{"id":9170,"date":"2026-03-06T14:06:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=9170"},"modified":"2026-03-16T14:20:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:20:40","slug":"why-i-think-you-should-be-armed-in-the-great-outdoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/why-i-think-you-should-be-armed-in-the-great-outdoors\/","title":{"rendered":"WHY I THINK YOU SHOULD BE ARMED IN THE GREAT OUTDOORS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A feral human murders three innocent people. You\u2019d think a peaceful hiking path would be a safe place.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/06\/us-news\/iowa-man-ivan-miller-charged-in-utah-killings-wanted-victims-cars-and-money-to-get-home-prosecutors-allege\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">It ain\u2019t necessarily so<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We love the great outdoors. It\u2019s beautiful. It can also be dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bears. Feral dogs. Mountain lions. Moose, which can be mean as hell as well as big as hell. Venomous snakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, as here, venomous humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bring water. Bring a compass. Bring an IFAK (Individual First Aid Kit).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, for God\u2019s sake (or the sake of logic, for that matter) bring something more potent than bear spray to protect yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A feral human murders three innocent people. You\u2019d think a peaceful hiking path would be a safe place.\u00a0\u00a0It ain\u2019t necessarily so. We love the great outdoors. It\u2019s beautiful. It can also be dangerous. Bears. Feral dogs. Mountain lions. Moose, which can be mean as hell as well as big as hell. Venomous snakes. And, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9170","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\/9170","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=9170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9172,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170\/revisions\/9172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}