{"id":1395,"date":"2011-07-14T11:23:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T15:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2011-07-14T11:23:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T15:23:31","slug":"arizona-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/arizona-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"ARIZONA  INCIDENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now, most everyone has heard the report of an Arizona legislator pointing a gun at someone in the state Capitol. The red dot from a Crimson Trace Laserguard gunsight, attached to a little Ruger LCP .380 pistol, tracked across a reporter\u2019s chest at one point. It\u2019s been all over national news.\u00a0 The senator in question is being painted as everything from a poor example of firearms safety to, as one person put it, \u201ca psycho-chick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reminding us once again that it\u2019s always good to get both sides of the story before joining in a rush to judgment, I offer you this from our friends at TTAG, The Truth About Guns dot com.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/thetruthaboutguns.com\/2011\/07\/daniel-zimmerman\/senator-lori-klein-gives-ttag-her-side-of-the-story\/\">http:\/\/thetruthaboutguns.com\/2011\/07\/daniel-zimmerman\/senator-lori-klein-gives-ttag-her-side-of-the-story\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Links within the link will complete a \u201cboth sides\u201d perspective.\u00a0 What\u2019s your take?<\/p>\n<p>Please let us know here, in the comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Ruger LCP with the Chrimson Trace Laser Grip<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/07_13_11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1397\" title=\"07_13_11\" src=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/07_13_11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/07_13_11.jpg 2735w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/07_13_11-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/07_13_11-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/07_13_11-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong> And from our friend Oleg Volk, The raspberry version of the gun.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/olegvolk.net\/gallery\/d\/38663-2\/ruger_LCP_8573.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"392\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now, most everyone has heard the report of an Arizona legislator pointing a gun at someone in the state Capitol. The red dot from a Crimson Trace Laserguard gunsight, attached to a little Ruger LCP .380 pistol, tracked across a reporter\u2019s chest at one point. It\u2019s been all over national news.\u00a0 The senator in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearms","8":"category-safety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","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=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/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=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}