{"id":5024,"date":"2018-07-16T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=5024"},"modified":"2018-07-08T11:59:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T15:59:14","slug":"profile-of-the-mass-murderer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/profile-of-the-mass-murderer\/","title":{"rendered":"PROFILE OF THE MASS MURDERER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mass murderers, spurred by lust for publicity from an American media that seems to dance in the blood of the innocent, have done more to bring down hate on legitimate gun owners than any other focal point.\u00a0 It is important to understand them if we hope to prevent further such horrors.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI recently published its survey of those twisted creatures, unfortunately titled \u201cA Study of Pre-Attack Behaviors of Active Shooters in the United States Between 2000 and 2013.\u201d\u00a0 I say \u201cunfortunately titled\u201d because, in the circles of advanced police firearms and deadly force trainers in which I travel, that term has given way to \u201cActive Killers\u201d or \u201cActive Mass Murderers.\u201d\u00a0 In plain English, the regular hunter or target shooting hobbyist is an \u201cactive shooter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/file-repository\/pre-attack-behaviors-of-active-shooters-in-us-2000-2013.pdf\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">find the study here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reading through the lens of common sense, it becomes apparent that waiting periods and universal background checks would have done little to keep these sickos from obtaining the weapons they used to commit their heinous crimes.<\/p>\n<p>It is significant that prior to their attacks, a huge number of them had sent up red flags.\u00a0 Those who saw those flags did not act upon them as they should have.<\/p>\n<p>Those of us who have followed such things in the years since those within the scope of the FBI study have seen that pattern continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mass murderers, spurred by lust for publicity from an American media that seems to dance in the blood of the innocent, have done more to bring down hate on legitimate gun owners than any other focal point.\u00a0 It is important to understand them if we hope to prevent further such horrors. The FBI recently published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5024","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\/5024","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=5024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5026,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5024\/revisions\/5026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}