GRE Round Up for June 14

Here are the latest Gun Rights Examiner posts:

Daniel White/Cleveland:

Restaurant Carry stalled as House prepares for summer recess

Senate Bill 239, which recently passed the Ohio Senate 23-10, has stalled until after the summer recess thanks to a...
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Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:

Concealed carry on public school property in Arkansas

Related articles: Legal concealed carry on Arkansas Campuses Arkansas students practice being killed As my last article showed, concealed carry on...
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John Longenecker/Los Angeles:

Safer Streets 2010: When will the republicans really listen?

We need to speak freely and be frank: when it comes to the Republicans' website America Speaking Out, the...
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Dave Workman/Seattle:

Bellevue’s Gottlieb at U.N. this week to protect American gun rights

Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Bellevue, WA-based Second Amendment Foundation and chairman of its sister...
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Kurt Hofmann/St.Louis:

Debunking the debunkers of gun law 'myths'

A recent piece in the Washington Post, by "gun control" advocates Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig, purports to debunk "Five myths about...
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While you're at it, be sure and check out these other liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Kent McManigal/Albuquerque Libertarian
• Kevin Wilmeth/Anchorage Libertarian
• Jesse Mathewson/Cochise County Libertarian
• Anthony Martin/Conservative

The Guy With the Gun

The 34-year-old man, who asked not to be named...

[H]e was known locally as "the guy with the gun." [More]

I wouldn't want to be ID'd either if I let something this embarrassing happen to me, but that doesn't convince me we're hearing the whole story here--or even a true one.

That there are those who would call for restricting rights based on an unproven anecdote about an unnamed individual who was doing who knows what when an unknown party did...what exactly can we prove, assuming there even was an unknown party that did anything...?

Some would have us believe this provides a blanket negation of open carry. And I don't see anyone questioning the account, even though the most remarkable thing about it is the lack of credible, verifiable details.

Maybe there was an open carrier who was oblivious and it happened just like he said. Then again, you couldn't prove it by me.

Or, it would seem, by anyone else.

Who's Pressing?

FAA Pressed to Allow Drone Flights in U.S.

Demand to Open Domestic Airspace to Pilotless Crafts Surges from Commercial, Law Enforcement Interests [More]

Yo, CBS/AP "Authorized Journalists":

Now the pressure's on...

The Federal Aviation Administration has been asked...

I can envision many legitimate uses. I can envision many scary ones.

It's the latter we need real names for.

Who is pressuring?

And why?

What Was Kagan's Role in Ruby Ridge Cover Up?

In releasing Kagan’s files Friday, the Clinton presidential library kept under wraps for now a five-page Justice Department memo on the coverup allegations. The memo was faxed to the White House in early September 1995.

Releasing it would disclose confidential advice involving the president and his advisers or between his advisers, according to a notice in the Kagan records explaining why the memo is being withheld from public view 15 years after the events. [More]

I see her role in helping squelch his perjury is also off limits.

I can't help but wonder if Team Obama nominated her to nullify any midterm challenge from Hillary by ensuring this stuff would be brought up for renewed controversy...

Can We Come Fully Dressed?

Come to democrat-supporting union halls?


Question: Seeing as how "Governor Strickland is a proven advocate who has protected the Second Amendment for all law-abiding gun-owners in Ohio," will it be a problem if we lawfully open carry?

The Voice of Authority

Authorities say it's a way to curb violence by getting guns off the street. [More]

That's "authority" as in "authoritah," not "authority" as in they know what the hell they're talking about and deserve earned respect for their proven expertise.

Injustice Everywhere

National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project [More]

This takes "The Only Ones Files" to the next level and then some.

I think we're going to need another apple barrel...

[Via Rodger M]

UPDATE: I thought this sounded familiar.

It's Ali-i-ive!

Danger on streets as guns proliferate...

The violence caused by those guns became evident... [More]

These must be the same guns that "go off."

National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC): "Etheridge Has Lost It"

I just received the following statement from National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) spokesman Jon Thompson regarding today's Gun Rights Examiner column about the violent anti-gun congressman:

Bob Etheridge has lost it. His conduct is unbecoming of a member of Congress. It's bad enough that he's joined Obama's assault on North Carolina jobs, but his physical assault on a college student goes beyond the pale.

I invite Mr. Thompson to encourage those within his fold to show us their stuff.

We're the Only Ones Reaping What We Sow Enough

Local law enforcement agencies on Friday were handed more than $3.2 million in cash and assets seized from a convicted Akron drug dealer and his associates. [More]

What on Earth could go wrong?

And this is just ingenious:

The Robinson investigation was aided by his defense attorney, Frank Pignatelli of Akron, who turned state's evidence on his clients after a raid of his home in 2005 at which more than $680,000 was uncovered.

You can't have this going on and freedom. You just can't.

Anti-Gun Congressman Attacks Student Interviewer

Etheridge displays the all-too typical attitude of a public "official" as opposed to a public servant. I can't help wondering if a belief that he can slap constituents around with impunity might be one of the reasons he's big on citizen disarmament, having been rated "F" by both the National Rifle Association and by Gun Owners of America. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column shows what happens when we don't accord proper deference to our masters.

Also see another challenge to the strategy of the political chess masters, and find out about a friend in need.

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This Day in History: June 14

Forty years ago, when the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia. [More]