{"id":7386,"date":"2022-07-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=7386"},"modified":"2022-07-20T14:40:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T18:40:47","slug":"sharing-your-knowledge-locally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/sharing-your-knowledge-locally\/","title":{"rendered":"SHARING YOUR KNOWLEDGE LOCALLY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every now and then, I\u2019m a guest speaker at the weekly adult education lectures at my local library.&nbsp; It\u2019s done for free of course.&nbsp; Earlier this month, I did a talk on Understanding Controversial Verdicts.&nbsp; We talked about how a case can present at first as legitimate self-defense (\u201cWhy are they putting that poor person on trial for shooting a criminal?!?\u201d) and turn out to be actionable malice that warrants a conviction, and how a case that initially presents as murder can turn out to be justifiable self-defense once the jury gets the details that weren\u2019t in the newspaper or on TV (\u201cI can\u2019t believe that murdering SOB was acquitted!!!\u201d).&nbsp; Two of the cases I discussed, respectively, were the death of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia and the Rittenhouse case in Kenosha. (My take on both of those cases can be found in my regular \u201cSelf-Defense and the Law\u201d column in the current issue of <em>Combat Handguns<\/em> magazine.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The audience included male and female, black and white, ages fourteen to about eighty. They seemed appreciative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The point of the whole thing was that when only one side is presented by the media, the Court of Public Opinion assumes that there <em>is <\/em>no other side. <em>Silentium in facie accusationis videtur admittere criminis. <\/em>Silence in the face of accusation is seen as admission of guilt.\u00a0 Unfortunately, it\u2019s human nature to not admit that when we bought into a false narrative, we were wrong. It\u2019s something we all have to overcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of you reading this have far more knowledge about things like self-defense law, firearms safety, and even \u201cgun control\u201d than the general public that only sees one side of matters both complex and contentious.&nbsp; It seems to me that we have an ethical duty to get the truth across to our fellow citizens at every opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider offering your services in that regard to your local library. Or to service organizations such as Kiwanis Club, Lions Club, VFW, etc.&nbsp; Every year I speak to at least one bar association conference on how to get the truth across in self-defense cases, and will have done another by the time you read this.&nbsp; Proper use of firearms has kept some of us here alive, and has given the rest of us peace of mind.&nbsp; Explore doing something similar in your community. If it turns out that karma is for real, at least you won\u2019t come back as a dung beetle next time around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then, I\u2019m a guest speaker at the weekly adult education lectures at my local library.&nbsp; It\u2019s done for free of course.&nbsp; Earlier this month, I did a talk on Understanding Controversial Verdicts.&nbsp; We talked about how a case can present at first as legitimate self-defense (\u201cWhy are they putting that poor person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7386","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\/7386","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=7386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7397,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386\/revisions\/7397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}