{"id":4947,"date":"2018-05-05T09:51:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T13:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=4947"},"modified":"2018-05-05T09:51:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T13:51:15","slug":"nraam-2018-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/nraam-2018-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"NRAAM 2018, PART I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weather was not as stormy as predicted in Dallas on Friday, the first of the three days of the National Rifle Association Annual Meeting.\u00a0 Neither were predicted protests, none in sight of the Convention Center.<\/p>\n<p>The President and Vice President were well received, and their speaking arena was the only one where a \u201cno guns\u201d policy was enforced \u2013 by Secret Service as standard protocol, with NRA having nothing to say about it.\u00a0 Media and Prohibitionists alike accused NRA of hypocrisy for not allowing guns at the conference.\u00a0 <em>Au contraire: <\/em>carry is legal throughout the regular Convention Center area.<\/p>\n<p>The day before NRAAM began, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2018\/04\/30\/sutherland-springs-hero-welcomes-nra-dallas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Dallas Morning News <\/em>carried this inspiring guest column<\/a> by Stephen WIlleford, the armed citizen hero who used an AR15 to bring the Sutherland Springs church massacre to an end: \u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>More to come as NRAAM continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weather was not as stormy as predicted in Dallas on Friday, the first of the three days of the National Rifle Association Annual Meeting.\u00a0 Neither were predicted protests, none in sight of the Convention Center. The President and Vice President were well received, and their speaking arena was the only one where a \u201cno guns\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4948,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947\/revisions\/4948"}],"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=4947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}