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A Blogger’s Worry: Media Getting Better on Guns?
As much as we beat up on the media for getting it wrong, or outright bias, there is a certain amount of buzz that’s necessary for a political gun writer to have something to talk about. Lately that...
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Comment on Weekend Twitter Outrage over Costas’ Remark
I like it when I can take a break over a weekend to work on my basement office, get a new crown fitted at the Dentist Monday morning, and not have to worry about some media personality spewing nonsense...
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The New Red Dawn
Last night, Sebastian treated me to a movie and finally had a movie theater experience that he found remotely pleasant. We picked the 10:35pm mid-week showing of a movie that’s already been running for...
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Bias Much?
Apparently it’s a media story when four anti-gun protesters show up at the White House. You know, we get 6x that many people to show up to my local club’s monthly meeting. Will whatever media outlet...
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Two Men Want to Tell Women What to Think on Guns
I had to check out this video of two male Wall Street Journal reporters talking about how Smith & Wesson will need to go back to the drawing board on their new marketing efforts because those...
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The Full Hysterics
I haven’t had a lot of time to pay attention in any great detail to what the media has been yammering about. For now we have gun owners to mobilize. SayUncle has a pretty good roundup of some of the...
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Illustrating the Term “Idiot Box”
In our holiday travels, I’ve had the opportunity to watch local news in two metro areas that have reduced Wayne LaPierre’s entire speech and NRA’s entire proposed school security program down to the...
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NBC Could be in Real Trouble
Lots of hay has been made of David Gregory flashing a 30 round magazine, which is illegal in Washington DC in Wayne LaPierre’s face on Meet the Press. Apparently they contacted the DC police, which...
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Media Pulling Strings with Administration Officials
It seems that NBC contacted the DC police about having David Gregory use a 30-round-magazine on Meet the Press and was told that they could not violate the law. However, TMZ reports that NBC appears to...
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Specific Steps You Can Take to Oppose the Coming Obama/Biden Gun Controls
I’m back with more specific ideas that you can try in your version of a “gun community” to oppose new gun control measures. My apologies for the time off from these, but it was a little tough to blog...
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Anger Issues
I have to agree with Professor Reynolds. The fact that guys like this are out there and taken seriously is a big reason I own firearms. What is being proposed here, seriously, in a mainstream...
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Gun Shows Banned from Public Property in Pennsylvania?
Creating a story where there otherwise isn’t one, the AP reported that Gov. Tom Corbett is considering a ban on any gun shows on public property. Considering that the Governor just recently made clear...
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Did Katie Glueck of Politico Even Think of Consulting Gun Experts?
This photo show is so bad I don’t even know where to begin, and even basic facts and understanding about guns and gun regulations are completely missing. . I will endeavor to educate Ms. Glueck, so...
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Women are Part of the Debate
Courtesy of John Richardson on Twitter, I came across this post which supports a claim that pro-gun women’s voices haven’t been heard in the current debate on gun control. They argue that gun control...
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A Reporter Takes a Shooting Class
A New Haven reporter who had handled guns three times before in very casual ways with no serious instruction decided to actually take a class that would allow him to get a permit to carry. He wrote...
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Ripping the Insurance Gun Control Proposals Apart
The Editorial Page Editor for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review rips apart various gun control proposals that violate not just Second Amendment rights, but also our Fourth Amendment rights. Whether it’s...
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We Have Come to This?
The left is basically tearing Bob Woodward to pieces, because, well, the White House asked them to, because he wrote a piece critical of the Administration’s position that the sequester is all the...
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Racism at Bloomberg?
And here I thought us knuckle dragging gun owners were the racists. People these days are often quick to cry racism when non exists or is intended. I’m not sure it was really intended here, but I can’t...
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What the Media Really Thinks of Gun Owners
Locally, there’s a new group that has popped up to defend gun rights. The media is aghast, and they resent being reminded that 1 in 17 of voting age adults in the county have concealed carry permits –...
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Then Why Talk to the Media?
UPDATE: I should clarify here that when I’m speaking of “the media”, I’m implying speaking of hostile media, like the WaPo, NYT, or other outlets that have chronically shown an unwillingness to cover...
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