{"id":6545,"date":"2020-10-31T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=6545"},"modified":"2020-10-30T19:55:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T23:55:51","slug":"halloween-andbeyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/halloween-andbeyond\/","title":{"rendered":"HALLOWEEN AND\u2026BEYOND"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What\u2019s\nscarier than the ghosts and goblins of Halloween?&nbsp; Something that might hit three or four days\nlater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Intelligence\nfrom credible sources indicate that if the Republicans win the upcoming\nelection, the radical left will go nuts, possibly attacking the power grid and\nredoubling the violence we have seen this year in our cities with Antifa, <em>et. al.&nbsp;\n<\/em>Even if the Democrats win, it will send a message of rewarding bad\nbehavior, and disruptive elements will very likely continue with riots and\nlooting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stock up on\ncandy for the trick-or-treaters, but stock up on serious provisions, too.&nbsp; A resurgent pandemic is highly probable, and\nthat plus civil disturbance on an as yet unseen scale may require you to have\nstocks of that COVID-depleted toilet paper\u2026and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Democrat\ncandidates have promised \u201cbuybacks\u201d of certain firearms \u2013 read \u201cmandatory\nconfiscation\u201d here \u2013 which historically has been an early step in Draconian\ngovernmental changes. One asks oneself, \u201cWhat are they planning to do to me\nthat they want me to be disarmed and helpless?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you\ntired of hearing from gun owners\u2019 civil rights groups, \u201cThis is the most\nimportant election ever?\u201d&nbsp; Don\u2019t be.\nThey\u2019re telling you the truth. The last few elections have each become,\nprogressively, exactly that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donald Trump\nwas not my first choice for President, nor my second or third. I voted for him in\n2016 partly because he was the lesser of two evils, but mainly because he would\nbe able to appoint high court justices who would protect our civil rights,\nincluding the Second Amendment. He has done exactly that with his three SCOTUS\nappointments, which I believe will be remembered as his most important\nachievement thus far.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have voted\nfor Trump\/against Biden already for 2020.&nbsp;\nOn the gun side of things, Biden has promised to confiscate property\nlegally purchased and responsibly owned by law-abiding private citizens. That\u2019s\nthe sound of a canary dying in a mine shaft. The raid on your gun cabinet will\nbe followed \u2013 or even preceded \u2013 by a raid on your wallet and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vote. Yes,\nit matters. Look how narrow the margin was between Gore and Bush in the decisive\nstate of Florida a few short years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Halloween is the <em>least <\/em>scary thing going on in America this time of year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s scarier than the ghosts and goblins of Halloween?&nbsp; Something that might hit three or four days later. Intelligence from credible sources indicate that if the Republicans win the upcoming election, the radical left will go nuts, possibly attacking the power grid and redoubling the violence we have seen this year in our cities with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6545","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\/6545","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=6545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6547,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545\/revisions\/6547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}