Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:
David Codrea/National:
- Jackpot: The murmur is ‘register to vote’ and ‘protect SCOTUS’
- Firearms industry celebrates, solidifies with elections on horizon
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
GRE Round Up, Jan 18
Stumble it!Tuesday, January 17, 2012
GRE Round Up, Jan 17
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PEG's Spengler can disparage candles as violence fighting measure, but we're 'jerks'
Some might remember last week when the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) went into a screaming meltdown of horrified outrage, on Facebook (oops--Facebook apparently didn't like that one, and took it down), on their blog, at Opposing Views, and over and over again on their Twitter feed. What has them stomping their little feet is our various responses to the Brady Campaign's "Too Many Victims" candle burning and "gun control" party on Jan. 8.
CSGV's little temper tantrum specifically mentioned blog posts by several gun rights advocacy bloggers, including my St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner column about the event, and about the futility of burning candles to stop violence.
What offended them the most, though, was the video (below), made by Joe Huffman and Baron Barnett. If you haven't seen it, it's definitely worth the time:
Oddly enough, though, CSGV lovingly echoes their ideological ally Abby Spangler, of Protest Easy Guns, when she says something quite similar to what we said, on our way to becoming "jerks":
I decided that someone had to speak out and say this is unacceptable. We're not just going to light candles to mourn the victims.Double standards much?
Besides, it's not the number of gun owners that matters
They ignore a couple key points, though. The first is that Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human rights are not subject to being voted away based on their popularity. 51% of the population may not vote away the rights of the other 49%, and indeed, 99% may not vote away the rights of the other 1% (take that how you wish).That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
The other, more important, point is that losing an election is far from the worst thing that can happen to a politician who tries to illegitimately usurp the power of the people--especially an armed people. We are the 3%, and the other 97% cannot hope to outvote us as long as our ammo supply lasts--and we've been stocking up. [More]
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Monday, January 16, 2012
GRE Round Up, Jan 16
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Mike Stollenwerk/DC:
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Dave Workman/Seattle:
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Honor Martin Luther King by defeating racism inherent to 'gun control'
"Gun control" is really about people control, and those doing the controlling very often select those being controlled on the basis of ethnicity.That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
We shall overcome. [More]
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Friday, January 13, 2012
GRE Round Up, Jan 13
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Dave Workman/Seattle:
CSGV demands information from gun industry; not from Holder, Clinton
Oddly, while CSGV shrilly clamors for more information (information that, remember, is already readily available) from the gun industry about gun sales figures, they seem to have no interest in pressing Attorney General Eric Holder for any information in his possession about gun sales to Mexican drug cartels, facilitated by his Department of "Justice." [More]That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
GRE Round Up, Jan 12
Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:
David Codrea/National:
- UPDATE: Foul-mouthed Canton cop fired, plans to appeal
- How will CeaseFire spin this? Homicide no longer among leading death causes
- Some Fast & Furious documents relating to Terry murder could be released
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
GRE Round Up, Jan 11
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David Codrea/National:
- Can administration rely on Guatemalan STD defense against ‘Gunwalker’ claims?
Yeah, I know I posted the above link in last night's Round Up, but I added it late, and it's too important to risk allowing it to be missed - Romney SHOULD make ‘conservatives squirm’
- ALERT: WA Legislature to consider range protection…again
- Anti-gun Nickels mulling run for Secretary of State?
Holding purveyors of anti-gun junk science accountable?
Entrance into the debate about anthropogenic climate change is obviously far beyond the scope of St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner, so what am I getting at? Just that if, as the article puts it, "deliberate manipulation of science" in an effort to influence policy becomes illegal, the forcible citizen disarmament lobby might want to "lawyer up." [More]That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
GRE Round Up, Jan 10
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Sean McClanahan/Des Moines:
- Indian leopard attack shows anti-human nature of ‘gun control’
- Can administration rely on Guatemalan STD defense against ‘Gunwalker’ claims?
