GRE Round Up for Apr. 26

There's some good stuff being turned out by the Gun Rights Examiners. 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:

Anthony Bouchard/Cheyenne:
Police State legislation, S.3081 introduced by McCain and Scott Brown

Don Gwinn/Chicago:
IL gun control back on the move tomorrow?

Daniel White/Cleveland:
Keeping guns with permit holders keeps them away from criminals

Rob Reed/Detroit:
Gun owners meet in Westland for an open carry picnic

Dave Workman/Seattle:

They call it a ‘ruckus’ but it is a symptom of a plague

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

Illinois legislature to push for more gun laws after all?

Virginia school kids to learn about gun safety--opponents of gun safety object

Can gun rights advocates and marijuana advocates unite for state sovereignty?

Go. Read. And please share these links.

You're doing that, right?

We're the Only Ones 10-55 Enough

"Advise him that I have a trooper stopped. He is a captain with the Highway Patrol, and he is extremely 10-55."

The code 10-55, according to the report, indicates an intoxicated driver. No action was taken against the driver. [More]

No, of course not.

What do they call that?

Oh, yeah. "Professional courtesy."

"Only Ones"-style.

You don't have a problem with that, do you?

[Via Cocked and Loaded]

We're the Only Ones Simple as ABC Enough

The Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control offered a similar sentiment, noting that its store employees are trained to cooperate fully with robbers. [More]

Because not resisting evil makes us all safer!

Philip Bogenberger said it, I believe it, that settles it.

Yo, Phil, aside from being a parasite letter agency "spokesman," what are your qualifications for having an opinion on this again? Satisfied Rapex customer or what?

[Via Mack H]

Shopping with Guns

Yeah, obviously this guy Nik is some kind of weakling who fears the average man. And girlfriend Kim is compensating for something...but what?

Or might there be another explanation besides the one the seething antis would offer us, since they both actually look like very cool and together people to me...

Watch the video and decide for yourself.

[Via David R]

Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition

Imagine that: the government desiring, commanding that every able citizen own weapons and be skilled in using them! And to do so on “holy days” and at Church. [More]

Or we could just have collectivist clergy who espouse government-coerced "generosity" put up one of those "No Guns" signs...

[Via HZ]

Meanwhile, Over in Furious Mike Paradise

Dozens Ignored a Man Dying on a Sidewalk in Queens [More]

Looks like basic humanity, curiosity and initiative have been bred out of these control group subjects.

Time for the next phase of the social "experiment."

My only question: If you asked one of these herd animals their views on gun ownership, would they say "Baaaa" or "Mooo" in reply?

Agents of Incompetence

Vanderboegh links to the latest on the Great Airsoft Scare.

I was going to write about this in today's GRE as a follow-up to this, but figured today's tribute was the more important story. Perhaps tomorrow...

It's OUR Fault

Challenged by the gun - US gun industry fuelling Jamaica's murder rate but more assistance from the FBI and ATF could be coming [More]

Some will no doubt expect this to create a claim on your and my rights.

The Formula

Police said he was monitoring local agencies and had formulas for rifle scopes on a note in his cup holder. [More]

OK. And he was "nowhere near the president."

And the story doesn't mention him having a...you know, rifle. Just "a sidearm."

The charge?

"[G]oing armed in terror of the public"...?

I think we all need to learn a lot more. This certainly sounds odd, but it's not exactly like the "Authorized Journalists" have earned my automatic trust with their formula.

[Via Ed M]

Why Don't We Do It in the Road?

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie wants to shut the last two rest-stop bathrooms on non-toll roads in the most densely populated U.S. state after this year to save $270,000. [More]

What's the Nike slogan?

It's not like most will notice. The few remaining Liberty activists already know those who defecate on the Bill of Rights have turned a once lovely garden into a collectivist latrine.

An Admission of Failure

2 Chicago state reps: Bring in the National Guard [More]

Not just failure, but utter failure.

Daley, Weiss, all the king's horses and all the king's men--they are all powerless to stop the violence and protect lives and property. You know, provide the prime function for justifying paying their worthless asses in the first place.

Which means their interference with those who can stop the violence and protect on the individual level, which is where it happens, is criminal.

What evil damn frauds these gun grabbers are.

The solution from a couple of other nitwits, who have somehow come to the belief that their function is to rule?

Occupation.

Yeah, there's the way to live in the land of the free.

Forget it Jake, it's Chi-Town.

Anybody see a majority rule democracy way out of this one?

The Newsweek Challenge

The hatred of ATF, of course, is nothing new. [More]

More of the conflationist nonsense-with-a-purpose we've come to expect from Newsweek. How about instead of making their entire focus those who "hate" ATF, they use those journalist credentials and resources to look at just why that might be the case.

My comment:

Here's what's really "under the radar," and a typical example of how agenda-driven media statists have shed the time-honored role of journalist watchdogs over government to become its guard dogs instead: You Isikoff, and you Hosenball--why not investigate CleanUpATF.org, a website run by bureau whistleblowers detailing corruption and incompetence? Why the media blackout on insiders who are documenting abuses?

Why not look into their charges that "Managers, Counsel, Internal Affairs and staff of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (BATFE or 'ATF') have repeatedly given false testimony, concealed substantial waste, fraud and abuse, abused their lawful authority, and waged systematic campaigns of reprisal against their own employees that dare to speak out." ?

Or do you expect us to believe this is the first you six-figure (plus?) professionals with a huge news organization and research staff have heard of this?

While you're at it, tell us about the Good O' Boy Roundup. Then tell us why one of the foremost statisticians, Dr. Fritz Scheuren testified to a House committee that the NFRTR (firearms transfer record) "is insufficient for criminal proceedings" and then square that with former ATF NFA branch chief Thomas Busey claiming (on video) "Let me say that when we testify in court, we testify that the data base is 100 percent accurate. That's what we testify to, and we will always testify to that. As you probably well know, that may not be 100 percent true."

In short, how about some journalism from you highly-paid hacks instead of the shallow propaganda attacks conflating Americans who believe in the right to keep and bear arms with domestic terrorists that has become your trademark?

When they don't look into any of this, what will that tell us?

The entire fascist media alliance is pounding on that "patriots = haters" meme for all they're worth, like they want to use it to prime the American public for...what, exactly?

Our best defense against that is to go on the offense with the truth.

Armed Civil Rights Leader Hicks Dead at 81

What does that have to do with the right of the people to keep and bear arms? [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column explains.

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This Day in History: April 26

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