We\u2019ve been discussing the \u201chigh capacity magazine controversy\u201d here of late, and it\u2019s good to see someone getting the message across in mainstream media.\u00a0 Here\u2019s what novelist\/critic Stephen Hunter, one of the best writers of our time in my opinion, had to say on the subject in the Washington Post:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2011\/02\/04\/AR2011020406709.html<\/a><\/p>\n In my last post here, I and several commentators discussed the recent tragedy in rural Alaska, where a good man went to the door unarmed to find himself facing the neighborhood \u201cstrange ranger.\u201d The whacko WAS armed\u2026and the homeowner died, and his wife was wounded and left for dead.<\/p>\n Now, sent to me first by my good friend Steve Harris, a gun-wise attorney in the metropolitan South, comes this case from Tennessee:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/news\/2011\/feb\/09\/vickie-graves-shoot-intruder-testify-bill\/?partner=popular<\/a><\/p>\n For me, the takeaway lesson from the Tennessee case is that if you\u2019re going to have guns available for home defense, make sure every person in the household who is responsible enough to respond to a life-threatening home invasion KNOWS HOW TO OPERATE THEM. It is unclear from the article why the woman of the house was unable to fire the gun she tried to shoot the home invader with. No round in the chamber, and she didn\u2019t know to rack the slide to get the gun up and running?\u00a0 A manual safety device?\u00a0 Those have saved good guys\u2019 lives many times, though there\u2019s no hundred per cent guarantee, when bad guys got good guys\u2019 guns away from them and tried to shoot them, but \u201cdidn\u2019t know how to turn on the gun.\u201d See my article on the topic in the \u201cAyoob Files\u201d series in the issue of American Handgunner magazine, currently on newsstands or available online cost-free at www.americanhandgunner.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n However, the people we share our lives with \u2013 who might need that gun to protect our lives, or theirs, or our children\u2019s or our grandchildren\u2019s \u2013 can be just as stymied by a manual safety or a lock they don\u2019t know how to release, as a criminal might be. Let\u2019s make sure that those we trust to pick up a gun to defend our home, whether that home is in the backwoods or the inner city, knows not only when but how to use it.<\/p>\n These are lessons that have been written in blood.\u00a0 To ignore those lessons is to spit on the graves of the good people who died that we might learn them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We\u2019ve been discussing the \u201chigh capacity magazine controversy\u201d here of late, and it\u2019s good to see someone getting the message across in mainstream media.\u00a0 Here\u2019s what novelist\/critic Stephen Hunter, one of the best writers of our time in my opinion, had to say on the subject in the Washington Post: http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2011\/02\/04\/AR2011020406709.html In my last post […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearm-owners-civil-rights","8":"category-preparedness","9":"category-safety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}