The Fourth of July is almost upon us, and there are safety concerns.<\/p>\n
There are rumblings from ISIS that they are trying to instigate their minions and the mindless \u201clone wolves\u201d they influence to do bad things to Americans on Independence Day.\u00a0 Ratchet your alertness level up one notch at least, and be ready to protect yourself, and yours, and those around you.<\/p>\n
In commentary on another blog entry here, one of our readers asked about safety tips on fireworks.\u00a0 If it\u2019s being professionally done in your community, my advice is to stand well back away from the damn launchers.\u00a0 A rearward perspective will probably give you a better set of \u201coohs\u201d and \u201caahs\u201d when they burst in the sky anyway.\u00a0 But it will also keep you and your kids more out of range of anything that could go wrong.\u00a0 The worst such debacle I know of occurred when a Chinese sky torpedo, which proved to have been defective, exploded in its launch tube in Michigan. Death and dismemberment resulted.<\/p>\n
Be really, REALLY careful about fireworks at home.\u00a0 I\u2019ve trained multiple one-armed people in self-defense shooting, who needed that special attention because in their younger days they were careless with home-made fireworks and assorted other incendiary\/explosive devices.\u00a0 We can all learn from their suffering.<\/p>\n
With all that said, I\u2019ll be making noise on the Fourth one way or the other.\u00a0 I\u2019m in the process of writing a pre-trial report in a murder case, where I\u2019ll be speaking as an expert witness called by the defense for a young woman who saved her life with a gun when a man attacked her with deadly force.\u00a0 That, obviously, takes precedence over fun.\u00a0 If the report is done as soon as I hope it will be, this weekend I\u2019ll be shooting an IDPA match with good friends.\u00a0 If it isn\u2019t, I\u2019ll take some time off to get out on my own home range and do some trigger pulling, to commemorate the armed citizens of 18th<\/sup> Century America who preserved my right to do so.<\/p>\n For many years now, I\u2019ve been in my beloved home country to celebrate the Fourth.\u00a0 In my younger days, with kids to support, I couldn\u2019t teach classes on holidays so July 4 usually found me in another nation earning money for my wife and children.\u00a0 Most often \u2013 before their handgun ban of 1996, which must have made the longbowmen of Agincourt spin in their graves \u2013 that was in one or another part of Great Britain.\u00a0 When I spent the Fourth in the British Empire, I would flush a teabag down a toilet in commemoration of the Boston Tea Party\u2026and my British brothers and sisters understood.<\/p>\n Have a great Independence Day.\u00a0 Stay safe!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Fourth of July is almost upon us, and there are safety concerns. There are rumblings from ISIS that they are trying to instigate their minions and the mindless \u201clone wolves\u201d they influence to do bad things to Americans on Independence Day.\u00a0 Ratchet your alertness level up one notch at least, and be ready to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-preparedness","8":"category-safety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216","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=3216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/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=3216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}