{"id":7964,"date":"2023-08-23T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=7964"},"modified":"2023-08-20T12:46:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T16:46:03","slug":"you-know-you-are-being-lied-to-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/you-know-you-are-being-lied-to-when\/","title":{"rendered":"YOU KNOW YOU ARE BEING LIED TO WHEN\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2026you are told that firearms are the leading cause of death among children, and then find out that nineteen-year-old thugs killing each other in drug turf wars are considered by the source to be children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s a clue, Prohibitionists:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Old enough to join the military without parental consent.<\/li><li>Old enough to marry without parental consent.<\/li><li>Old enough to vote.<\/li><li>Old enough that you will be tried for your crimes as an adult.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Then you are not a child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Expertly addressed by Professor John Lott, <a href=\"https:\/\/crimeresearch.org\/2023\/05\/looking-at-the-false-claim-that-firearms-are-the-leading-cause-of-deaths-for-children-or-teens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As our friend and fellow 2A activist Miguel Gonzalez likes to say: \u201cIf your cause is just, why do you lie about it?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026you are told that firearms are the leading cause of death among children, and then find out that nineteen-year-old thugs killing each other in drug turf wars are considered by the source to be children. Here\u2019s a clue, Prohibitionists: If you are \u2013 Old enough to join the military without parental consent. Old enough to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7964","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\/7964","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=7964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7965,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7964\/revisions\/7965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}