{"id":3286,"date":"2015-09-15T15:03:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T19:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=3286"},"modified":"2015-09-15T15:03:08","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T19:03:08","slug":"of-guns-and-presidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/of-guns-and-presidents\/","title":{"rendered":"OF GUNS AND PRESIDENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did a \u201cwhiskey-tango-foxtrot\u201d when I read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/2015\/09\/politics\/ronald-reagan-ranch-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>.\u00a0 I\u2019m surprised the Gipper didn\u2019t tell his security detail to pound sand.<\/p>\n<p>Ronald Reagan had a long history with guns.\u00a0 As a young man, he supposedly used a Colt pistol to save a person he saw being attacked in the street (no shots fired).\u00a0 Nancy Reagan spoke of the \u201ccute little gun\u201d she kept readily at hand in the White House. Legend says that Reagan got a permit to carry a Smith &amp; Wesson .32 in a shoulder holster when he got death threats back in his Screen Actors Guild days.<\/p>\n<p>Most American presidents have been gun owners\u2026until, ahem, recently.\u00a0 There is that faked-looking photo of Barack Obama shooting at clay birds.\u00a0 Bill Clinton had some part in assassinating a duck with a Benelli shotgun in a waterfowl hunt supposedly staged to show his support for Second Amendment rights.\u00a0 (Yeah, right.)\u00a0 And, yes, when you kill something for political reasons, I think \u201cassassination\u201d is the appropriate term.<\/p>\n<p>A bit more on <a href=\"http:\/\/seanlinnane.blogspot.com\/2013\/03\/presidents-guns.html\" target=\"_blank\">Presidents and their guns<\/a>, and more discussion on <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.1911forum.com\/showthread.php?t=499967&amp;utm_source=Community&amp;2BBulletin&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_campaign=1911-Forum-Community-Bulletin-2015-09-14\" target=\"_blank\">Secret Service separating Reagan from his guns<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did a \u201cwhiskey-tango-foxtrot\u201d when I read\u00a0this.\u00a0 I\u2019m surprised the Gipper didn\u2019t tell his security detail to pound sand. Ronald Reagan had a long history with guns.\u00a0 As a young man, he supposedly used a Colt pistol to save a person he saw being attacked in the street (no shots fired).\u00a0 Nancy Reagan spoke of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-events"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286","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=3286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/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=3286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}