The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State …
Well, if anything, we can say that Bloomberg’s bus tour is definitely getting media attention, and it’s also attracting counter protestors, which is a good thing (when they aren’t being boneheads and getting arrested). The media story out of Raleigh, where the MAIGic Bus tour stopped yesterday, is one of a two sided showing. This … Continue reading “Sunday News Links”
Gabby Giffords asked Chris Christie for an anti-gun successor to Lautenberg. What we get is NJ’s current sitting AG. I don’t really know his record on guns, or even if he has one, but to be honest I don’t consider it to be remarkably important, because he could be the Carrie Nation of guns and it … Continue reading “A New New Jersey Senator”
I find it quite interesting that just as Sen. Richard Blumenthal announces that he’s going to bog the pending immigration bill down with gun control amendments, Majority Leader Harry Reid comes out and announces he’s getting the gun control gang back together for another round of stand-alone legislation. The timing of this makes it appear … Continue reading “The Federal Gun Control Push”
I’m not too surprised by this:Â A GOP strategist is behind some of the Bloomberg ads. My guess is that some in the GOP establishment see this as an opportunity to weaken some key Democrats with their base. I think this strategist makes the mistake of believing there’s a strong movement for gun control among southern … Continue reading “GOP Strategist Behind Bloomberg Ads?”
I sort of feel like I need to come with a better name for these things than news dumps. One that seems to allude to bowel movements would be nice. Though, in a sense, these do serve to clear the constipation in my browser tabs. These news dumps will probably start happening less often as … Continue reading “Monday News Dump”
With media rumors going around that Jeff Flake was going to switch his vote and support gun control, he is speaking out on the issue: It was reported by some media outlets today that I am changing my vote on Manchin-Toomey, and that I am somehow linking this vote to a vote on the internet … Continue reading “Jeff Flake Stays with Us”
We noticed SAF/CCRBKA’s booth on the NRA floor, but decided not to stop. But Think Progress did, and noticed they were handing out literature taking NRA to task over Manchin-Toomey: But despite the bill’s (perhaps temporary) defeat in the Senate, CCRKBA doesn’t appear to be backing down — The Gun Mag, a Second Amendment Foundation publication, … Continue reading “With Friends Like This …”
Starting very shortly the event that this whole show is based around will start: the Annual Meeting of members. A good bit of this meeting is political theater, but it serves a bylaw function, and members can still take the floor and have their say and put motions on the floor. If members are really … Continue reading “NRA Annual Meeting Live Blog”
Ever since New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte voted with us on the Toomey-Manchin sellout, Bloomberg and Obama have been doing their best to manufacture outrage at her town hall meetings, and the media has only been too happy play along. The New Hampshire Journal takes an honest look at these “protesters” and discovers an awful … Continue reading “The Astroturfing of Ayotte”
This is why the gun control debate isn’t going away in Pennsylvania. It’s kind of funny that we’re not currently facing any serious threats at the state level, yet Pennsylvania seems to be right on an edge of voting for major gun control supporters. It doesn’t make me feel any better that some are speculating … Continue reading “The Problem of Pennsylvania”
