{"id":7192,"date":"2022-02-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=7192"},"modified":"2022-02-26T14:26:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T19:26:16","slug":"too-little-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/too-little-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.personaldefenseworld.com\/2022\/02\/10000-rifles-distributed-to-ukraine-civilians\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ukrainian government is issuing AK47s<\/a> to private citizens to defend their country against the massive Russian invasion,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both times I visited Switzerland, I was taken on tours by military personnel. They showed me the passes that are mined and ready to be detonated as soon as invading tanks begin to move in.&nbsp; They showed me the rifle ranges on which every male of age and a great many women practice high-level marksmanship with the true (selective-fire) assault rifles they are issued by their government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any wonder why the Swiss have maintained their neutrality for lo, these many years?&nbsp; When every citizen you would subjugate is armed and probably a better shot than most of your troops, you become the sort of target that makes enemy generals and tyrants wake up screaming from their nightmares, in a cold sweat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a current meme going around: \u201cIf you want to know why so many Americans own AR15s and \u2018high capacity\u2019 magazines, read your newspaper or turn on your local news channel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How many of those brave Ukrainians will have been trained with the AKs they\u2019ve been issued? It\u2019s a little late now\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 but better late than never.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>update: SAF is urging our support of the Ukrainians: https:\/\/www.saf.org\/saf-urges-support-of-zbroya-the-ukranian-gun-owners-assn\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ukrainian government is issuing AK47s to private citizens to defend their country against the massive Russian invasion, Both times I visited Switzerland, I was taken on tours by military personnel. They showed me the passes that are mined and ready to be detonated as soon as invading tanks begin to move in.&nbsp; They showed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7192","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\/7192","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=7192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7196,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7192\/revisions\/7196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}