Joe tells us that the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence is, for the most part, politically dead. Seems they had a little cash flow problem. Maybe they need to give Paulson a call.
Year: 2008
Quote of the Day
From Bruce, who liked Palin’s performance last night:
Now, let’s get to work.
I’ll be doing a little door-to-door campaigning with the McCain people in Exeter on Saturday morning. Shoot me an e-mail if you wanna join us. Also, I was at the Stratham office earlier today. They’ve got some of them honkin’ big McCain/Palin yard signs (think sheet of plywood) if
you want one.
This definitely isn’t the election for complacency. Just running down the ways Obama can screw us, without executing a head on attack, is rather frightning. And that’s just assuming we’re not looking at another attempt at a new assault weapons ban, which I can promise you will be worse than the last one.
Downrange TV Coverage of Blogger Weekend
Lehigh County Has a Good Prosecutor
Second Amendment supporters need to get in touch with Lehigh County District Attorney James Martin, because he’s standing up for us in fighting Allentown’s violation of statewide preemption:
Martin reiterated his pledge to seek non-enforcement of the law, saying if someone is arrested, he will seek to intervene on the person’s behalf to get the case dismissed. “I certainly have the authority, based on the duties of the district attorney established by the state,” Martin said. “I control the keys to the courthouse.”
Martin also said that he is considering joining the National Rifle Association in its fight to get a similar law in Philadelphia tossed, as well as pursuing his own challenge of Allentown’s law.
“I will be proactive,” he declared.
If you want to contact the District Attorney to thank him for taking this stand, you can find his contact information here. It’s good to see an elected official in this area standing up for the law.
The VP Debate
I had to watch it on time delay because the club had our first Indoor Silhouette match of the year last night. Joe Biden delivered a stellar debate performance by Joe Biden standards, meaning he didn’t say anything stupid, outlandish, or at any point insert his foot into his mouth. He deserves a round of applause for that, and for putting up with the myriad of botox injections he looks like he received before his performance. That shit is painful.
But Joe Biden has been running for President for twenty years, and despite his experience at being on the national stage, Sarah Palin kept up with him pretty much every step of the way. Expectations of her set by the media were so low, I would actually be willing to argue she was the winner of the debate just by virtue of the fact that she showed the public she can play with the big boys. Say what you will, she’s deserves to be on that stage, and she’s every bit as qualified as Barack Obama.
We Have To Return to the Goldfish Standard
Gun Shows Don’t Cause Sky to Fall
This has to be a pretty awful thing for the Brady Campaign to read:
A new study finds no evidence that gun shows lead to substantial increases in either gun-related homicides or suicides.
The University of Michigan and University of Maryland study also shows that tighter regulation of gun shows does not appear to reduce the number of firearms-related deaths.
That makes sense, since most of the people at gun shows are people like us. Speaking of gun shows, I have the machine built with Ubuntu 8.04 that will run our touchscreen version of O-Match at the Allentown Gun Show this weekend. It’s unfortunate, but the O-Match application phones back to the mother ship in order to download the questions. I’m guessing NRA set it up this way so that if Obama said anything else stupid, it could be added to the mix. Hopefully they have a standalone shockwave version that could run on my machine without a network connection. If not, I’ll have to figure out how to tether the machine through a cell phone connection, and hope they have cell phone reception in the hall.
Back to the original topic, I’ve been convinced that the reason the gun control people target gun shows, is because it’s one of our cheif organization and outreach tools. They have to know that very few crime guns are traced to shows. They can read the statistics as well as we can.
The Blogging Community
Bitter thinks more hook and bullet writers who are trying to break into blogging need to be reading other blogs, and participating in the community as a whole:
If you click through, it’s to a NewsMax article about Obama trying to get NRA ads booted off the air. Petzal is not clear if he’s questioning the existence of the threatening letters, the accuracy of NRA, or NewsMax. I was a little perturbed by this when I left a comment outlining numerous sources that link the letters and responses.
But then I realized that I was actually a little short because of a slightly related beef with the outdoor media and the blogosphere. I applaud these forms of dead tree media for encouraging their writers to blog. However, I’m not sure that they really understand what a community the blogosphere is, and how that community makes the blogosphere as great as it is, especially in the gun world.
I would agree. Read the whole thing.
My Blog Forces Biden’s Chopper Down!
I got excited when I read this headline. But then I realized they were talking about real snowflakes. The article goes on to detail Biden’s pathological lying. I still can’t believe that Obama picked this guy. He’s lucky the media is in the tank for him.
Quote of the Day
From Clayton Cramer, describing the fact that the Senate bailout plan contains an excise tax exemption for wooden arrows:
I suppose that we can more cheaply train our kids to become a nation of bowmen this way, so as to overthrow this corrupt and foolish government in a carbon-neutral way.
Clearly the nations economic health would have been imperiled if it wasn’t for this much needed stimulus for the wood industry.