{"id":8773,"date":"2025-04-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8773"},"modified":"2025-04-23T17:37:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T21:37:35","slug":"goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/goal\/","title":{"rendered":"GOAL!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GOAL<\/a>, the Gun Owners Action League of Massachusetts, has been one of the most tireless and determined grassroots firearms owners civil rights organizations in the country for a very long time. Earlier this month, they celebrated the anniversary of \u201cthe shot heard round the world\u201d that was the genesis of the Colonies becoming The Cradle of Liberty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adam Kraut, executive director of the Second Amendment Foundation, was one of the many civil rights warriors present.\u00a0 I had to be teaching elsewhere, but thanks to the magic of electronics GOAL\u2019s KerrieAnn Auclair made it possible for me to narrate the stirring opening written by Garet Holcomb, president of GOAL\u2019s board.\u00a0 If you have a minute or two, you can catch it here:\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Battle Continues\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u9YxjgXZz6U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>or watch <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/u9YxjgXZz6U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video here<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As president of the Second Amendment Foundation I urge everyone to belong to not just SAF (saf.org) but their own state\u2019s grassroots 2A organization.&nbsp; Their work is critical to our freedom. My hat is off to GOAL, because in the Massachusetts of today they are fighting an uphill battle. The Minutemen must lie uneasy in their graves for what the Bay State has become in this respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOAL, the Gun Owners Action League of Massachusetts, has been one of the most tireless and determined grassroots firearms owners civil rights organizations in the country for a very long time. Earlier this month, they celebrated the anniversary of \u201cthe shot heard round the world\u201d that was the genesis of the Colonies becoming The Cradle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8773","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\/8773","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=8773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8774,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8773\/revisions\/8774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}