Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Bashing?

Or simply telling it like it is? [Read]

Some Fairfax über alles apologists don't understand the difference.

The pistolero does, and tells it like it is.
Posted by David Codrea at 8/18/2010 11:16:00 AM

6 comments:

Pat H. said...

That pro-NRA post mentioned by Pistolero, looks an awful lot like what one Mike Haas used to post to several of the news groups way back when.

Now that he's been occupied running ammoguide.com, perhaps someone else has taken up the verbal cudgel on the Lairds of Fairfax behalf.

One wonders.

8/18/2010 1:57 PM
Defender said...

Your link to the Australia story is very appropriate. They obeyed the existing gun laws, like the NRA suggests. The result is, few to no legally-owned guns and yet a net increase in "gun crime."
We know it was never about crime.
Good thing THIS isn't Australia, or Canada. Or is it a good thing? A flat gun registration or turn-in mandate would finally pry most off their couches. That's why we probably will never see one.
Another reason is that we have the most registered gun OWNERS in history, via the NRA-backed instant check. It was their answer to a national waiting period.
As Jedd Clampitt used to say to Jethro, "Don't HELP me, boy."

8/18/2010 2:20 PM
Miguel said...

I ain't Hass... so stop wondering. You guys do need to start smelling conspiracies in every corner. Sometimes the rotten smell in Denmark is just old fish.

Funny, I keep searching the NRA PVF website for the NEW (there is one given in 2008) Chet Edwards endorsement and I can't find the darn thing. NRA-ILA has to brief mentions of him dating to 2009 but no endorsement.
Other that the Rumorsphere, I can't find anything NRA official. Perhpas anybody should offer a link from the NRA instead of

8/18/2010 2:32 PM
Pat H. said...

Well, "Miguel", you can research the information right there.

As a NRA lift member, I'll call the NRA on its bad policies anytime I want to do so.

Further, the NRA has a lot to atone for, it wrote the National Firearms Act of 1934, the Gun Control Act of 1968, the so-called Gun Owners Protection Act of 1986 which was yet another gun control law, and did nothing to stop the Assault Weapons Ban of 1994.

Last, the NRA has obstructed court cases dealing with the Second Amendment for decades; the two recent Supreme Court victories were accomplished OVER NRA road blocks every step of the way.

I know these facts, many others do as well.

Until the NRA acts responsibly and supports self defense rights EVERY time, all the time, we'll hold their feet to the fire.

Count on it.

8/18/2010 3:56 PM
David Codrea said...

Rumor:
1. talk or opinion widely disseminated with no discernible source
2. a statement or report current without known authority for its truth

Discernible sources/known authorities:
Chet Edwards website
Politico
The Texas Tribune
ABC News Channel 25
Kaelan Jones/NRA-ILA Grassroots Division: "Thank you for contacting NRA-ILA in regards to our endorsement of Chet Edwards."

A question to add to why this isn't on the PVF site would be why isn't NRA denying these reports?

Due diligence was done on this end. Why not do it on yours and share the results of your findings?

8/18/2010 4:01 PM
Defender said...

I was a life member of NRA too, paying in installments, until an honored politician guest at a Friends of NRA dinner was pointed out by an attendee as having voted FOR Virginia's one-gun-a-month gun owner registration program. They're also not good about answering letters or emails. There was some discussion this week about Sturm, Ruger & Co. not being the same company anymore that long-dead Bill Ruger ran, which supported the Clinton-magazine law. Well, today's NRA is not the 19th-century organization dedicated to firearm instruction and firearm FREEDOM.
No, they don't MAKE the laws, but they are the main conduit of information to people who vote single-issue for those who DO make the laws, and they could help put solidly pro-liberty candidates in office but don't. It cannot be denied that they compromise even when no compromise is asked for. I guess they never heard the saying that extremism in defense of liberty is no vice.
I don't argue with people who say the NRA is our best defense. I try to teach them some history, then I let it go, come here and read the government official atrocities of the day, let off some steam verbally and go to bed with my pistol in arm's reach.

8/19/2010 12:52 AM

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