{"id":1214,"date":"2011-02-24T10:47:30","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T14:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2011-02-24T10:47:30","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T14:47:30","slug":"why-a-second-amendment-events-in-the-middle-east-remind-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/why-a-second-amendment-events-in-the-middle-east-remind-us\/","title":{"rendered":"WHY A SECOND AMENDMENT? EVENTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST REMIND US\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly a month ago, the sudden unrest in Egypt turned violent and criminal, prompting the law-abiding citizens to form ad hoc neighborhood groups to defend themselves. Those who could get their hands on a shotgun in a country where strict gun control limits firearms ownership to the rich and powerful, were the lucky ones. Read about it here: http:\/\/www.aolnews.com\/2011\/01\/30\/with-egyptian-police-absent-civilians-arm-themselves-to-protect\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t long before one of the more moonbeams-and-butterflies anti-gun bloggers had waxed eloquent about how the Egyptian uprising had shown that with strict gun control, there could be peaceful revolution without anyone getting hurt. I guess she missed the three-figure death count in the first few days in Egypt, and the prisons emptying and the criminals looting guns from armories abandoned by the same police who abandoned the law-abiding citizens there.<\/p>\n

And look what\u2019s happening in Libya: http:\/\/www.aolnews.com\/2011\/02\/24\/libyan-army-hits-mosque-near-tripoli-witness-says\/?icid=maing%7Cmain5%7Cdl3%7Csec1_lnk3%7C46275<\/a><\/p>\n

And in Tunisia:\u00a0 http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/africa\/2011\/01\/2011116141359683604.html<\/a><\/p>\n

And folks are getting nervous in Lebanon: http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/print-edition\/news\/mess-report-fearing-civil-war-lebanese-citizens-arm-themselves-1.318287<\/a><\/p>\n

Over the last few weeks, on airplanes and in restaurants all over the country, I\u2019ve overheard conversations in which people compare current events in the Middle East to the American Revolution. I just bite my tongue. I hope I\u2019m wrong, but I fear that a year from now Egypt is going to look less like the United States in the late 18th<\/sup> Century than like Iran right now.<\/p>\n

But, if nothing else, these recent events show us the vision of the Founders and Framers who gave us the Second Amendment. Anyone who thinks 2A is obsolete in the 21st<\/sup> Century need only look to what is happening in the Middle East today.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s you folks\u2019 take on it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nearly a month ago, the sudden unrest in Egypt turned violent and criminal, prompting the law-abiding citizens to form ad hoc neighborhood groups to defend themselves. Those who could get their hands on a shotgun in a country where strict gun control limits firearms ownership to the rich and powerful, were the lucky ones. Read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[54,85,97,98],"class_list":{"0":"post-1214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearm-owners-civil-rights","8":"tag-egypt-tunisia","9":"tag-japete","10":"tag-lebanon","11":"tag-libya"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","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=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/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=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}