part of the Bill of Rights.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed commentary on the 100th anniversary of Communism this past Tuesday. It was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1346,1347,19,576],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-communism","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-second-amendment","tag-wall-street-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11233,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/11233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}