GRE Round Up, Apr. 30

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:

Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:
The lies against open carry in Oklahoma

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
Unconstitutionally vague.....unintended consequences!

David Codrea/National:
Does Lindsay Lohan gun photo show violation of federal law?

Chris Woodard/Tucson:
It's official. July 29, 2010

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If illegal aliens are 'undocumented workers,' shouldn't 'illegal guns' be 'undocumented firearms'?

No--"illegal guns" are simply guns that are illegally owned, by virtue of either the owner being a "prohibited person," or a lack of the required paperwork (for jurisdictions that require such things). The interesting thing about that is that many of the same people who claim only to be against "illegal guns," rather than against the Second Amendment, claim that proponents of tough immigration law enforcement are "anti-immigrant." In fact, if one looks through the list of cities that MAIG claims as members, and compare that to a list of "sanctuary cities," where city employees are instructed not to cooperate with federal enforcement of immigration laws, one will find quite a lot of overlap. [More]

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GRE Round Up, Apr. 29

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:

Dan Bidstrup/Denver:
Updates on Philippine elections and Denver gun show shooting last March

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:
Safer Streets 2010: Invigorating the electorate via college students.

John Pierce/Minneapolis:
The man who single-handedly scuttled voting rights for DC

David Codrea/National:
Nevada District 1 Congressional candidates answer gun rights questionnaire

Dave Workman/Seattle:
SPD chief candidate interviews slated May 8; please answer the following

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Current D.C. law allows effective self-defense in the home--unless you have kids

In other words, you don't have to render your lifesaving firepower useless for immediate use (and when you need to use a firearm, you generally need it immediately)--as long as you're childless Well, actually, that wouldn't be good enough, either, because if a visiting minor can get access to the gun, you're still in trouble.

In still other words, the only people imposed upon by such restrictions on effective defense are the very ones with the most to defend (because what can be more worth defending than one's children?). [More]

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GRE Round Up, Apr. 28

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:

Dan Bidstrup/Denver:
Answering a college student about guns on campus

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:
Safer Streets 2010: More statist hate for America

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Bill introduced to fix gun laws in ‘the other’ Washington; Daley wants to sue gun makers

David Codrea/National:
OK senator calls governor's reasons for vetoing Firearms Freedom Act 'absurd'

Daley's hatred for right to keep and bear arms takes dangerous globalist turn

Chris Woodard/Tucson:
With the signing of the new immigration law in Arizona, what has actually changed?

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Gun rights bills, without D.C. voting rights language, introduced in Congress

The Brady Campaign called that a "victory," but so did I--chiefly because of the unconstitutionality of the voting rights language, but also because (as D.C.'s non-voting Delegate Eleanor Homes Norton warned), there's a decent chance of passing a gun rights bill without surrendering the Constitutional high ground. [More]

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GRE Round Up, Apr. 27

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:
Anti-Gun Mayor Bloomberg never leaves home without his guns

Senator Burns disputes Tea Party claims on his voting record

Take your gun to church?

Daniel White/Cleveland:
Gun laws aren't the answer, they're the problem

Rob Reed/Detroit:
The readers speak and the Detroit Gun Rights Examiner listens

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
Guns in Knoxville Starbucks?

David Codrea/National:
Why is ATF ducking freedom of information response on toy guns?

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Will Everett jury’s verdict in Meade case change how we look at lethal self-defense?

Chris Woodard/Tucson:
NRA sits out gunfight with feds yet again.

Has Obama finally taken notice?

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Does 'gun free' Chicago need the National Guard?

There is some speculation--not without merit--that this whole call to bring in the Guard is nothing more than a bit of political theater, designed to put pressure on legislators to advance the package of "gun control" bills we discussed Saturday. That strikes me as entirely plausible, given the legislative history of the two representatives who suggested the idea.

Representative Ford, in particular, comes to mind, in light of a shameful episode I documented two years ago, in which he basically admitted that the bill he supported (which was that year's version of HB 5480, the private sale ban) would violate the Second Amendment, but he was voting for it anyway, because many other bills he supported were being voted down. Here's an excerpt (the whole thing can be heard here, in MP3 format) [More]

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GRE Round Up, 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

David Codrea/National:
Is Richard Clarke just ignorant or worse about what gun rallies commemorated?

