{"id":4278,"date":"2017-07-27T12:11:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T16:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=4278"},"modified":"2017-07-27T12:11:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T16:11:30","slug":"another-victory-for-self-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/another-victory-for-self-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER VICTORY FOR SELF-DEFENSE"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love good news.<\/p>\n

The District of Columbia was recently found to be out of line in requiring special reasons to fear crime as suitable grounds for issuing a concealed carry permit.\u00a0 Read the decision here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Civil rights advocates will recall when the Supreme Court of the United States ruled, in Heller v. District of Columbia, <\/em>that DC was out of line in prohibiting its residents from owning handguns for self-defense. Thus began a long and fascinating chain of litigation; I expect you\u2019re all familiar with that, and I won\u2019t bore you by recounting it here.<\/p>\n

As I and others predicted, DC put up enough red tape to constitute a concertina wire to keep its citizens from carrying guns to protect themselves. One element of that was the District\u2019s requirement for the applicant for a carry permit to show that they had already been violently attacked, or at least, were more likely than the average person to suffer such a thing.<\/p>\n

The states break down into \u201cmay issue\u201d (translation: we can give you a permit if we feel like it) and \u201cshall issue\u201d (we have to give you the permit or show just cause why not, just cause being that we have sound reason to believe you\u2019re a criminal, you\u2019re nuts, or you otherwise would be even more of a danger to society if you were armed.)<\/p>\n

Logic cringes at the thought.\u00a0 You have to have already <\/em>been attacked by someone trying to unlawfully kill you, before you can have a permit to protect yourself from that? Um, duh, how do you survive that first attempt long enough to apply for the permit in hopes of warding it off the second time?<\/p>\n

Those who know me, know that for decades I\u2019ve pointed out the fact that the defensive firearm is a direct analog to a fire extinguisher.\u00a0 Each of those items is an emergency safety\/rescue tool, whose purpose is to allow the ordinary citizen who becomes the first responder to ward off death or great bodily harm until the designated public safety professionals can get there to help. The gun doesn\u2019t make you a cop and doesn\u2019t mean you don\u2019t need cops.\u00a0 The fire extinguisher doesn\u2019t make you a trained firefighter and doesn\u2019t mean you no longer need firefighters.\u00a0 \u201cEmergency safety\/rescue tool\u2026first responder\u2026the one there on the ground when the conflagration breaks out, and the one right now positioned to be the best candidate to stop something horrible from happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

Duh.<\/p>\n

How would the American public react if they were told they could only have a fire extinguisher in their home or car if they had already gone through the horror of a full-blown house fire?\u00a0 That\u2019s what the Bloombergs of the world are asking for when they demand \u201cspecial reason\u201d to carry a firearm in self-defense.\u00a0 Just a different type of life-threatening danger, is all.\u00a0 But with one stark and important difference:\u00a0 No fire ever stopped by itself because the victim picked up an extinguisher, but a HUGE number of violent attacks are broken off by the criminal as soon as he realizes he has met armed resistance, without a shot being fired.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Alan Gura, the rock star of pro-armed-citizen litigation these days\u2026and to the Second Amendment Foundation, which hired him to bring this case to its currently successful conclusion.<\/p>\n

And, by the way, thanks again to all here who voted for a President who put one more pro-gun, pro-self defense Justice on the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been on the Board of Trustees of the Second Amendment Foundation for many years. I\u2019ve been proud of that.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never been prouder than now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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