Peddling Outrage While Leaving Out Key Facts
It seems that Media Matters set their sights on Cam Edwards yesterday, challenging him on biography. See, at one point Cam said he received a resolution from the Oklahoma State House. It turns out it...
View ArticleAs Texas Gun Bills Advance, Media Plays Race Card
An open carry and campus carry bills are moving along in the Texas legislature. So desperate are our opponents to stop this bill, they’re dragging out probably the most effective argument you can use...
View ArticleCalls to Turn Weaponized IRS On NRA
A few weeks ago, Yahoo News published a hit piece on NRA. I figured this was likely ginned up by some of our opponents in the gun control movement. Most of the mainstream outfits would love a story...
View ArticleHere We Go Again: George Zimmerman Gets Shot
Apparently the media’s zero to sensationalist time is pretty damned low, as they are already couching their headlines to make it seem like Zimmerman has claimed yet another victim. USA Today headline,...
View ArticleNew York Times Forgets the Lesson of Smith & Wesson
The New York Times doesn’t think left-wing activists should divest themselves of Remington. Why? Because Remington would be better if it were bullied by SJW shareholders. It’s easy to see why they...
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Democratic Operatives Call for IRS to Investigate NRA
Yahoo News is following up on their hit piece against NRA, reporting on Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) calling on the IRS to open an investigation into the NRA. This is a...
View ArticleThis isn’t good news, folks
A lot of people are pointing to a CNN article that references an official statement that the shooter bought the pistol used in the attack himself (and thus passed a NICS check), rather than being given...
View ArticleThe Assault Weapons Hysteria Begins
Thank God the Charleston killer didn’t get his hands on an AR-15, or someone might have gotten hurt. Needless to say, the media and hysterical types are going to town with the fact that the killer...
View ArticleEven NPR has noticed
Saw this on Facebook, and was mildly surprised that NPR posted this Since 1993, the United States has seen a drop in the rate of homicides and other violence involving guns, according to two new...
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Thom Anderson of SC Morning News Parades Ignorance
I was going to place this in the Weekly Gun News, but reviewing it, I couldn’t waste a perfectly good yellow journalism post. Thom Anderson of the South Carolina Morning News doesn’t understand all...
View ArticlePositive Coverage on Gun Culture 2.0
I had expressed skepticism a while back about getting a fair story out of NBC on guns, but despite Newsbusters pooh-poohing piece, I find no fault with how any of the participants handled Farrow’s...
View ArticleCharge of the hobbyhorse brigade
The story of the Katie Steinle killing has taken a new direction, with the “breaking news” that the gun used by her killer was stolen from the car of a federal agent; though whether it was a service...
View ArticleA Reddit thread on self-defense
Redditors who have had to kill in self defense, Did you ever recover psychologically? What is it to live knowing you killed someone regardless you didn’t want to do it? Found this on Facebook, and...
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Gun Clubs & The Press
Last week, I ventured out to West Virginia for a funeral and managed to stop by a couple of libraries between family gatherings to do a little bit of genealogy research for Sebastian. Needless to say,...
View ArticleCut the Cord and Unsubscribe
I’ve been an advocate for some time for gun owners and center-right people of all persuasions to stop giving money to people who hate them. I’ll repeat that no gun owner should subscribe to a paper...
View ArticleIt Would Be Nice if Politifact Would Consult Experts
Politifact has taken on claim that the Social Security changes floated by the Obama Administration amount to a huge gun ban for millions of elderly Americans, and have concluded it’s bunk. They have...
View ArticleCNN Wets Themselves Over Legal Flamethrowers
Apparently someone at CNN Money heard of a company selling surplus flamethrowers for $1600 bucks, and laid an egg when they found out that they are totally unregulated. It seems even more silly to ban...
View ArticleVox Gets What No Gun Control Group Does
If I had a list of rules of effective political advocacy, on that list would be that you should be able to know and argue your opponents position as well as, or better than they can. The left-leaning...
View ArticleHow to Turn Six into Dozens
In last week’s news link we covered a tweet from CSGV of a protest outside the office of Virginia State Senator John Edwards: Photo of CSGV Protest at @Edwards4VA‘s Office Today w/ STV Star City &...
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A high-schooler, a clock, a bomb?
L’affaire Ahmed has been reverberating across my facebook feed for a while now, and it looks like we’ve gotten about all the facts that are going to be shaken loose outside of discovery in a civil suit...
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