{"id":8472,"date":"2024-08-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8472"},"modified":"2024-08-04T16:14:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T20:14:03","slug":"an-anti-gunner-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/an-anti-gunner-speaks\/","title":{"rendered":"AN ANTI-GUNNER SPEAKS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Are you a law-abiding gun owner who may have low blood pressure? I have a cure you can find in a bookstore: \u201cWhat We\u2019ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms<\/a>\u201d by Jonathan M. Metzl.  It\u2019s sure to raise your blood pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metzl\u2019s belief system says (direct quote) \u201cI don\u2019t own a gun, and I hope I never need to.\u201d He doesn\u2019t seem to realize that if and when he ever does \u201cneed to\u201d it will probably be too late for him to get one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His statement is like saying \u201cI\u2019ll buy fire insurance after my house burns down.\u201d Things just don\u2019t work that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has heard the arguments of the pro-gun side, he just doesn\u2019t seem to understand them. He writes, \u201cA gun under the bed or in the glove box provides tangible reassurance in ways that policies warding off imagined negative events in the future, like cancer from cigarettes, diseases from sex, or potential accidents from cars, never can. Individual self-protection trumps aggregate communal data about gun injuries and deaths\u2014which in any case are seen by many gun owners as happening in the \u2018inner city\u2019 or somewhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is much truth in the above paragraph. Unfortunately, instead of recognizing the value of peace of mind in that \u201ctangible reassurance\u201d and the reality that a huge amount of gun violence victims are killed by gang-bangers  in \u201cgun control cities\u201d he sees that reassurance as somehow a bug instead of a feature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jonathan Metzl is obviously an intelligent man who has a way with words. But like so many on his side of this polarized debate, he seems to have committed himself to gun-banning with an almost religious zeal that gets in the way of his judgment and logic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book pivots upon, and constantly returns to, a multiple-victim shooting at a Waffle House in Nashville a few years ago. To be fair, Metzl scrupulously documents all the chances society had to stop this obvious whacko before he showed up at the killing ground nude except for a jacket and an AR15. We gun owners\u2019 civil rights advocates point out those exact same societal failures. Sadly, Metzl completely disregards the reality that if a single armed citizen had been present and seen the nude gunman with the AR in time, there would have been no innocent victims there that day at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Otherwise intelligent and logical people will continue to deny reality and to demand the disarming of the law-abiding, when they know or should know that those who by definition are lawbreakers will keep their deadly weapons, manufacture more they way they manufacture the most rigidly prohibited drugs, and will continue to violate the most stringent laws of both God and Man. Mr. Metzl\u2019s book is priced at $29.99<\/a> (on sale at Amazon right now for $19.96 E.P.<\/sub>) and, while raising your blood pressure, will also understand why advocates for the civil rights of law-abiding gun owners will continue to fight for those natural rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you a law-abiding gun owner who may have low blood pressure? I have a cure you can find in a bookstore: \u201cWhat We\u2019ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms\u201d by Jonathan M. Metzl.  It\u2019s sure to raise your blood pressure. Metzl\u2019s belief system says (direct quote) \u201cI don\u2019t own a gun, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8472","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\/8472","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=8472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8474,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8472\/revisions\/8474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}