Armed defense stories continue to demonstrate protective benefits of guns

Armed civil rights leader Hicks dead at 81

Dave Workman/Seattle:
They call it a ‘ruckus’ but it is a symptom of a plague

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

In the end, it is vital that we realize that state sovereignty is not a "conservative" issue, and nor is the right to possess the means to defend one's family, life, home, and liberty. Likewise, the right to choose what one puts into one's own body is not a "liberal" issue, even for those of us who would never choose to use substances which are banned or heavily regulated now. If the federal leviathan succeeds in keeping us divided, our piecemeal efforts to regain our rights will be easily turned back. [More]

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

Opponents of gun safety education would prefer to indulge their irrational fears than to allow children to be provided with the knowledge to keep them safe. "Anti-gun" does not describe such people as well as "anti-safety" does. [More]

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Illinois legislature to push for more gun laws after all?

Still, there are no guarantees--deadlines can be extended at the whim of the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate (Michael Madigan and John Cullerton, respectively--both rabidly anti-gun Chicago Democrats). The NRA believes that just such shenanigans may be afoot. [More]

That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. I hate to beg (ah, what the hell--I'm not proud), but visits (diggs?) and telling a friend will be much appreciated.

GRE Round Up, Apr. 23

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:

Paul Valone/Charlotte:
Gun vote 2010: Find out which candidates support your rights

Dan Bidstrup/Denver:
Are gun rights advocates seditious?

Rob Reed/Detroit:
Detroit Gun Rights Examiner gets it wrong - And Westland PD corrects the mistake

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
Restaurant carry redo moves slowly in Tennessee Legislature

David Codrea/National:
Another successful armed defense by senior shows life-saving benefits of guns

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Saturday rally coming together; Starbucks profits deflate Brady paranoia


Chris Woodard/Tucson:
HB 2441 - The Presidential Candidate; Proof of Eligibility.

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St. Peters, MO city buildings to remain 'gun free'

Kirkwood had trained security professionals, too (two police officers were among the dead). I don't know if there were metal detectors, but it wouldn't have mattered if there had been, becaise the killer started his rampage in the parking lot The problem lay not in not knowing that he was armed, but in having no better means of stopping him than by throwing things. [More]

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GRE Round Up, Apr. 22

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:
City of Sheridan hires a police chief from Detroit that breaks the law and misplaces his gun

Sheridan Police harass gun rights activist, terrorize his family during swat style confrontation

Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:
The year of the Second Amendment

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:
Safer Streets 2010: American Militias, Part V.

David Codrea/National:
April 19 a day to fly flag proudly

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Sno County Council gets it right 'sorta'; Seattle judges have it wrong

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Editorial continues 'sedition' theme, along with a good dose of race baiting

As I said Monday, by presenting peaceful dissent (even the Brady Campaign's Paul Helmke described the activists as "polite") as "sedition," those who wish to silence that dissent are playing a very dangerous game. The guarantee of the freedoms protected by the First Amendment is enforced by the freedoms protected by the Second. No one wants to see it come to that [More]

That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. A visit (a digg?), and a word to your friends will be much appreciated.

GRE Round Up, Apr. 21

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:

Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:
Local emergency gun control

Home invasion; cop or not?

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
Parkwest Hospital murder - suicide

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:
Safer Streets 2010: Smear answered by Senator Randy Brogdon.

Safer Streets 2010: Informed streets have to come first.

David Codrea/National:
NRA sidelined on Firearms Freedom Acts

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Gun Rights 101: AZ governor signs ‘carry without a permit’ law; why that matters here


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D.C. 'voting rights' bill dead (again), but gun rights shouldn't share that fate

Well, if the Brady Campaign wants to claim credit for a defeating a bill that was on the fast track until Congressional gun rights supporters managed to make it even more pro-gun, that's fine.

The new, even more pro-gun, amendment was written by Congressmen Travis Childers (D-MS) and Mark Souder (R-IN), and they vow to do what Del. Norton feared--reintroduce gun rights language either as a stand-alone bill, or attached to some other bill. [More]

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GRE Round Up, Apr. 20

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:

Ed Stone/Atlanta:
This day in history

GA Bills: SB 308 Update

Howard Nemerov/Austin:
Women on Target comes to Austin area

Paul Valone/Charlotte:
Was the Second Amendment March a success?

Anthony Bouchard/Cheyenne:
IRS purchases firearms and uses them for government greed

Dan Bidstrup/Denver:
Colorado State University gun ban isn't settled yet

Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:
Message to tourists with guns; don't come to Arkansas

Local emergency gun control

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
Demilitarized Brass - part deux

TN candidates respond to gun rights quiz - Governor - Haslam

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:
Safer Streets 2010: Not with the L.A. Times' help.

Safer Streets 2010: Attention Kalifornia State Legislature.

