{"id":9433,"date":"2026-10-16T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=9433"},"modified":"2026-10-07T16:48:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:48:44","slug":"they-call-him-saint-benitez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/they-call-him-saint-benitez\/","title":{"rendered":"THEY CALL HIM SAINT BENITEZ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now-retired Federal Judge Roger Benitez made so many pro-gun decisions that many in the gun owners\u2019 civil rights movement came to call him Saint Benitez.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the 2026 Gun Rights Policy Conference in Dallas last month, sponsored by the Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizens\u2019 Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms I got to meet this man and chat with him for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pay particular attention to his vignette about a friend of his who survived a horrendous attack because he had enough ammunition when he needed more than ten rounds to stop his vicious assailant. Pay attention also to his discussion of how the Bill of Rights was actually formulated.<br>You\u2019ll see why they call him Saint Benitez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>I also, of course, caught his 26-minute speech in person. You can catch it here:<\/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=\"GRPC 2026: Honorable Roger T  Benitez Keynote Speaker\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ne9pWUD5hS8?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><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">or watch <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ne9pWUD5hS8?si=p9tB4O0kVVhnzq52\">video here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now-retired Federal Judge Roger Benitez made so many pro-gun decisions that many in the gun owners\u2019 civil rights movement came to call him Saint Benitez. At the 2026 Gun Rights Policy Conference in Dallas last month, sponsored by the Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizens\u2019 Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9433","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=9433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9436,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9433\/revisions\/9436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}