{"id":5886,"date":"2019-06-23T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=5886"},"modified":"2019-06-22T21:08:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T01:08:55","slug":"monumental-ignorance-in-actionand-in-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/monumental-ignorance-in-actionand-in-print\/","title":{"rendered":"MONUMENTAL IGNORANCE IN ACTION\u2026AND IN PRINT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While at the\nPin Shoot I\u2019ve discussed in the last three entries here, I read the \u201cAsk Amy\u201d\nsyndicated advice column and was absolutely dumbfounded at the stupidity and\nignorance of one reader\u2019s question, and more so by the advisor\u2019s answer.&nbsp; I would have written about it then, but was\nfocused on blogging about the match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In between,\nother people with clear minds assessed the \u201cAsk Amy\u201d situation, and said\neverything I could, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our friend Miggy Gonzalez&#8217;s blog was the first response I saw, here: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/gunfreezone.net\/when-hoplophobia-threatens-to-destroy-a-family\/ (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/gunfreezone.net\/when-hoplophobia-threatens-to-destroy-a-family\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/gunfreezone.net\/when-hoplophobia-threatens-to-destroy-a-family\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of TTAG\u2019s writers had this to say on the matter: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/advice-columnist-tells-dad-to-boot-daughter-out-of-his-home-for-owning-a-gun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/advice-columnist-tells-dad-to-boot-daughter-out-of-his-home-for-owning-a-gun\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If \u201cAsk Amy\u201d is supposed to be the mass media\u2019s idea of\ncommon sense advice, the inmates truly <em>are\n<\/em>running the asylum.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While at the Pin Shoot I\u2019ve discussed in the last three entries here, I read the \u201cAsk Amy\u201d syndicated advice column and was absolutely dumbfounded at the stupidity and ignorance of one reader\u2019s question, and more so by the advisor\u2019s answer.&nbsp; I would have written about it then, but was focused on blogging about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5886","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\/5886","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=5886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5888,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886\/revisions\/5888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}