John Pierce/Minneapolis:
The Obama Administration Year One: The flight from gun control

David Codrea/National:
What do books, wolves and someone thinking I got something right have in common?

Oath-breaking Clinton adopts 'hatriot' slur

Armed citizens prove protective benefits of guns

Peaceful pro-gun rallies: A firsthand account

Dave Workman/Seattle:
King County Sheriff warns of cutbacks, so go out and buy a gun

2A rallies from one Washington to the ‘other’ suggest gun owners are growing restless

Chris Woodard/Tucson:
Opposition to Arizona Constitutional Carry law from surprising sources

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Accusations of 'sedition' are an attack on freedom

That sounds a whole lot like taking the jury box away, too. Attack the soap box--check. Attack the ballot box--check. Attack the jury box--check. It's almost as if there's an element of the American Left that's bound and determined to reduce a great many Americans to that last box.

That's a very bad idea. [More]

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'Gun show loophole' myth getting another push

Finally, when anti-gun people speak of the "gun show loophole," what they really mean is "private sales loophole." Once they ban private sales at gun shows, they'll come after them everywhere else. Illinois is a case in point. The so-called "loophole" was closed there in 2005, but they've been trying to ban every other private sale ever since, with the Illinois Council to Prevent Gun Violence (ICPGV) listing that as their highest priority.

Closing the "gun show loophole," despite the insignificance of gun shows as a source of "gun violence," seems to be what the gun-haters have identified as the low-hanging fruit. [More]

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Former President Clinton equates loyalty to Constitution with 'hatred'

In other words, this is another group that is not about "hate," and certainly not about terrorism or racism--but simply about defending rights. Wednesday, we talked about the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence referring to gun rights advocacy as "a threat to the rule of law." Yesterday, it was the VPC, blaming the airing of concerns about a politician's anti-gun agenda, for the violent acts of psychopaths.

It's certainly easy to be labelled a "hater," or at least an incitement to hate, these days. I wonder, in fact, if by the standards of today's Zeitgeist, there is anyone who is not a potential extremist, subject to suspicion. [More]

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Does the VPC wish to stifle political dissent?

In other words, it appears that the VPC would like to remove a politician's (or political candidate's) legislative history, publicly stated positions, and political allies as topics of legitimate political discussion, because the "paranoid language" of that kind of "anti-government rhetoric" might "cause" a mentally unabalanced person to act . . . like a mentally unbalanced person. [More]

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GRE Round Up, Apr. 16

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:
Attending the Denver Tea Party

David Codrea/National:
Why not try a 'pro-gun' self-defense TV show?

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Is Congress trying to put the President and other dignitaries at risk?

Wow--pretty spooky stuff. Well, spooky, at least, to those who think that would-be assassins have been foiled until now in their dastardly plans to shoot up presidential motorcades only by the laws against bringing the preferred types of rifles for that kind of thing into the city.

Suddenly, though, that's not a concern? Hmm--if I were the suspicious type, I might suspect that it was never a serious concern, and that it was brought up last year simply as part of the forcible citizen disarmament lobby's strategy of hysterical fear mongering. [More]

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GRE Round Up, Apr. 15

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:

Ed Stone/Atlanta:
Emory Police Chief tells committee that armed students are a danger during a mass shooting

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
TN candidates respond to gun rights quiz - Knox County Commission District 9 - Paul Pinkston

David Codrea/National:
Jury finds FBI's Shipley guilty on gun charges

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Washington D.C. gun compromise not good for gun rights or Constitution

Also, to sweeten the pot for congressional Republicans, the bill would compensate for adding a voting representative elected in Democrat-heavy Washington D.C., by also providing an additional congressman in Republican-heavy Utah. That, however, is not likely to last long, because that congressional seat's location will be determined anew after the census. It could easily, in other words, end up in another Democrat-heavy voting area [More]

Today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Visits, diggs, and spreading the word are all appreciated.

GRE Round Up, Apr. 14

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:

Howard Nemerov/Austin:
Concealed carry class sponsored by UT Students for Concealed Carry

Daniel White/Cleveland:
Taxing away your civil rights

Dan Bidstrup/Denver:
Philippine gun ban experiment fails

David Codrea:
Police gun lock program no substitute for knowledge

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Vitriol approaching fever pitch as 2A march looms

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If 2nd Amendment rallies are 'threat to the rule of law,' then 'rule of law' needs threatening

In other words, from the Second Amendment's right of the people to keep and bear arms as being that which shall not be infringed, Horwitz has somehow gone to insisting on no "infringement" on the government's ability to oppress--and kill--the people with no fear of effective resistance.

