{"id":3334,"date":"2012-04-28T02:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/04\/28\/massad-ayoob-on-stand-your-ground-laws\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:18:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:18:22","slug":"massad-ayoob-on-stand-your-ground-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3334","title":{"rendered":"Massad Ayoob On Stand Your Ground Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15873,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cato.org\\\/event.php?eventid=9141&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.cato.org\\\/event.php?eventid=9141&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Massad Ayoob was part of a panel discussion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/event.php?eventid=9141\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sponsored by the Cato Institute on Stand Your Ground laws<\/a> on Monday along with Clayton Cramer and Steven Jansen of the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys.<\/p>\n<p>Mas has served as an expert witness since 1979 in cases involving self-defense and is the author of the seminal work <i>In the Gravest Extreme<\/i>. He served for many years as a Captain in the Grantham, New Hampshire police department and is now a year-round resident of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone knows anything about self-defense, the legal use of lethal force, and justified shootings it is Massad Ayoob. So when he discusses Stand Your Group laws, I listen. I only wish all the professional agitators at the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (sic) would listen as well.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the presentation he gave as part of the Cato Institute&#8217;s panel discussion. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EsQeTKnD_f0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massad Ayoob was part of a panel discussion sponsored by the Cato Institute on Stand Your Ground laws on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2665,1572,2461],"class_list":["post-3334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cato-institute","tag-massad-ayoob","tag-stand-your-ground-laws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7941,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions\/7941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}