{"id":2698,"date":"2014-04-27T08:29:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T12:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2014-04-27T08:29:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T12:29:11","slug":"guns-for-privileged-we-not-peasant-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/guns-for-privileged-we-not-peasant-thee\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGUNS FOR PRIVILEGED WE, NOT PEASANT THEE\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Evil Princess and I took a pleasant spring day walk from the NRA meeting at the convention center in Indianapolis to the Veterans Park, where the Bloomberg-financed Everytown crew was holding forth.\u00a0 How ironic that they would speak for diminution of gun owners\u2019 civil rights in the shadow of a monument to those who died fighting for those rights\u2026<\/p>\n<p>We couldn\u2019t help but notice the guys straight out of central casting, burly fellas with black suits, Oakley style black glasses, and most with obligatory shaven heads.\u00a0 One confirmed to me that they were \u201cprivate security,\u201d and \u201cthree or four\u201d in number.\u00a0 Didn\u2019t look quite like the 300 protesters they claimed.\u00a0 Photos and commentary can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/gunfreezone.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/04\/26\/mom-shannon-watts-demands-armed-private-security-you-must-remain-unarmed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gun Free Zone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Indy02W.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/life\/2014\/04\/24\/armed-gun-permits-indiana-women-percent\/8095055\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2700 alignright\" alt=\"Indy02W\" src=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Indy02W-225x300.jpg\" width=\"135\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Indy02W-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Indy02W.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reportedly, several of those folks had to be bused in, courtesy of the Bloomberg money.\u00a0 Meanwhile, some 18,000 women came on their own to the NRA meeting, according to the <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/life\/2014\/04\/24\/armed-gun-permits-indiana-women-percent\/8095055\/\" target=\"_blank\">Indianapolis Star<\/a>, <\/i>which seems to be giving fair and balanced coverage.<\/p>\n<p>The whole anti-gun group in the park wouldn\u2019t have filled one aisle in the nine acres of gun displays at the NRA meeting.\u00a0 Yet they claim to represent the majority.\u00a0 Clearly, New York City <i>chutzpah <\/i>was imported to Hoosier country along with the New York City dollars.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Editorial cartoon, Indianapolis Star, last Friday<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/garyvarvel\/2014\/04\/25#.U1zzL_n6NJk\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2699\" alt=\"Indy01W\" src=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Indy01W-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Indy01W-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Indy01W.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Evil Princess and I took a pleasant spring day walk from the NRA meeting at the convention center in Indianapolis to the Veterans Park, where the Bloomberg-financed Everytown crew was holding forth.\u00a0 How ironic that they would speak for diminution of gun owners\u2019 civil rights in the shadow of a monument to those who 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