{"id":763,"date":"2010-03-24T21:35:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T01:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=763"},"modified":"2010-03-24T21:35:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T01:35:11","slug":"concealed-carry-an-idea-whose-time-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/concealed-carry-an-idea-whose-time-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"CONCEALED CARRY: AN IDEA WHOSE TIME IS HERE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good lord, the thing with carrying guns in Starbucks has become a theme in Doonesbury this week. A certain kind of lightweight yuppie seems to morbidly fear those who are comfortable with a power they can\u2019t imagine themselves wielding.<\/p>\n

Some fellas just need to unbunch their panties and take a look at real world responsibilities. In a nation of some 320 million people, well under a million police officers simply aren\u2019t enough to proactively protect everyone. Do the math. Self-defense is a natural personal responsibility, right up there with first responder emergency medical abilities. Those whose stomachs are too weak to accept their own capability in this regard seek to denigrate those who do live up to their responsibilities.\u00a0 Sad, really.<\/p>\n

Such people have for decades opposed the carrying of handguns for personal protection by ordinary citizens, wailing that \u201cblood will run in the streets\u201d and there will be \u201cshootouts over parking spaces.\u201d\u00a0 Of course, that hasn\u2019t happened\u2026but reality doesn\u2019t seem to get in the way of their stridently-voiced panic.<\/p>\n

THIS LINK<\/a> confirms that despite the fact that guns have proliferated greatly in the last few years \u2013 and so has the ability to legally carry them loaded and concealed in public \u2013 the rate of violent crime has gone DOWN during the same timeframe.<\/p>\n

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Good lord, the thing with carrying guns in Starbucks has become a theme in Doonesbury this week. A certain kind of lightweight yuppie seems to morbidly fear those who are comfortable with a power they can\u2019t imagine themselves wielding. Some fellas just need to unbunch their panties and take a look at real world responsibilities. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearm-owners-civil-rights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}