{"id":5849,"date":"2019-05-30T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=5849"},"modified":"2019-05-30T11:06:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T15:06:56","slug":"of-guns-prepping-and-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/of-guns-prepping-and-math\/","title":{"rendered":"OF GUNS, \u201cPREPPING,\u201d AND MATH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of our blog readers, Terry Fossler, brought <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/s\/story\/the-surprisingly-solid-mathematical-case-of-the-tin-foil-hat-gun-prepper-15fce7d10437\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"this excellent essay (opens in a new tab)\">this excellent essay<\/a> to our attention.\u00a0 It\u2019s more than worth the time it will take you to read it, particularly if you follow the wise practice of preparing for the worst while hoping for the best, and take a lot of crap over it from short-sighted ostriches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note the author\u2019s\ncomments about the history of Russia.&nbsp; No\nsooner did the communists take over than the general public was largely\ndisarmed.&nbsp; When Hitler invaded them, the\nRussians couldn\u2019t make enough rifles to arm all their soldiers adequately, let\nalone the populace.&nbsp; Just suppose if\nevery peasant cottage had contained a Nagant rifle or equivalent\u2026a gigantic\nSwitzerland, if you will.&nbsp; I strongly\nsuspect that the Nazi invaders would have bogged down amidst the corpses of\ntheir own dead well before they reached Stalingrad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our blog readers, Terry Fossler, brought this excellent essay to our attention.\u00a0 It\u2019s more than worth the time it will take you to read it, particularly if you follow the wise practice of preparing for the worst while hoping for the best, and take a lot of crap over it from short-sighted ostriches. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5849","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\/5849","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=5849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5856,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849\/revisions\/5856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}