{"id":1822,"date":"2012-07-06T22:52:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T02:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2012-07-06T22:52:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T02:52:19","slug":"kids-and-guns-from-a-different-angle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/kids-and-guns-from-a-different-angle\/","title":{"rendered":"KIDS AND GUNS \u2013 FROM A DIFFERENT ANGLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News comes from Phoenix of a fourteen-year old boy who protected his younger siblings with a shotgun, shooting a home invader to a stop and leaving the man seriously wounded.\u00a0 It looks as if the authorities are handling it well. <a href=\"http:\/\/ktar.com\/22\/1555146\/Teenager-shot-suspect-in-home-invasion\">http:\/\/ktar.com\/22\/1555146\/Teenager-shot-suspect-in-home-invasion<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cother side\u201d dances in the blood of every horror story in which an irresponsible youth gets hold of a gun and tragedy ensues.\u00a0 However, incidents like the one in Phoenix have also happened before, and doubtless will again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I had a loaded Colt in the desk drawer of my bedroom from age twelve on, and at the same age started carrying concealed when I worked in my father\u2019s jewelry store.\u00a0 It\u2019s about the individual kid, and that kid\u2019s responsibility level.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A loaded gun where a responsible young person can reach it to protect home and family when the resident adults aren\u2019t there to do it \u2026 what\u2019s <em>your <\/em>take on the topic?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News comes from Phoenix of a fourteen-year old boy who protected his younger siblings with a shotgun, shooting a home invader to a stop and leaving the man seriously wounded.\u00a0 It looks as if the authorities are handling it well. http:\/\/ktar.com\/22\/1555146\/Teenager-shot-suspect-in-home-invasion &nbsp; The \u201cother side\u201d dances in the blood of every horror story in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","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=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/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=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}