- Controversy erupts over ‘NRA’ license plate proposal
- Fatal shooting in alleged Everett burglary ignites debate
Brady Campaign's 'too many victims' exposes true agenda
Now think about that. What is being argued here is that we need more and stricter gun laws, so we'll no longer continue to have "too many victims." How many is "too many"? One. Therefore, until the number of people shot in the U.S. becomes zero, we need more oppressive gun regulation. [More]That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
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Monday, January 09, 2012
GRE Round Up, Jan 9
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David Codrea/National:
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Tragic shooting death of 8th grader no justification for 'pellet gun control'
Get that? An "absolute need" for private citizens to be perforated by any bullets Beck's minions send their way (ironically, the famous police motto "To Protect and Serve" originated with the LA Police Academy, and then the LAPD).That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
Again, we may never be able to adequately understand what combination of factors led Jaime Gonzalez to his tragic, untimely death. We do know that to realize Charlie Beck's dream of making realistic looking fake firearms unavailable, we would have to ban soap and shoe polish/ink/etc. [More]
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Friday, January 06, 2012
GRE Round Up, Jan 6
Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:
David Codrea/National:
- Reuters reports on ATF 'Gunwalker' reassignments day after GRE, SSI
- Open letter to Darrell Issa and Chuck Grassley on anticipated gunwalking report
- Grassley: New docs prove Admin knew about gun walking
- Correction and apology…and some questions about Fast & Furious
- An awful week for Evergreen State law enforcement
Thursday, January 05, 2012
GRE Round Up, Jan 5
Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:
David Codrea/National:
- Breaking: ATF reportedly relieves Fast and Furious managers prior to OIG report
- Top Chicago cop continues to blame law for crime
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Wednesday, January 04, 2012
GRE Round Up, Jan 4
Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:
David Codrea/National:
- New York Times offers most stupid anti-gun argument yet
- Attorney General Holder to testify Feb. 2 on Fast and Furious
- Gun owners coming through for ranger’s family; killer ‘kind of a jerk’
- BREAKING: Holder to testify Feb. 2 before House Oversight Committee
Top 2 Iowa frontrunners no better than 'Obama Light' on guns
Sales of firearms and ammunition dramatically spiked in late 2008 and early 2009, as fears of a rabidly anti-gun Obama administration spurred Americans to buy what they could, while they could. If the general election comes down to a choice between an Obama second term, in which he need not even keep his anti-gun agenda "under the radar," and Romney, Santorum or Gingrich, 2012 and beyond will be a good time to keep buying guns.That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
Don't forget the ammo, and lots of training, either. Got militia?. [More]
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Tuesday, January 03, 2012
GRE Round Up, Jan 3
Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:
David Codrea/National:
- Gun rights, parks gun law blamed for Mt. Rainier slaying
- Stepping forward for a ‘Fallen Ranger’ – a gun rights forum
Prison not enough for peaceable armed citizen, Bloomberg smears her with lie
Cocaine in her pocket? Umm . . . no. What the police found on her person was "white powder in two glassine envelopes." Graves explained that the white powder was powdered aspirin, and indeed the toxicology tests the police ran discovered no illegal substances.That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
Bloomberg's press conference was one full week after the arrest. Even if the lab results were still pending (that's not entirely clear), Bloomberg had changed the arrest report's "alleged cocaine" to simply "cocaine in her pocket"--a rather enormous difference. [More]
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Monday, January 02, 2012
GRE Round Up, Jan 2
Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:
David Codrea/National:
- Make and keep New Year's gun rights resolutions
- AP ‘top 10’ list confirms media still ignoring Fast and Furious story
- FBI warning San Antonio gun shops of ‘terror indicators’ exposes another danger
- SAF brief demolishes Seattle's Supreme Court review request
- Mount Rainier shooting opens door for agenda pandering
Friday, December 30, 2011
GRE Round Up, Dec 30
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David Codrea/National:
- New Year’s Resolution? Follow Fast & Furious to the end
- NY City Councilman: ‘Clearly, the (gun) laws are too strict here…’
Let's all laugh (some more) at the Brady Campaign
This is too funny to wait for the GRE Round Up later today. Go read about David Codrea's late Christmas present, in "Brady troll stalking WarOnGuns blog a welcome holiday gift to share."