To Horwitz, apparently, that would be "the rule of law" in action. If so, I repeat the assertion in today's title--such a "rule of law" needs to be threatened, and indeed openly defied and defeated. [More]

That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. A read (and a digg?) and a word to your friends will, as always, be greatly appreciated.

GRE Round Up, Apr. 13

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:

Ed Stone/Atlanta:
Rockdale County bans guns over terrorism fears

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
TN candidates respond to gun rights quiz - Knox County Commission District 7 - R. Larry Smith

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:
Safer Streets 2010: American Militias, Part IV.

David Codrea/National:
Gun ban group lies about...me (Must read, which applies to pretty much everything David writes, but this more than most, in my view)

Dave Workman/Seattle:
2A marchers will probably be demonized regardless of conduct

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Oklahoma mulls reviving state militia concept

I can't help but be struck by the irony of those who claim that the Second Amendment provides no protection of an individual right to keep and bear arms, because of the clause about "a well regulated militia" (even Heller's finding that the right to own firearms is not contingent on militia membership has not stopped such claims). Many of these same people, though, when anyone starts talking about forming a militia, become panicky about "terrorism." [More]

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GRE Round Up, 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

David Codrea/National:
Professionals advise 'Arm yourself'

Media portrayal of Constitution advocates as haters continues

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The rise of Constitutional carry?

As long as we treat the right to keep and bear arms as a government-issued privilege, rather than a Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual, we have little room to complain about the government doing the same. [More]

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

Last week, we looked at an author's description of Tea Party activists as "stupid people with guns." I can't argue with the frequent claims these days about the rise of political hatred in the U.S. I only differ in my determination of who is doing the hating. [More]

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GRE Round Up, Apr. 10

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:

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:
Safer Streets 2010: The second amendment as a 2010 stumping issue, Part II.

David Codrea/National:
South African police disarming citizens as their need for protection grows

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How Justice Stevens' retirement might benefit gun rights

A bitter, hard-fought Supreme Court nomination battle, heading into mid-term elections, puts a big item right up near the top of that list, moving any potential efforts for more "gun control" back down. Any speed-bumps that can be placed in the path of efforts to advance the forcible citizen disarmament agenda are good for the country. [More]

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GRE Round Up, Apr. 9

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:

David Codrea/National:
Gun owners can build bridges with medical community

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Best friend an armed citizen has is his armed neighbor
EXTRA! Say goodbye to Stevens, say ‘hello’ to more armed citizens in WA

Chris Woodard/Tucson:
Arizona now joins the ranks of Vermont and Alaska.

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Illinois Department of Corrections buying ammo on (not very good) credit

Let's see--761,000 rounds, divided by 600 rounds per trainee, comes to about 1268 new prison guards. Wonder what the plan is for all of them? Not that I would expect the government to be preparing for mass internments, or anything. [More]

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GRE Round Up, Apr. 8

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:

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
Demilitarized Brass

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:
Safer Streets 2010: The second amendment as a 2010 stumping issue, Part I.

David Codrea/National:
Medical establishment hostility to guns is long-standing and pervasive

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About yesterday's St. Louis GRE article

Longtime correspondent Straightarrow, in response, I assume, to yesterday's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner article about William Rivers Pitt's "Stupid People with Guns," told me of an old joke. It's both very politically incorrect, and extremely pertinent to the subject at hand. For those offended by use of a certain (admittedly offensive) word, my apologies--but the offensiveness is kinda the point:

There's an old joke about a literacy test being given in one of our less racially tolerant states years and years ago. It goes like this " The polling place referees when faced with a black man or woman who wished to vote would tell then that there was a literacy test that was required before anyone could vote. One particular black gentlemen said "I don't mind a literacy test, I can read and write." Then the chief examiner handed him a copy of a Chinese newspaper, the Canton Golden Times, and told him to read it if he was literate.

The man looked at it, and said, "No problem, I can read that headline quite well." The examiner was stunned. He said "What? You're telling me you can read that?"

"Yessir" said the hopeful voter, " Right here in the headline it says ain't no niggers voting in this state this year."

As Straightarrow says, gun owners are the modern-day analogue of those whom Reconstruction-era bigots referred to as "niggers."

It's up to us whether we'll emulate Uncle Tom, or Nat Turner.

