{"id":7777,"date":"2023-04-21T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=7777"},"modified":"2023-04-18T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:45:00","slug":"backup-handguns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/backup-handguns\/","title":{"rendered":"BACKUP HANDGUNS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A friend of mine, a retired chief of police still very much involved in firearms and tactics training, recently asked me for some cases in which a second handgun had saved the life of a Good Guy or Gal in a gunfight against homicidal criminals.&nbsp; It reminded me that it\u2019s a subject I ought to address here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tactical-life.com\/firearm-news\/7-real-life-lifesaving-backup-firearm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article was done<\/a> a few years ago.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me add that backup can be important in several ways.&nbsp; If you are with someone competent to use a gun but not carrying their own and deadly danger threatens, the second gun allows you to arm them for this exigent circumstance.&nbsp; A second gun accessible to either hand can be a life-saver if one of your upper limbs is taken out of action early in the encounter. Under some circumstances, reaching for the second loaded gun can get you back in the fight faster than reloading the one that just ran empty.&nbsp; In a recent sad case, a punk grabbed a gun an armed citizen was carrying and, when the latter tried to get it back with bare hands, the criminal shot and killed him: a second gun accessible to the law-abiding citizen might have changed that outcome for the better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine, a retired chief of police still very much involved in firearms and tactics training, recently asked me for some cases in which a second handgun had saved the life of a Good Guy or Gal in a gunfight against homicidal criminals.&nbsp; It reminded me that it\u2019s a subject I ought to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7777","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\/7777","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=7777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7790,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777\/revisions\/7790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}