It gets even better, here.
Obama violates his own words in defying Congress to advance 'gun control' agenda
Interestingly, as a presidential candidate, Obama eloquently described the blatant unconstitutionality of these signing statements (see sidebar video, about a minute and a half long, and thanks John Richardson, for finding the video). First, he straight up promises not to use presidential signing statements. Then he (quite justifiably) chastised then-President Bush for his profligate use of them. He closed with this:That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.We're not going to use signing statements as a way of doing an end-run around Congress. Alright?President Obama is now indisputably an oath breaker and liar. Kinda makes one wonder about his veracity here, doesn't it? [More]
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
GRE Round Up, Dec 29
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Sean McClanahan/Des Moines:
David Codrea/National:
- Armed American Radio producer posts Gunwalker interview with Gun Rights Examiner
- Have a Merry Christmas!
- Holder’s OIG ’Gunwalker’ investigation passes historic milestone today
- Administration/media collaboration continues Gunwalker misdirection
- ATF management to treat Gunwalker crimes as personnel policy violations
- Santa Claus is....
- Looking back on 2011 and its biggest stories, Pt. I
- Top gun rights stories of 2011, Pt. II
- Utah gun bill reflects problem with Washington statute
- Is Microsoft showing some hypocrisy with gamer gun flap?
- Reading behind the lines of police fatalities
- Does WDFW press release reveal serious fault with WA wildlife management?
- Why the silence from WA congressional delegation on Fast & Furious?
If gun rights were treated like voting rights
With governments historically being by far the most prolific mass-murderers in the world, (and with the victims often chosen along ethnic lines), how can protection of the legitimacy of the process by which the government is chosen be considered "racist," while far more onerous requirements for possessing the tools to resist such murderous tyranny is not? [More]That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
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Friday, December 23, 2011
GRE Round Up, Dec 23
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Sean McClanahan/Des Moines:
Dave Workman/Seattle:
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Do anti-gun groups oppose 'assault weapons' for retired California 'Only Ones'?
Why retired "Only Ones" would need the ability to wreak such mayhem is left even more murky. Representative Carolyn "What's a Barrel Shroud?" McCarthy (D-NY) and Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) might be able to explain--their respective bills to ban full capacity magazines are justified by the same kind of rhetoric ("The only reason to have 33 bullets loaded in a handgun is to kill a lot of people very quickly"), but both bills exempt current and retired officers from the ban.That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
If California lawmakers introduce legislation either to ban private ownership of "assault weapons" by cops, or to allow it, even for retired officers--or both types of legislation--"gun control" groups will have to pick a side. So will cops. [More]
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
GRE Round Up, Dec 22
Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:
David Codrea/National:
- One snowy night in late December...a shooter's Yule
- BREAKING: Border Patrol commissioner leaving; Lieberman blasts process
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
GRE Round Up, Dec 21
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David Codrea/National:
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
GRE Round Up, Dec 20
Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:
David Codrea/National:
- A Journalist's Guide to 'Project Gunwalker'-Part Eight
- American Trigger Sports Network Television hosts pro-gun panels
- WI experience should be wake-up call to WA senators
- Gowdy and Greta: Who is Holder protecting in Fast & Furious?
Holder still believes U.S. a 'nation of cowards,' counts on it
This, of course, would serve Holder well--the vast majority of Americans quite rightly try hard to avoid such an odious designation. If much of the public can be conned into believing that it's "racist" to demand the heads of the people responsible for the "Gunwalker" atrocity, only those with the courage to face that charge and refute it will be willing to make such a demand. In a "nation of cowards" with regard to racial issues, few will have that courage, which is why the "race card" has become such a favored trump in the so-called "progressives'" hand. [More]That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
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Monday, December 19, 2011
GRE Round Up, Dec 19
Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:
David Codrea/National:
- Push on for stronger self-defense law in WA
- Holder plays race card in NY Times profile
- BREAKING! Issa asks Holder to testify in January
Brady Campaign defends 'never letting a (manufactured) crisis go to waste'
It's "just common sense" to get some more infringements on that which shall not be infringed, out of a program whereby the U.S. government helped murder hundreds of Mexican citizens and at least two federal agents. Once upon a time, it was argued that it was "just common sense" to suspend civil liberties in the wake of the Reichstag fire.That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
Daniel Vice sounds like the kind of guy who would not only have agreed, but would not have wanted to talk about who lit the match. [More]
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Friday, December 16, 2011
GRE Round Up, Dec 16
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David Codrea/National:
- Issa: Brian A. Terry Memorial Act passes House
- American Trigger Sports Network Television hosts gun rights panel and more
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Why can't Mark Meckler just 'withdraw' his attempt to legally transport his gun?
