{"id":5063,"date":"2018-08-14T21:50:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T01:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=5063"},"modified":"2018-08-14T21:50:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T01:50:31","slug":"a-good-read-about-a-good-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/a-good-read-about-a-good-man\/","title":{"rendered":"A GOOD READ ABOUT A GOOD MAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up a copy of <em>The<\/em> <em>Atlantic <\/em>magazine yesterday, and was pleasantly surprised to find a neutral-to-positive article there on a card carrying member of the gun culture.\u00a0 John Correia (pronounced \u201cKorea\u201d) is a friend, and like many I follow his YouTube channel in which he reviews surveillance and patrol camera videos of gunfights and other violent encounters, presenting each with analysis and learning points.<\/p>\n<p>The YouTube channel is here:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCsE_m2z1NrvF2ImeNWh84mw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCsE_m2z1NrvF2ImeNWh84mw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The article is here:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2018\/09\/john-correia-self-defense\/565739\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2018\/09\/john-correia-self-defense\/565739\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>John\u2019s started as a clergyman, and came to focus on teaching good people to defend themselves, as approved by the Good Book itself.\u00a0 He\u2019s an advanced martial artist, and a hell of a good combat pistol shot.\u00a0 When he took my MAG-40 class (<a href=\"http:\/\/massadayoobgroup.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/massadayoobgroup.com<\/a>), he followed the advice I give incoming students who are already highly skilled, and shot it mirror image: that is, as a lefty even though he is naturally right-handed.\u00a0 He not only shot a perfect 300 out of 300 score on the final qualification, but had a tighter-grouped 300 than I shot on the demonstration, breaking the tie and winning our traditional autographed $5 bill for beating the instructor.<\/p>\n<p>Check out John\u2019s video analyses.\u00a0 You\u2019ll find good, potentially life-saving advice there. Kudos to him \u2013 and to <em>The Atlantic <\/em>for taking a truthful, unbiased look at a topic many see as \u201cpolitically incorrect.\u201d When you read it, it wouldn\u2019t hurt to make a positive feedback comment to <em>The Atlantic.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up a copy of The Atlantic magazine yesterday, and was pleasantly surprised to find a neutral-to-positive article there on a card carrying member of the gun culture.\u00a0 John Correia (pronounced \u201cKorea\u201d) is a friend, and like many I follow his YouTube channel in which he reviews surveillance and patrol camera videos of gunfights [&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-5063","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\/5063","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=5063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5064,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063\/revisions\/5064"}],"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=5063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}