I\u2019ve long since made it clear that when I see \u201cgun-free zone\u201d I read \u201chunting preserve for psychopathic mass murderers,\u201d since only the law-abiding follow the rules and murderers are among the ultimate law-breakers. They seek victims who can\u2019t fight back. Jackals seek herds of sheep and conspicuously avoid prides of lions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A man I\u2019m proud to call a long-time friend, Dave Workman, is one of our strongest and most practical voices for reason in the gun debate. He points out that gun-free zones, which require law-abiding pistol-packers to leave their firearms in their cars, create a situation which facilitates gun theft \u2013 the single main source of guns in the hands of criminals. Read it here<\/a>. Courtesy of GUNS magazine, for which both Dave and I are long-standing contributors, and please share the link as widely as you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve long since made it clear that when I see \u201cgun-free zone\u201d I read \u201chunting preserve for psychopathic mass murderers,\u201d since only the law-abiding follow the rules and murderers are among the ultimate law-breakers. They seek victims who can\u2019t fight back. Jackals seek herds of sheep and conspicuously avoid prides of lions. A man I\u2019m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8919","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\/8919","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=8919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8926,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8919\/revisions\/8926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}