Talkin' to America interviewed owner Ryan Horsley in May, shortly after Red's won an injunction to keep their business running ( www.jpfo.org/alert20070503.htm ). Now we follow up with another interview to learn what has happened since. The interview is available for download in MP3 format at www.jpfo.org/talkamerica.htm , with a transcript expected next week.
Saturday, August 18, 2007
JPFO's Follow-up Interview with Red's Trading Post
Red's and Others to Offer Aug. 28 Ammo Discounts
We will be offering ammunition at a discounted rate that day. Anyone buying 5 boxes or more of ammo (22 LR is excluded) will receive a copy of the JPFO Documentary The Gang.
That's great, Ryan--thank you.
And there's more:
A Keyboard and a .45 says Dallas Tactical Supplies will offer "FREE shipping and handling on all holsters purchased on August 28th. Just mention National Exercise Your Rights Day in the comments section of the online order form."
Captain of a Crew of One has recruited two Norfok, VA participants: Bob's Gun Shop ("offering 10% off on accessories and gun safes to anyone who mentions National Exercise Your Rights Day") and Shooter's Inc. ("offering free range passes to the first ten people who mention National Exercise Your Rights Day").
This is a good start--please keep the momentum going by emailing your gun-owning friends, informing your gun clubs and organizations, asking bloggers you frequent to mention this, and ESPECIALLY by contacting gun shops and shooting ranges you patronize and asking them to come on board.
Please keep me informed of any more businesses that agree to participate and I'll give them a plug. One caveat: please include contact info for that business so I can verify if needed. We don't need some mole signing up businesses for an event they're not even aware of as a way of sabotaging this.
Meanwhile, thank you to all the blogs, forums and websites that have mentioned this so far. I'd like to put together an "Honor Roll" to include everyone who takes part in this, but am actually hoping the list will grow so big that I won't be able to keep up with it.
UPDATE from KABA Newslinks Comments:
I work at Panther City Firearms in Ft Worth Texas and have the Aug 12th Fort worth Star Telegram posted in our shop. Aug 28 needs to be a nation wide message to our so called leaders in Congress. So ask for Darrell and mention this site I will discount my AR-15s,30 rd mags and ammo all day Aug 28, 9am till 6. Call me at 817-731-2065. God Bless and Happy shooting.
We're the Only Ones Breaking Down Enough
They saw a rifle in the back seat of Venable's car and Snow attempted to take it apart, Miller said. That's when the gun went off, he said.
All by its own self, no doubt.
Why the hell was this boob trying to take apart a rifle he obviously knew nothing about?
And naturally, it was the citizen who was cited.
Here's a question for all of you who aren't "Only Ones": What's the first rule of field-stripping a firearm?
That's right--point it at someone with your finger on the trigger!
And what's the first rule for when you're not certain of how an unfamiliar firearm operates?
Bingo! Pick it up and start dicking around with it.
[Via RuffRidr]
The Cult of the Elite
This book, which grew out of a controversial essay published last year by The Weekly Standard, is a shrewdly argued jeremiad against the digerati effort to dethrone cultural and political gatekeepers and replace experts with the “wisdom of the crowd.”
...Whereas historians and journalists traditionally strived to deliver the best available truth possible, many bloggers revel in their own subjectivity...
This guy manages to combine two of my favorite categories, "We're the Only Ones" and "authorized journalists," into one obnoxious and elitist screed.
The purpose, Mr. Keen, of having "political gatekeepers" is to keep out those you wish to exclude. We've had enough of media bias and "historians" bent on changing the past to suit a present agenda.
Revolutions tend to get a bit messy, a lesson the elites never seem to learn as they continue to prod and provoke. The demand for a new type of information has been created because your elite stewards have done such a miserable job with the trust they were given, Mr. Keen.
If you think blogs are propaganda vehicles, you ought to take a look at some of the pamphlets produced by "rabble" from our Founding Era. And as for "informed debate becoming more difficult," I'll put this one-man-operation blog up against the mighty New York Times any day of the week when it comes to providing both broad and in-depth accurate coverage of what's really happening on the RKBA scene--even with my obvious predispositions.
Does that mean there's not a lot of amateurish junk out there in "Web 2.0"? Of course there is, but guess what--the people who take it upon themselves to get and stay informed develop pretty good instincts when it comes to divining the truth of things. And working in real time, without a net, can be a pretty unforgiving environment for anyone discovered propagating falsehoods or unreliable information. Reputation is everything, and the type of readers I get aren't too inclined to forgive someone they've caught trying to play them--because they expect the same standards they hold themselves to. And it's not like your precious gatekeepers don't put out a lot of trash for the masses.
Ultimately though, it boils down to this is "costing us a fortune," doesn't it? Hey, what can I say? The environment changes--it's been doing that since the Dawn of Time. Adapt or die out.
Keen is keen on oligarchy, that principle of rule that has produced such misery throughout the ages. He doesn't get that our system is supposed to be one of self government--he doesn't trust that we are wise or capable or competent enough to be given free choices--which is really what the struggle for liberty is all about. He evidently believes our only real purpose is to feed the beast, that is, to assume our traditional role of serfs under the benign rule of philosopher kings.
We threw that yoke off once and may be on the cusp of doing it again. And that scares the hell out of certain people like Mr. Keen--and those he speaks for--who are starting to sense the winds of change.
[Via D.W. Lawson]
