GRE Round Up for August 4

Here's the latest from my Gun Rights Examiner colleagues--please note I'm not linking you to everything they posted during my hiatus, only their last offering, so check their main pages for columns they may have written during my absence:

Anthony Bouchard/Cheyenne:

Matt Mead for governor, the next liberal champion to be adored by the media

"The media that loves Obama is now falling all over Matt Mead"... A surprise? NOT SO MUCH. Along with all the Casper Star Tribune praise...Keep Reading »

Dan Bidstrup/Denver:

Facing facts

Last month I gave out a vehicle for engaging business owners who prohibit guns in their establishments. It consisted of a cover letter asking for...Keep Reading »

Sean McClanahan/Des Moines:

Upcoming gun shows in Iowa for 2010

There are several opportunities in the coming months for Iowans to visit a gun show and exploit the non-existent “Gun Show Loophole.” In...Keep Reading »

Rob Reed/Detroit:

The myth of the mandatory 'CPL renewal' class

One of the biggest myths concerning Michigan's Concealed Pistol License law is the belief that Michigan...
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Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:

Law enforcement influencing open carry legislation

The Arkansas Municipal Police Association’s annual convention begins today in Texarkana, lasting until Friday, August 6. During this convention,...Keep Reading »

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:

More home invasions, Part 5 - is there an epidemic?

It seems there continues to be reason to comment on home invasions. This time, I will mention two reported in the...Keep Reading »

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:

Safer Streets 2010: Author Sonia Wolff's Gun Essay, Part II.

Where we last left off in praising Sonia's effort in Part I, I was talking about how gun ownership does not change...Keep Reading »

Dave Workman/Seattle:

Lead ammo ban sought from EPA threatens gun owners, game agencies, say critics

On Tuesday, a coalition of environmental groups petitioned with the Environmental Protection Agency asking that...Keep Reading »

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While you're at it, be sure and check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

That Must Be the Reason

See, it's not because someone who would do such a heinous thing is an @$$hole--it's because everybody else is a racist. [Read]

Does this mean we can't blame the rampage on "hatriot" speech?

Environmental Impact

Authorities identified the third victim of a bear attack in a campground near Yellowstone National Park as a 21-year-old man from Colorado. [More]

Does Colleen Kollar-Kotelly know about this?

Doesn't somebody need to do a study first or something...?

[Via Ed M]

Passing the Ohio Bar

Akron police are looking for a man who robbed a Newton Street bar and pistol-whipped several patrons just after midnight Tuesday. [More]

What the...???

Somebody should have told this ignoramus that guns in bars are, as yet, still illegal in Ohio.

Too bad Jackie-boy the manly-man wasn't there to put the perp's face on the pavement.

A Matter of Perspective

Should Gun Safety Be Taught in Schools? Perspectives of Teachers [More]

The only ones who would answer "No" are unqualified to teach it.

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Help.

Journalists continue spreading VPC's 'machine gun' confusion

Anyone with basic knowledge of the issue would suspect the gun in question was really a semi-auto, as opposed to a submachine gun and that the staff writer simply doesn't know the difference. And that's just what the Violence Policy Center wants them to think... [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at an old trick that still works on the self-styled "opinion-making class." The bottom line is, they're either ignorant, in which case they're engaging in journalistic malpractice, or they're evil, willfully propagating lies to advance a statist agenda.

Also tune in to today's Trigger Sports Live! and check out how few "free state" political opportunists are willing to take a stand on the Second Amendment.

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This Day in History: August 4

August 4, 1778 - Continental soldiers and 34 men of the Wyoming Independent Company, under the command of Colonel Zebulon Butler, march into Wyoming Valley and establish "Camp Westmoreland" at Wilkes-Barre. [More]