{"id":3873,"date":"2016-10-06T16:30:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T20:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=3873"},"modified":"2016-10-06T16:30:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T20:30:28","slug":"on-gun-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/on-gun-control\/","title":{"rendered":"ON \u201cGUN CONTROL\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have an article on \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/understanding-the-gun-debate-part-1\" target=\"_blank\">Understanding the Gun Control Debate<\/a>\u201d in the current issue of <em>Backwoods Home<\/em>.\u00a0 It\u2019s the first of three parts, with part 2 due out soon in the next issue.<\/p>\n<p>The election is almost upon us.\u00a0 If Hillary Clinton is elected, she will appoint Supreme Court justices whose opinions will shape our nation for the next couple of generations.\u00a0 She has declared NRA members to be \u201cthe enemy.\u201d\u00a0 There are still people who say, \u201cBut Hillary swears she believes in the Second Amendment.\u201d\u00a0 That ignores the fact that she said SCOTUS got it wrong in the <em>Heller <\/em>and <em>McDonald <\/em>decisions that said the right to keep and bear arms was an individual right, not an empowerment of state militias.\u00a0 She has spoken favorably of the Australian model of mandatory confiscation of semiautomatic rifles.<\/p>\n<p>Be active. Write respectful letters to the editor or essays for the op-ed pages in your local newspapers.\u00a0 Feel free to link the above-mentioned article.<\/p>\n<p>Our future as gun-owners is on the line, and we\u2019re getting down to the wire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an article on \u201cUnderstanding the Gun Control Debate\u201d in the current issue of Backwoods Home.\u00a0 It\u2019s the first of three parts, with part 2 due out soon in the next issue. The election is almost upon us.\u00a0 If Hillary Clinton is elected, she will appoint Supreme Court justices whose opinions will shape our [&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-3873","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\/3873","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=3873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/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=3873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}