If the MSM reported your day at the range, from the Onion. Funny stuff.
Category: The Media
Pocono Record Fast Becoming Most Loathed Paper
Maybe it’s all the people moving there from New Jersey and New York, but the Pocono Record is fast becoming the most biased paper, with absolutely the worst reporting on guns of any paper in the state. They might as well work out of New York City for as awful as their attitude is towards the shooting sports and gun owners in general.
Take a look at this story about the State Game Commission opening a new range and closing an old one, which the Record turns into a story about terrorists training to use guns.
Do You Agree with NRA?
The Charlotte Observer is conducting a poll ahead of the NRA Annual Meeting. Obviously this is a scientifically rigorous poll, which it would be just terrible if all of you went and voted “Yes.” The Observer also notes that 70,000 people are expected for the meeting. So much for people being pissed about the venue.
We leave for Charlotte at 5AM tomorrow morning. It’s a ten hour drive from Philadelphia. Dan from PAFOA will be going down with us. We have to be there by 5:30PM for our first event. For those who might be going, we’re trying to organize a Foursquare Swarm at the Annual Meeting, so that NRA and the City of  Charlotte get its first swarm badge. I guess this means I need to sign up for Foursquare.
Gun Rights: It’s Like Burning Witches
At least according to Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution:
A hundred years from now, historians and sociologists will look back on these times and puzzle over the right’s utter fanaticism over firearms. Much like we look back today and wonder how New Englanders could really have believed that a few odd women might have been witches and burned them at the stake…
The rest is calling for removing the rights of Americans without due process of law, which I say historians will one day look back on, and say was kind of like when we denied many Americans their basic rights without due process in the South prior to the civil rights movement. Ridiculous assertion? No more than hers.
We’re Winning
Spitting on the Second and First Amendments
The New York Times manages to do both in a single op-ed. It’s quite an impressive feat if you ask me. Maybe next week they can add support for quartering of troops for the trifecta.
The New “Terror Weapon”
The Kel-Tec Sub 2000, because anemic pistol caliber carbines are obviously now the new sprayers of death and destruction, and weapon of choice for terrorists. See, it’s scary because it’s a rifle, but it’s really a pistol. This rifle folds up for compact storage, but it’s unusable in its folded state. New York Times worries that it’s all too easy for them to carry out a Mumbai style attack with one of these.
There’s a reason he didn’t do that kind of attack. He was going for something spectacular. If he had gone for a mass shooting in Times Square, well, it’s been done before, and “shot by police” isn’t exactly the headline your typical jihadist wants. The key difference between Mumbai and here is that our police officers, even the ones in New York City, can generally hit what they shoot at, and aren’t uncomfortable employing their pistols or employing rifles in a Mumbai kind of situation. Even in New York City, where its citizens are forbidden from protecting themselves, I’d give a Times Square shooter about two or three shots before the NYPD drops him.
Bloomberg’s solution is to use the terror watch list to prevent things like this from happening. Which seems to have worked oh so well for keeping this guy out of the country in the first place. These are the people Bloomberg demands we put our lives in the hands of. Personal protection isn’t an option in his world.
UPDATE: To be fair to the New York Times, I thought their article was at least researched. Years ago the ignorance they would have displayed in regards to the guns form and function would have been astounding. They are still playing their old games, but at least now they are getting basic facts right.
Now We’re a Cancer
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed, who was recently sold to creditors. They got a veteran to do the op-ed, because who can argue with a veteran, after all.
Good Stories
Lots of gun owners have good stories, but not many tell them, and definitely not to reporters. This guy did, and got his story in front of the City of Denver. It’s a story how a man came to own a gun after the justice system repeatedly failed his family, and he needed to protect them. The other side wants to inflate the risk, and they have no shortages of anecdotes to make people who carry firearms for self-protection look like idiots, criminals or worse. But they never have an answer for Sam Myrants of the world, other than call 911 and hope for the best.
Bias? What Bias?
KYW apparently reported dozens at the Rally in Harrisburg, despite the rest of the state media saying hundreds, which is the correct number. I guess someone must have complained, because KYW switched to hundreds too in this mornings news.