{"id":1636,"date":"2012-02-13T11:31:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T15:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=1636"},"modified":"2012-02-13T11:31:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T15:31:10","slug":"good-material-from-cato-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/good-material-from-cato-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"GOOD  MATERIAL  FROM  CATO  INSTITUTE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent white paper from Cato Institute has some good info for those who keep guns at home, or legally carry them in public, for personal protection. \u00a0Link for the document: \u201c<a title=\"Tough Targets\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/pub_display.php?pub_id=14031\" target=\"_blank\">Tough Targets<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ToughTargets.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1637\" title=\"ToughTargets\" src=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ToughTargets-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ToughTargets-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ToughTargets.jpg 344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a>They\u2019ve done their homework.<\/p>\n<p>The co-authors bring good credentials to the issue.\u00a0 Clayton Cramer has long been a highly respected researcher in this field, and David Burnett serves Students for Concealed Carry as PR director.<br \/>\nLearn how a national news magazine\u2019s supposedly impartial roundup of \u201cfacts\u201d in the gun control\u00a0 wound up understating the frequency of justifiable homicides in defense of self or others by more than half.<\/p>\n<p>Read account after documented account of law-abiding men and women and even responsible kids who, in life-threatening emergencies, picked up loaded guns and used them successfully to save the lives of themselves, of loved ones, and even of total strangers who had come under violent criminal or animal attack.<\/p>\n<p>Have a read.<\/p>\n<p>Get back and let us know what you think about it here at <em>Backwoods Home Blog.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>True accounts of your own experiences in this vein, or documentable experiences of others you know, are invited as well.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and don\u2019t forget a Valentine\u2019s Day visit to Starbucks to support that company\u2019s refusal to ban lawfully armed citizen customers.\u00a0 A $2 bill in the baristas\u2019 tip jar signifies \u201cSecond Amendment support.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent white paper from Cato Institute has some good info for those who keep guns at home, or legally carry them in public, for personal protection. \u00a0Link for the document: \u201cTough Targets\u201d They\u2019ve done their homework. The co-authors bring good credentials to the issue.\u00a0 Clayton Cramer has long been a highly respected researcher 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":[7,11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearms","8":"category-preparedness","9":"category-reviews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636","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=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/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=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}