{"id":2006,"date":"2012-12-09T15:08:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T19:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2012-12-09T15:08:03","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T19:08:03","slug":"lookin-toward-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/lookin-toward-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"LOOKIN\u2019 TOWARD CHRISTMAS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apologies for not blogging during the past week.\u00a0 Between teaching an advanced course Monday through Friday and reviewing proof copies of a forthcoming publication, there has been precious little time to sit in front of a keyboard.\u00a0 The MAG-80<\/a> is done (you were a great class, gang: my hat is off to both students and staff.)<\/p>\n

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It was my last class of the year. The murder trial scheduled for next week has postponed into first quarter of 2013, and that means (except for routine writing deadlines) I\u2019m free like a normal human being for the rest of the month. Yee-haw!\u00a0 Lights going up on Christmas tree today\u2026<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been an interesting few days in the Outside World.\u00a0 An employee of the auto parts chain Auto Zone was fired because he saved his boss from an armed robber. The good guy slipped out of the store to the parking lot, retrieved his gun from his vehicle, and captured the armed robber without bloodshed. The boss publicly thanked the employee for saving his life.\u00a0 Apparently, however, \u201ccorporate\u201d saw it as a violation of their no-guns policy and took the hero\u2019s job away. I guess none of their corporate counsel remembered law school and \u201cthe doctrine of competing harms,\u201d which allows one to break a rule in an exigent circumstance where following the rule causes more danger than judiciously breaking it.\u00a0 A boycott from outraged gun owners is under way, and I\u2019m told Auto Zone\u2019s FaceBook page has \u201clit up\u201d over the matter.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been an Auto Zone customer for a while if only because it\u2019s the nearest auto parts shop to my home, but I\u2019ll be driving through town to NAPA unless and until this is squared away.\u00a0 A Google search for \u201cAuto Zone \/ Fake Beard Bandit\u201d should get you more info.<\/p>\n

A professional ballplayer murders his wife in the presence of his family, then kills himself, and a commentator cluelessly cites an even more clueless pundit in an anti-gun screed on national television. Disingenuous butt-covering and ass-hattery ensues. My old friend Dave Workman covers it well here:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/costas-demonizes-gun-culture-and-digs-deeper-hole?cid=db_articles<\/a><\/p>\n

And at Chicago\u2019s O\u2019Hare airport, an anti-gun politician is caught at security with a .25 caliber pistol in his carry-on. It looks like another Anti-Gun Hypocrite Alert, until Illinois gun owners\u2019 civil rights activists point out that the politician in question had changed his tune prior to the arrest. An intelligent discussion of the matter can be found at one of my favorite Internet firearms forums, here: http:\/\/www.thehighroad.org\/showthread.php?t=688255<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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