{"id":6067,"date":"2019-12-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=6067"},"modified":"2019-12-05T19:19:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T00:19:40","slug":"stupid-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/stupid-statements\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Statements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recently ran across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/ap\/2019\/12\/04\/florida-republican-we-should-hang-treasonous-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"this in Snopes (opens in a new tab)\">this in Snopes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a time when we are debating \u201cRed Flag Laws,\u201d do we agree that this sort of homicidal hyperbole is monumentally stupid? My \u201cday job,\u201d if you will, is teaching the judicious and lawful use of deadly force in defense of self or other innocent parties.\u00a0 (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/massadayoobgroup.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/massadayoobgroup.com<\/a>)\u00a0 Responsibility in balance with power.\u00a0 Advocating killing those we disagree with is not a good fit with responsibility.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Deadly-Force_02-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"6069\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Deadly-Force_02.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/deadly-force_02\/\" class=\"wp-image-6069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Deadly-Force_02-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Deadly-Force_02-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Deadly-Force_02-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Deadly-Force_02.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"672\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BWH12_18_01-672x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"6068\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BWH12_18_01.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/bwh12_18_01\/\" class=\"wp-image-6068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BWH12_18_01-672x1024.jpg 672w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BWH12_18_01-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BWH12_18_01-768x1170.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BWH12_18_01-1008x1536.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BWH12_18_01-1344x2048.jpg 1344w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BWH12_18_01.jpg 1621w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Over more than a decade, this moderated blog has hosted well\nover 31,000 comments from readers. I\u2019ve had to disallow fewer than a\nhundred.&nbsp; The most recent did not appear\nhere because it said, \u201cWhen they violet (sic) the oath they become traitors\nkill them all.\u201d&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The old gatekeeper here simply does not allow drivel like\nthat to get through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hell, I should have blocked that one for the malapropism\nalone.&nbsp; It reminded me of a joke:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Young Husband: My wife was mad at me, so I went to the\nflower shop and bought her a bouquet, but she\u2019s still angry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Old Husband: What kind of flowers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Young Husband: Violets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Old Husband: Well, no wonder. You should have bought her\nroses. Someone should have told you\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026\u201dViolets never solved anything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently ran across this in Snopes In a time when we are debating \u201cRed Flag Laws,\u201d do we agree that this sort of homicidal hyperbole is monumentally stupid? My \u201cday job,\u201d if you will, is teaching the judicious and lawful use of deadly force in defense of self or other innocent parties.\u00a0 (http:\/\/massadayoobgroup.com)\u00a0 Responsibility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6067","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\/6067","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=6067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6070,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions\/6070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}