GRE Round Up for Apr. 12

There's some good stuff being turned out. I hope you're availing yourself of it, and importantly, sharing these links via emails, on blogs and forums, with your local newspaper editor, etc.

A common complaint is media bias and absence of representation for "our side."

These people work hard to change that and ask for nothing from those of us their labors serve other than to help spread the word. I hope no one thinks that's too much to ask.

Here are their latest offerings:

Dan Bidstrup/Denver:
Violence Policy Center wants you to only see the trees, not the forest

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
Park Ranger addresses Knoxville TFA group

TN candidates respond to gun rights quiz - State Representative, 4th District - Jerome Cochran

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

Knob Creek, Kentucky machine gun shoot portrayed as racist, radical 'hate group' muster

The rise of Constitutional carry?

Go. Read. And please share these links.

You're doing that, right?

A Rare Opportunity

Edward M. Kennedy’s family will be given a rare opportunity to raise objections before the public disclosure of thousands of pages of the late Massachusetts senator’s exhaustive and secret FBI file, according to bureau officials and advisers to the family. [More]

Don't look so shocked. I'm sure if you were American royalty, you'd be extended the same consideration.

[Via Ed M]

We're the Only Ones...

...Helping You Turn Around Enough

...Growing Our Home-Based Business Enough

...NOT Going to the Dogs Enough

..."Restaurant Carrying" Enough

...Fabricating Enough

...Exhibiting Shocking Courtroom Behavior Enough

..."Thank Heaven for Little Girls" Enough

...Breaking Hearts Enough

...Ensuring Passenger Safety Enough

...A Ladies' Man Enough

[Via FFFW]

Waiting for the Punch Line

A bill slowly making its way through the state Legislature would make it legal for Wisconsin residents to use deadly force if necessary to protect their homes. [More]

What--you mean this isn't a joke?

Well, how about this part?

Marshfield Police Chief Gary Jepson said he agrees with the concept that a home is a person's castle but deadly force may not be necessary to protect it...

"The first line is the police and they will be the ones to sort out whether force is responsible or not."

So Do What I'd Do...

Firearms Industry Concerned Over United Nations Request for Firearms Trace Data [More]

Why not just tell them to go **** themselves?

We're the Only Ones Putting You in the Driver's Seat Enough

Manhunt is on for the bound suspect police say stole officer’s car and shotgun [More]

They're the "Only Ones" giving that incentive plus 0% financing!

[Via Lane]

Keeping Us Safe

In fact, more air marshals have been arrested than the number of people arrested by air marshals.

...They are averaging slightly over four arrests each year by the entire agency. In other words, we are spending approximately $200 million per arrest. Let me repeat that: we are spending approximately $200 million per arrest. [More]

I can't wait for them to keep us healthy.

We're the Only Ones Unflagged Enough

"Right now, we haven't seen any red flags. Not any red flags that the department would have known about," Kraus said. [More]

I can't help but wonder if that statement should cause additional concern.

[Via Ed M]

Potential Nominees

Running the gamut from Pure Evil to merely Corrupt Beyond Redemption... [Read]

[Via jpr9]

A Mayor's Aim

Mr Harvey is on the board of directors of Mayors for Peace 2020...[More]

This is the second satisfied New Zealand Rapex customer I've come across today. Kurt tells us about the first one.

I'm wondering what kind of "peace" Mayor Bob & Co. would be enjoying if, not that long ago, men with non-sporting arms hadn't been willing to risk and endure all to "run out" real "gunslingers". Yeah, I'll just bet they'd have a "Japanese sister city."

Keep up with that defenselessness crap and Bob et al. might just earn themselves a Chinese one...

No Second Chance

The police’s Phuti Setati said gun owners had more than enough time to do the right thing. [More]

I guess the right thing all depends on one's point of view..some might be inclined to look at the sorry mess you rulers and enforcers have created and decide to say "Phuki youti, Phuti."

I'm thinking if I were facing 25 years, that would in effect be a life sentence.

Truth be known, I'd rather die than submit to that.

And I'm wondering what the incentive is to give anyone trying to force you to any second chances...

Media Portrayal of Constitution Advocates as Haters Continues

That doesn't slow down Team Newsweek one bit. They have a meme to promulgate, and they dive into it like the skilled propagandists they are, evoking imagery from "Nazi garb" to "white robes" as a reaction to "the nation's first African-American president," and weaving all of that into the latest smear, that the upcoming Second Amendment March is being held to commemorate the Oklahoma City bombing or some such. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner notes the talking points are spreading and getting louder...

Help counter them by sharing the link?

This Day in History: April 12

April 12, 1778
Carlisle peace commission appointed to negotiate with the Continental Congress
William Eden, a career politician, George Johnstone, a naval officer and partisan for America, and Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle, are tasked in an attempt to prevent a Franco-American alliance from being created. Johnstone tries to bribe some Congressmen and Lafayette challenges Carlisle to a duel during this ill-fated British attempt to end hostilities. [More]