Going back to Meckler's case, no one seems to dispute the notion that he had attempted in good faith to comply with all relevant laws, and simply failed to adequately familiarize himself with New York's insanely draconian gun laws. Seems tailor-made for a DoJ-style free pass to "withdraw" his attempt to transport the gun.That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
Guess it doesn't work that way for the rest of us, though. [More]
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
GRE Round Up, Dec 15
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David Codrea/National:
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1 in 5 women sexually assaulted; IL state police still advise 'vomit defense'
Ironically (and unforgivably), the extent to which the "fighting would probably be futile" statement is true is of course a function of Illinois law, which absolutely forbids carrying the most effective means of self-defense in public. Illinois Governor Pat Quinn announced this summer that he was proud of his support for the continued mandated defenselessness of women in Illinois, and groups like the Brady Campaign consider the failure of legalized concealed carry in Illinois this year a "victory."That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
"Anti-gun"? It's more like "pro-rape." [More]
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
GRE Round Up, Dec 14
Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:
David Codrea/National:
- ATF critics mark anniversary of incident that brought down Fast & Furious
- Grassley: ‘DoJ needs to provide straight answers, not spin’
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
GRE Round Up, Dec 13
Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:
Dave Workman/Seattle:
- Exclusive: Texas Rep. Poe: ‘F&F a ruse to go after U.S. gun sales’
- Wolves killed AK teacher; report adds new fuel to NW wolf war
If the rest of us had the powers of our 'gunwalking' DoJ
Those congressmen had every right to be incredulous, but one must admit that the idea of being able to "withdraw" falsehoods . . . oops, I mean "inaccuracies" has some appeal. Get caught by the IRS claiming much less taxable income than you had actually earned? No problem--just "withdraw" the "inaccurate" tax forms, and no tax evasion charges for you. Get caught "inaccurately" claiming on your ATF Form 4473 that you are buying the gun for yourself, rather than acting as a "straw purchaser" for a felon? Don't worry about it--just "withdraw" that form, and all is forgiven . . . right? [More]That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
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Monday, December 12, 2011
GRE Round Up, Dec 12
Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:
David Codrea/National:
- Hollywood gunman enabled by anti-defense sentiments and laws
- Gungrabbers equate armed self-defenders with ‘executioners’
- Researchers predict UN Arms Trade Treaty will be finalized by summer
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Washington Post wonders if gun rights advances are responsible for police deaths
No effort was made to explain how "more firearms on the streets and in the wrong hands" could lead to more law enforcement officers' deaths, without causing violent crime overall to rise (and indeed it has fallen). The editorial certainly didn't try to explain which specific aspects of the "ascendancy" of gun owners' rights are allowing more firearms to end up "in the wrong hands." More states with concealed carry? That doesn't affect who can legally own a gun at all. More "castle doctrine" laws, whereby law-abiding citizens are not required to retreat before utilizing lethal force in self-defense? Again--that changes nothing about who can legally own a gun. [More]That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
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Saturday, December 10, 2011
Guardian blames gun shop for gun trafficking, ignores 'gunwalker' connection
There's something else the Guardian article never once mentions. There was not a single word in the article about the fact that Carter's Country had been recruited by the BATFE, in what those who have been following the "Project Gunwalker" scandal will recognize as an operation very similar to "Operation Fast and Furious." That operation, which was run out of the Phoenix office of the BATFE, was only one component of "Project Gunwalker" (CBS News has found "gunwalking" allegations in ten cities, spread throughout five states). [More]That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
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