Missouri, look to Wyoming to see how getting a Firearms Freedom Act is done

Political realities in Missouri will make a Wyoming-style FFA a hard sell (it would be difficult, for example, to imagine anti-gun Governor Jay Nixon signing such a bill), but Wyoming's law can be held up as an example of what a state truly concerned about the right of its citizens will do in their defense [More]

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GRE Round Up, Apr. 7

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:

David Codrea/National:
Is your doctor qualified to give gun safety advice?

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Snohomish County councilman misrepresents law to push anti-gun agenda
Good shooting of one bad man, good arrest of another

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Tea Party activists dismissed as 'stupid people with guns'

Ah--now we get to the crux of his "point." What we need is another restriction on gun ownership. This restriction, though, will be in the form of a kind of "political intelligence" test--with someone like him judging just who is "smart enough" to be armed. [More]

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GRE Round Up, Apr. 6

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:

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
Inner City Gang-Rape

David Codrea/National:
Is 'gun safety' prescibed by Kaiser Permanente based on science or politics?

Chris Woodard/Tucson:
Obama exposed? Did Michelle let the cat out of the bag?
Arizona gun rights still moving along


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Firearms Freedom Act still picking up steam

Yesterday, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed HB 2307--Arizona's version of the Firearms Freedom Act, into law. This makes six states (Monatana, Tennessee, Utah, Wyoming, and South Dakota are the others) that have some version of the Firearms Freedom Act on the books as law. Idaho will become the seventh, if and when Governor Butch Otter signs Idaho House Bill 589 into law, as expected. [More]

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GRE Round Up, Apr. 5

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:

Anthony Bouchard/Cheyenne:
Matt Mead, deceptive with so called “rumor control”
Casper store, no guns allowed resolved

Daniel White/Cleveland:
Ohioans For Concealed Carry Fun 'n Gun a great success

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:
Safer Streets 2010: Why are Militias armed?

David Codrea/National:
India gives further evidence on universal futility of 'gun control'

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Second Amendment March two weeks from today

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Educating the Illinois public about defensive handgun carry

So ingrained in the culture of much of Illinois is the acceptance of state mandated defenselessness, that bringing the state out of its current violent criminal-friendly Dark Age will first require altering that culture. Efforts to bring about that change are now underway in earnest, thanks to the folks at IllinoisCarry.com, who have organized a series of "Right to Carry Town Hall Meetings" [More]

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GRE Round Up, Apr. 3

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:

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:
Safer Streets 2010: American Militias, Part II.

David Codrea/National:
'Extremist' pol: armed Americans can resist tyranny and defend nation

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Open carry controversy just won’t go away

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Congressman Phil Hare doesn't 'worry about the Constitution' with regard to guns, either

What does this have to do with gun rights? Well, Congressman Hare clearly doesn't worry about the Constitution when it comes to guns, either, as demonstrated by his "F" grade from Gun Owners of America. Actually, if GOA ever extends their grading scale deeper into the alphabet, Hare could earn a "Z" grade, as evidenced by his answers on the 2006 Congressional National Political Awareness Test. [More]

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GRE Round Up, Apr. 2

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.

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Anthony Bouchard/Cheyenne:
Matt Mead for Governor, wolf in sheep’s clothing

David Codrea/National:
Why is MSNBC's Rachel Maddow smearing Second Amendment March?

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Some Missouri lawmakers getting hands-on knowledge of state gun laws

“I think it’s incredibly shortsighted for so many people who are not even elected by the public to bring guns into the Capitol, (especially) so many people who often are immature and feel very passionate about their positions,” said Rep. Mary Still, a Columbia Democrat who voted against the bill.

So Rep. Still, apparently, believes that the lives of elected officials are more worth defending than the lives of lesser mortals. Personally, I have my own misgivings about such legislation, but they're a bit different from Rep. Still's. I wonder why any citizen, including those who have no professional connection to the state government, should be deprived of the means of self-defense. [More]

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GRE Round Up, Apr. 1

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:

Don Gwinn/Chicago:
IL Governor, legislative leaders' rumored deal would bring right-to-carry to Illinois

David Codrea/National:
Are concealed gun carriers more likely to kill than police?
ATF newsletter picture worth a thousand words—and one question

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Kirkland shoot-out aftermath proves medical marijuana dilemma requires legislative fix
Spring shocker: White House 2A ‘beer summit’ falls through!

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If 'gun free' zones are too expensive, there is an alternative

Of course, even if armed security is included in the definition of "adequate security," how much armed security is to be considered "adequate" to justify demanding that people give up their own means of self-defense? The killing spree at the Kirkwood, Missouri city council meeting discussed here, for example, started with the killer shooting an armed police officer outside the building, and taking his gun. [More]

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