The paradox and unintended consequence for the gun banners is, the more they make owning a gun difficult, the more innovative and unregulated the market becomes. They create conditions where the real world outcome is exactly the opposite of what they say they want. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at a Great Wall--one where the best gun deals in town are offered.
Also read my GUNS Magazine recap of McDonald and find out who's ratting out who today on Trigger Sports Live!
NOTE: As many of you have noted, Examiner.com is screwed up nine ways from Sunday with their site "upgrade." I published this over four hours ago and it still is not showing up on my main page. Also, I am aware that some of the embedded links don't work--their publishing tool added an extra "http"--I corrected it in draft form two hours ago when I noticed, but those changes still have not migrated to the live page.
I've been getting quite a few emails on this--subscriptions route readers to error pages, innocuous comments get rejected by a profanity filter on the fritz, etc., etc.
You should see things from my end. We content providers are spitting mad. I've personally filled out at least four tech support tickets and have identified literally dozens of new foul-ups this ill-designed and handled "upgrade" has caused--from things that deeply impact my ability to do basic formatting to outrageous disconnects that seem designed to drive away old readers and make it more difficult to attract new ones.
On that note, I've gotten a few emails from the former who say they will no longer be reading because of this, or forwarding links, as I always ask regular readers to do.
If I could wave a magic wand and make things different I would, but I can't--so I'm forced to either fight on the terrain I find myself in--or give up and retreat.
Hopefully things will smooth out soon. Please be patient, and above all, please have mercy on me--I already get over a hundred emails a day and can do nothing about tech issues. Matter of fact, I'd consider it a favor if you would contact them instead.
Don't be gentle. I haven't been.
2 comments:
David, I haven't bothered you with lists of frustrating Examiner issues because I know you're darned well aware of them. I won't stop reading your column just because the Examiner admins are incompetent idiots, but if you migrated the "examiner' column to a new host, I'd follow and never look back.
On another subject: One of the NH US House candidates who wouldn't answer the GRQ was asked in a debate why she wouldn't answer. She claimed she'd never heard of it. This was Horn, whose campaign manager contacted me regarding the GRQ. I'm a-thinkin' this isn't gonna help her much. (She tried to make a big deal of getting an A rating from the NRA a couple years back. As if that means anything worthwhile.)
I'm sorry to hear that some of your readers are so short-sighted that they blame you for the misadventures of someone else.
The work (and it sure is work!) that you're doing is magnificent and extremely useful for helping others to wake up to reality instead of living under a fog of assumptions as most people do their whole lives.
Hang in there!
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