{"id":7330,"date":"2022-06-09T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=7330"},"modified":"2022-06-02T14:18:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T18:18:12","slug":"about-young-adults-and-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/about-young-adults-and-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT YOUNG ADULTS AND GUNS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With the recent Memorial Day observance and the memory of the countless Americans who sacrificed their lives for freedom fresh in our minds, let\u2019s talk about the first thing that\u2019s likely to get thrown under the bus in the current gun owners\u2019 civil rights controversy:&nbsp; Americans 18 to 21 purchasing rifles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I recently read \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3ajVYAy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Rifle<\/a>,\u201d written by a young veteran of the current conflict: Andrew Biggio, named after a forbear killed in Italy during World War II.&nbsp; Seeing the Greatest Generation expiring from old age, he bought a rifle that symbolized their job at the time \u2013 the semiautomatic M-1 Garand, which fired an eight-round clip of .30-06 ammunition much more powerful than the 5.56mm round of today\u2019s service rifle \u2013 and had it autographed by every WWII vet he could find.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When they signed the rifle, they told their stories, and Biggio recounts them movingly in the book.&nbsp; He met one man who, in the Pacific campaign, was overrun by enemy soldiers in a banzai attack.&nbsp; His Garand went empty, and the enemy was upon him before he could reload. He had to use the bayonet at the end of his M-1 to stop the man who was trying to kill him, and when the bayonet became stuck in the dead enemy\u2019s body and he couldn\u2019t pull it free, he had to draw a fighting knife from his belt scabbard and stab his next attacker to death with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(I bet <em>he <\/em>would have appreciated a weapon that could fire more than eight shots before reloading.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not every one of those fighting men used a Garand like the one they signed. They fought with grenades and flamethrowers and satchel charges that blew up reinforced pillboxes. They fought with heavy machine guns, light machine guns, and Browning Automatic Rifles. They fought with carbines and submachine guns and even with pistols. They dropped bombs from airplanes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And most of them weren\u2019t much older than 18 when they signed up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of their comrades weren\u2019t yet 21 when they died for their country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I said in a recent interview after the Uvalde atrocity, if you\u2019re old enough to die for your country with a government-issue machine gun in your hands, you\u2019re old enough to be trusted with an AR15 semiautomatic rifle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that was only one of my take-aways from this memorable book. I\u2019d like to hear <em>your <\/em>thoughts on the subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the recent Memorial Day observance and the memory of the countless Americans who sacrificed their lives for freedom fresh in our minds, let\u2019s talk about the first thing that\u2019s likely to get thrown under the bus in the current gun owners\u2019 civil rights controversy:&nbsp; Americans 18 to 21 purchasing rifles. 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