{"id":5666,"date":"2019-02-17T20:00:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T01:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=5666"},"modified":"2019-02-17T20:00:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T01:00:54","slug":"2a-wars-another-dispatch-from-the-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/2a-wars-another-dispatch-from-the-front\/","title":{"rendered":"2A WARS: ANOTHER DISPATCH FROM THE FRONT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yesterday, I was one of several speakers at a rally hosted by Florida Carry<\/a>. These grassroots organizations are doing tremendously important work at the state and local level for gun owners\u2019 civil rights, and for the basic human right of self-defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This conclave took place the day after yet another highly publicized mass murder, this one in Aurora, IL<\/a>.  Unsurprisingly, it turned out that the workplace where the disgruntled ex-employee opened fire was yet another gun-free zone hunting preserve for psychopathic murderers.  What else might be familiar in that case?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Killer was\nalready a person prohibited from owning firearms, in this case a convicted\nviolent felon? Check.  Fell through the\ncracks on background check for gun purchase? Check.  Was turned down for concealed carry permit\nwhen his felony record was discovered, but never relieved of his illegally\npossessed hardware? Check.  No one inside\nthe premises who could shoot back? Check. \nKnew where rescuing police had to enter, and ambushed them there?  Check, sending five of them to the\nhospital.  (A discreetly armed good\nperson already inside the premises would, tactically, have had a much better\nchance of surprising and neutralizing the mad dog before he murdered five\ninnocent victims.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speakers at\nFlorida Carry included 2A advocates and one armed citizen who fatally overcame\na home invader with the help of his courageous wife (and a couple of .38\nSpecials).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you aren\u2019t already, get involved at the local level.  Spread the truth about this polarized issue. Truth is the only antidote to the increasingly massive and toxic prohibitionist propaganda we are seeing in the media. For example, consider this paper <\/a>by Professor John Lott explaining how the seemingly <\/em>common sense Universal Background Check scheme would penalize and criminalize law-abiding Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One point I\nmade at the rally is that it took twenty years, from when I went on the Today <\/em>show in the wake of the Columbine\nmassacre to advocate for the proven Israeli model of arming and training\nvolunteer school faculty members, to the same recommendation being made very\nrecently by a blue ribbon panel in Florida in the aftermath of the Parkland\natrocity.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Blogger and Podcaster Rob Morse speaks at the rally. There is more truth about 2A issues in the blogosphere than in the mass media.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Charlie Cook of GunGrams and Riding Shotgun with Charlie hosts many 2A advocates on his YouTube channel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Foster Coker tells of his harrowing battle to the death with an armed home invader.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jim Dykes Florida Carry board talks about the organization’s activities.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I was one of several speakers at a rally hosted by Florida Carry. These grassroots organizations are doing tremendously important work at the state and local level for gun owners\u2019 civil rights, and for the basic human right of self-defense. This conclave took place the day after yet another highly publicized mass murder, this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5666","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\/5666","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=5666"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5671,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666\/revisions\/5671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}