{"id":808,"date":"2010-05-02T16:47:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T20:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/2010\/05\/02\/armed-citizens-in-the-news\/"},"modified":"2010-05-02T16:47:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T20:47:12","slug":"armed-citizens-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/armed-citizens-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMED CITIZENS IN THE NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armed citizens are much in the news of late.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/36795216\/ns\/world_news-washington_post\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Here<\/a>,\u00a0 we see Afghan civilians trained in marksmanship and patrol tactics by the US military routing Taliban terrorists from their villages.<\/p>\n<p>A short time-frame apart,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfnews13.com\/News\/Local\/2010\/4\/30\/bank_robbery_foiled_again_by_customer.html\" target=\"_blank\"> two separate bank robberies in Florida<\/a> are each foiled by armed citizens with concealed carry permits, and armed with their own handguns.<\/p>\n<p>In Omaha, Nebraska an armed robbery team comes out second to an armed citizen, who drew a Smith &amp; Wesson Military &amp; Police .40 pistol, killing a perpetrator armed with a sawed-off shotgun and capturing a second robber. As if to prove to the world the danger he faced, one of his bullets goes into the muzzle and down the barrel of the gunman\u2019s sawed-off. The prosecutor has already ruled the shooting justifiable, but the citizen, licensed to carry openly, is being accused of illegally carrying concealed. Local gun rights activists, notably <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nebraskafirearms.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nebraska Firearms Owners Association<\/a> , have rallied to his defense. Details on the shooting are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ketv.com\/news\/23275007\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.action3news.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=12386090\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, my favorite of the week, sent along by old friend Adam Kasanof, retired from NYPD where he spent much of his career with the Chief of Department\u2019s office. A gunfight survivor himself (off-duty encounter) Adam is one of the majority of cops who cheer when good guys and gals prevail against the bad guys. Officers in\u00a0Des Moines, Iowa where it happened apparently agree; after the shooting was over, they reloaded the delicate octogenarian\u2019s revolver for her. Gotta love it: see it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcci.com\/news\/23208133\/detail.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed citizens are much in the news of late. Here,\u00a0 we see Afghan civilians trained in marksmanship and patrol tactics by the US military routing Taliban terrorists from their villages. A short time-frame apart, two separate bank robberies in Florida are each foiled by armed citizens with concealed carry permits, and armed with their own [&hellip;]<\/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-808","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\/808","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=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/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=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}