The recent atrocity in Paris reminds us all of the continuing danger from homicidal fanatics.\u00a0 The cowardly murderers ran rampant, unopposed; according to some reports, one or both of the police officers killed in the massacre were unarmed and helpless to fight back.<\/p>\n
President Obama is taking a lot of heat for not flying to Paris to join a reported 40 other heads of state in a show of solidarity.\u00a0 This is one thing I won\u2019t criticize the man for. If I were head of Secret Service I would have stood in the Oval Office and screamed at him, \u201cIt\u2019s nucking futs! Can you imagine a more irresistible target for Islamic terrorists than forty-one <\/em>of you, including the head of the Great Satan itself?!?\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019m frankly amazed that there wasn\u2019t <\/em>an attack on the gathering, though I\u2019m glad there wasn\u2019t\u2026and if the free world\u2019s security services are smart, they won\u2019t tell us if there was <\/em>such a conspiracy and they were able to successfully abort it behind the scenes.<\/p>\n Could it have helped if someone in the Charlie Hedbo offices had been able to shoot back? No guarantees, but it damn sure wouldn\u2019t have hurt!\u00a0 My take on the matter is mentioned here among others\u2019\u00a0 http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/terrorist-attack-in-paris-newsroom-may-be-wake-up-call-for-u.s.-journalists-to-be-armed\/article\/2558337<\/a> .<\/p>\n I was able to discuss the concept earlier in more depth here, in this very Backwoods Home blog http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/2014\/11\/16\/in-the-news\/<\/a> , and here in Backwoods Home Magazine http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/articles2\/ayoob150.html<\/a> .<\/p>\n The prohibitionists and anti-self-defense groups will scoff at the idea that one or more people with handguns among the crop of victims might have thwarted two men who wielded AK47s. They don\u2019t want to hear about Charl van Wyk, who stopped twice <\/em>that many in a South African attack, armed only with his five-shot snub-nose .38 revolver. You can read about his case and more \u2013 and about dozens of helpless victims murdered when there wasn\u2019t <\/em>\u201ca good guy (or gal) with a gun\u201d to stand up for them \u2013 in the current issue of American Handgunner magazine:\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/americanhandgunner.com\/the-false-hope-of-gun-free-zones\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n The authorities expect more such attacks throughout the free world and, yes, here.\u00a0 My advice is load, holster, and be ready.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not about the odds\u2026it\u2019s about the stakes.<\/p>\n That\u2019s enough about what I think. I want to hear what YOU think about this.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The recent atrocity in Paris reminds us all of the continuing danger from homicidal fanatics.\u00a0 The cowardly murderers ran rampant, unopposed; according to some reports, one or both of the police officers killed in the massacre were unarmed and helpless to fight back. President Obama is taking a lot of heat for not flying to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,10,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-events","8":"category-firearm-owners-civil-rights","9":"category-politics","10":"category-preparedness","11":"category-safety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026","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=3026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026\/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=3026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}