{"id":1696,"date":"2012-03-16T22:03:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T02:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2012-03-16T22:03:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T02:03:37","slug":"a-thought-on-st-paddys-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/a-thought-on-st-paddys-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A THOUGHT ON ST. PADDY\u2019S DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sure an\u2019 begorrah, laddies and colleens, I\u2019m wishin\u2019 ya a Happy Saint Patrick\u2019s Day, with the wind at yer back an\u2019 all o\u2019 that.\u00a0 Be sure that ye wear green, and verdigris on your bullets doesn\u2019t count.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It\u2019s also time to be talking with your representatives on Capitol Hill urging them to support National Concealed Carry Reciprocity, which is coming up for a vote.\u00a0 Now, that O\u2019Bama fella not only isn\u2019t really Irish, he also is quite likely in his next term to go for the hard core \u201cgun control\u201d agenda he always supported before he got elected.\u00a0 The general consensus in the gun community is that he has laid off gun owners in his first term because he doesn\u2019t want to antagonize us before the coming elections this November, but that once he\u2019s reelected, his gloves and his mask will both come off.\u00a0 He has reportedly told the anti-gunners that he\u2019s working on their agenda under the radar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">INFO ON THE BILL IS HERE:\u00a0<a href=\" http:\/\/www.nraila.org\/legislation\/federal-legislation\/2012\/national-right-to-carry-reciprocity-act-of-2012-introduced-in-us-senate.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/www.nraila.org\/legislation\/federal-legislation\/2012\/national-right-to-carry-reciprocity-act-of-2012-introduced-in-us-senate.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I would kind of like this bill to get to the President\u2019s desk to be signed while he is still reluctant to antagonize millions of honest, one-issue voters.\u00a0 There are some on our own side who feel that national reciprocity smacks too much of Federalism, and some who hint that it\u2019s a dark Democrat conspiracy to steal our guns.\u00a0 Nobody has a better handle on the matter than the National Rifle Association and their Institute for Legislative Action, both of which are pushing strongly for national reciprocity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The bill as written is not perfect, but nobody gets \u201cperfect.\u201d\u00a0 It will allow a helluva lot more good, law-abiding citizens to protect themselves and their families in public, in a helluva lot more places than the practice is allowed now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The good Saint Patrick was said to have driven the snakes out of Ireland.\u00a0 National concealed carry won\u2019t drive all the human snakes out of the United States, but it will give more good people the option to protect themselves, one snake at a time.\u00a0 It will save lives, and it will give peace of mind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I\u2019d be interested in all y\u2019all\u2019s take on this. I for one am solidly for it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure an\u2019 begorrah, laddies and colleens, I\u2019m wishin\u2019 ya a Happy Saint Patrick\u2019s Day, with the wind at yer back an\u2019 all o\u2019 that.\u00a0 Be sure that ye wear green, and verdigris on your bullets doesn\u2019t count. It\u2019s also time to be talking with your representatives on Capitol Hill urging them to support National Concealed [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearm-owners-civil-rights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696","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=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/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=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}