{"id":2341,"date":"2013-06-26T11:26:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T15:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=2341"},"modified":"2013-06-26T11:26:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T15:26:05","slug":"the-ms-and-the-gun-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/the-ms-and-the-gun-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"THE MS. AND THE GUN, REDUX"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little while ago in this blog, I wrote about an anti-gun lady who did a strange and incredibly stupid thing for the MS <\/i>magazine blog. You can find it here: http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/2013\/06\/17\/false-flags-false-premises\/#comments<\/a><\/p>\n

Someone walking around carrying a gun she admitted she didn\u2019t know how to use was so scary a concept that I still consider it both a false premise and a false flag. The lady in question did so because she is an avowed anti-gunner, and wanted to show the world how dangerous guns are.<\/p>\n

Well, in hands like hers, they are.<\/p>\n

Go to the links to her MS <\/i>magazine blog, found in the link above, and also to the comments on both that site, and the above-linked entry in this Backwoods Home <\/i>blog.\u00a0 You\u2019ll see that in each, many people warned her of the danger she was presenting to herself and others.<\/p>\n

Apparently, MS <\/i>Magazine agreed: they have stopped her insane experiment, at least under their aegis, but it appears that the madness will continue in the Huffington Post.<\/p>\n

Kudos to MS <\/i>magazine for dumping it. I\u2019d be very much interested in hearing the real story from those folks why they wisely aborted this obviously dangerous and doomed mission.\u00a0 I would particularly like to hear from Gloria Steinem on that.<\/p>\n

There aren\u2019t a whole lot of anti-gun people I can say I admire, but Gloria Steinem is one. Hers is the name most associated with MS<\/i> magazine, and I well remember when she burst on the American scene. Her writing was one of the reasons I became an early and unlikely feminist. (Yes, I was in my early twenties then, and yes, she was \u201chawt\u201d as they say today. She\u2019s 79 now, but hell, I\u2019m going on 65, so she\u2019s still in my dating range.)\u00a0 But that\u2019s not important: the important thing to me is that Gloria Steinem embodied an ethos that has served me well for my entire life: the realization that strong, capable, confident women are the most interesting and valuable women. (Funny thing: that works across both genders, doesn\u2019t it?)<\/p>\n

And, I strongly suspect, Gloria Steinem and her true heirs understand how embarrassing it is to everything they stand for when \u201ca clueless woman with a gun\u201d becomes a grotesque stereotype of hysterical incompetence. That is nothing less than anathema to everything they have spent their lives fighting for.<\/p>\n

Ms. Steinem was a pioneer in what was called then the Women\u2019s Liberation Movement. She was and is an avatar of female empowerment. At about the time she co-founded MS <\/i>magazine in 1972, women were already past baby steps and taking long strides to penetrate previously male-oriented job markets.\u00a0 In the construction industry, they didn\u2019t do it as manual laborers and hod carriers, they did it at the hydraulically-operated controls of Caterpillar tractors; in law-enforcement, they didn\u2019t do it with fists but instead with guns and expertly-wielded batons. As one of the first police PR-24 baton instructors, I was able to point other cops to female officers like Missy O\u2019Linn, who later became a great police defense lawyer, and petite Florida cop Pamela Miller because they could make that baton absolutely sing: <\/i>pound for pound, a woman with more limber upper limbs and 30 degrees more flexibility in the pelvic axis could get more power into a properly-executed PR-24 strike than her brother the same height and weight.<\/p>\n

FORCE MULTIPLIER was the operative term.<\/p>\n

And it still is.\u00a0 Check out this video of a young mom being savagely beaten by a home invader \u2013 in front of her three year old child \u2013 recently caught on a \u201cnanny-cam.\u201d \u00a0http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/watch_home_invader_savagely_pummels_hxiWhv2uYrbF0uIPD680BL<\/a> .<\/p>\n

Excuse me all to hell, but I would like to believe that any woman I loved would have been better off with a gun in that situation, explaining to her child how the big man\u2019s white tee-shirt suddenly turned all red and he fell down and stopped trying to hurt decent people, and honey, it\u2019s going to be all right now.\u00a0 It\u2019s easier to explain than the horror the mom in the video will have to explain to her little one.<\/p>\n

And, you know, I would like to believe that Gloria Steinem and the other pioneers of women\u2019s empowerment can recognize that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A little while ago in this blog, I wrote about an anti-gun lady who did a strange and incredibly stupid thing for the MS magazine blog. You can find it here: http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/2013\/06\/17\/false-flags-false-premises\/#comments Someone walking around carrying a gun she admitted she didn\u2019t know how to use was so scary a concept that I still consider […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"category-safety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341","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=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/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=2341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}