{"id":33802,"date":"2013-01-25T06:19:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T10:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33802"},"modified":"2013-01-25T07:10:56","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T11:10:56","slug":"another-hothead-with-a-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33802","title":{"rendered":"Another &#8220;Hothead&#8221; With a Gun . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . uses it to stop a home invasion.\u00a0 And this &#8220;hothead&#8221; did it while in a wheelchair.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Sikes, an ex-Army MP who now uses a wheelchair, was at his home.\u00a0 He heard a noise from the vicinity of his front door.<\/p>\n<p>Then he saw an intruder in his hallway.<\/p>\n<p>Sikes reached over and took his 9mm pistol out of a nearby drawer.\u00a0 He raised it.<\/p>\n<p>The would-be burglar saw this and decided to &#8220;exit stage left&#8221; immediately.\u00a0 That was probably a good decision.\u00a0 Ex-MPs generally can hit a man-sized target at fairly close range.<\/p>\n<p>Sykes lives in Georgia.\u00a0 Just think how &#8220;wonderfully&#8221; this would have all turned out if Sykes had lived in NYC or Chicago &#8211; where legally owning a pistol is virtually impossible unless you&#8217;re a cop or have &#8220;connections&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . uses it to stop a home invasion.\u00a0 And this &#8220;hothead&#8221; did it while &hellip; <a title=\"Another &#8220;Hothead&#8221; With a Gun . . .\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33802\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another &#8220;Hothead&#8221; With a Gun . . .<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}