Gun rights groups are appealing a federal judge's decision to dismiss a lawsuit that sought to allow licensed gun owners to pack heat in parts of the world's busiest airport.
"Pack heat."
It sounds like something George Raft would say.
Does anybody know of one serious gun owner who uses that term? Why would a reporter use it and his editor allow it, unless they wanted to provoke an emotional reaction in the minds of their readers, and why would that be considered straight news?
The "Authorized Journalists" at the Associated Press really are fluid containers with hose and nozzle attachments.
That means you, Greg Bluestein.
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Only appears in 1930s gangster film dialogue and 21st-Century "news" articles. We gun ownaz iz all doze guyz wit da broken schnozzes and da pinstriped soots. Right, Boss? Where's yer fedora, ya mug?; yer breakin' da stereotype!
Packing heat: Shipping department at a habanero pepper cannery?
I do not "pack heat." I discretely arm myself so that I may adequately respond to sudden random violence. That doesn't fit into a headline, and it doesn't make me sound like an antisocial thug.
Obama is still threatening the Authorized Ones about broadcasting NRA commercials he says lie about his gun control record. And the media STILL don't see what's coming.
Tell dat woim,his uncle Roscoe will be looking for him, and when he finds him, he's gotta coupla things to say and then he's gonna give him a new pair o' cement overshoes. Me, I always liked the term, Uncle Frank.
"Pack heat" sounds very familiar. One of Ohio's Supreme Court Justices used the same phrase in a question during verbal arguments in the case of Ohioan's for Concealed Carry vs City of Clyde - in regard to whether the City of Clyde can prohibit guns in city parks. In the final ruling, state preemption was upheld, and Clyde lost the case.
That Justice thinks of parks as places where little kids play on swings, and nothing bad could ever occur.
During the time that the Justices were deliberating the case, one woman who was walking her dog was bludgeoned to death and another one was shot in the back, and is now paralyzed for life. Both incidents in local parks. Did that open his eyes? Of course not. Some people just refuse to see.
I wonder how he'll word it when the Federal Appeals court reverses?
"Does anybody know of one serious gun owner who uses that term?"
Yeah, David, I do. I don't want to name any names, but I could pee in his pants from where I'm sitting.
It was a quite common term in days gone by.
Story could/should be titled:
Packing Hot Air at the AP
Or maybe
Packing Yellow at the AP (Yellow Journalism and the Second Amendment)
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