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Thursday, April 28, 2011
No Fool Like an Old Fool
Can't wait to get me one of those full-autos available without background checks!
A retired criminology professor has put out his own press release announcing his anti-gun blog. While there's nothing noteworthy about that, his hawking a self-published book caught my eye.
Go to the Amazon link and then click on the "Look Inside" option. If you read the first few pages, it's obvious he has a "gunman" shooting up a thinly-disguised NRA headquarters, replete with Wayne LaPierre clone "William LaPlante."
Naturally, the gunman sprays "automatic gunfire" from an AK-47, and naturally, the intrepid hero is an "Authorized Journalist" who asks LaPlante:
Now that you've seen first hand the terrible damage from assault rifles, aren't you willing to back legislation to ban them?"In other words, this author is either ignorant or a liar. And he published a book that's based on a demonstrably false premise.
Then there's this whole business about shooting up NRA HQ while innocents soil themselves--and the author justifies it using a hospital massacre to blame NRA, or what it ostensibly represents--you know, you and me.
Pretty warped fantasy, but pretty revealing about what makes this guy tick.
Say, do you think if I take his lead and write a similar fictitious piece about somebody violently raiding, say, Grady Campaign headquarters with a machete--to prove that if they'd had guns they could have repelled him--that it might get some folks upset? Not that I would. That doesn't have near the dramatic potential of taking a steamroller to one of those anti-gun "Lie-Ins"...
Hey, he started it...
Grassley urges citizens to call reps about 'Project Gunwalker' on Gun Talk Radio
Grassley gives an update on his efforts as well as those of Rep. Darrell Issa of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Explaining that his Senate Judiciary Committee powers to issue subpoenas are stymied due to Democrat control of the committee, Grassley informed Gresham’s audience he is working closely with Chairman Issa, who does have the subpoena powers to require information from those stonewalling at ATF and the Department of Justice. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes a politician trying to do the right thing and asks if each of us are doing what we can and should to support his efforts.
You could start by sharing this link--and then contacting your senators and representative and demanding they get behind Grassley's and Issa's "Gunwalker" investigations.
