{"id":1411,"date":"2011-08-03T22:54:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T02:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2011-08-03T22:54:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T02:54:57","slug":"gosh-toto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/gosh-toto\/","title":{"rendered":"GOSH, TOTO\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u200bAs I listen to some of the BS from those who want to keep free people from protecting themselves and their loved ones with arms, it gets so weird I sometimes want to say, \u201cGosh, Toto, we\u2019re not in Kansas anymore.\u201d I couldn\u2019t have said that ten days or so ago, when I was in Kansas, teaching a MAG-20 course on the rules of engagement for armed citizens. Kansas was one of those states which, not so long ago, had no provision for ordinary folks to carry loaded, concealed handguns in public. Now, thanks to lots of good, committed activists, they have egalitarian \u201cshall issue\u201d carry. There has been no blood in the streets, except maybe now and then the blood of violent criminals who suffered a sudden and acute failure of the victim selection process and attacked intended prey that beat them at their own game.
\n\u200bOld friend and tireless fighter for gun owners\u2019 civil rights Dave Workman calls to our attention an excellent article in the Detroit Free Press, which overcame what some Michigan gun owners consider to be a long-standing anti-gun prejudice to publish some refreshingly honest journalism. On the ten year anniversary of that state switching from the old \u201cmay issue\u201d paradigm, in which the authorities could arbitrarily decide whether or not to issue you a carry permit, to the modern egalitarian \u201cshall issue\u201d protocol that forces the state to grant the privilege to all sane, law-abiding citizens who apply, the Free Press did some digging. They discovered that blood doesn\u2019t run in the streets, and a helluva lot of good people get peace of mind from the safety a defensive firearm affords them and their family. \u00a0Some of those good people get more than that: they get to LIVE, when before they might have helplessly died. \u00a0Way better than the bad old days when if you lived in Wayne County, the Detroit area, it was said that you pretty much had to contribute to the anti-gun mayor\u2019s re-election campaign if you wanted a carry permit.
\n\u200bRead it HERE<\/a>, complete with links.
\n\u200bInteresting that when the gun prohibitionists make lists of \u201cCarry permit holders who turn killer,\u201d they include suicides and presumably criminals killed in defense of innocent victims by concealed carry permit holders\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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