{"id":5828,"date":"2019-05-16T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=5828"},"modified":"2019-05-07T11:39:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T15:39:30","slug":"the-gun-debate-some-points-to-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/the-gun-debate-some-points-to-review\/","title":{"rendered":"THE GUN DEBATE: SOME POINTS TO REVIEW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is the\nmost contentious and persistent socio-legal policy debate in the United States?\nIt\u2019s probably a tie between \u201cgun control\u201d and abortion.&nbsp; The latter is not within my purview as the\nfirearms editor for <em>Backwoods Home <\/em>magazine,\nwhich hosts this blog, but the former most certainly is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All I can\nsay about that comparison is that on the gun issue, those on my side of the\ndebate get to be both pro-life AND pro-choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Offered for your review, from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/understanding-the-gun-debate-part-1\/ \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"September\/October 2016 issue of Backwoods Home: (opens in a new tab)\">September\/October 2016 issue of <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/understanding-the-gun-debate-part-1\/ \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"September\/October 2016 issue of Backwoods Home: (opens in a new tab)\">Backwoods Home:<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We followed up with this, from the next issue, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/understanding-the-gun-debate-part-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"November\/December 2016: (opens in a new tab)\">November\/December 2016:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feel free to share the links, with friends or in your\nletters to the editors of local news outlets, and your legislators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And of course, as always, your commentary is welcome here at\nthis blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the most contentious and persistent socio-legal policy debate in the United States? It\u2019s probably a tie between \u201cgun control\u201d and abortion.&nbsp; The latter is not within my purview as the firearms editor for Backwoods Home magazine, which hosts this blog, but the former most certainly is. All I can say about that comparison [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5828","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\/5828","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=5828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5830,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828\/revisions\/5830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}