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More Philadelphia Media Nonsense

As expected, the NRA continues to cling to the age-old argument that guns are the least of the problem.

“It’s the same song-and-dance out of Ramsey, focusing on the firearm and not at the root of the problem,” NRA spokesman John Hohenwarter said. “The problem is the revolving door of the courtroom and the lack of intervention for these kids who grow up to be criminals.”

But none of those things killed Liczbinski. A criminal armed with a body-armor-penetrating weapon did.

Ms. John-Hall, if you can read this post here, and tell me that one more gun law is going to matter, you’re either a fool, or worse.Â Let’s stop pretending here.Â The city isn’t even enforcing the laws we already have.Â So why do we have them?Â You shouldÂ be making the city politicians answer for this, not the NRA.

I’ll Be On Cam & Company Tonight

I’ll be making an appearance on Cam & Company tonight at the 9:20 segment to talk about the Second Amendment Blog Bash, happening as part of the NRA Annual Meeting in Louisville, KY later this week, and through the weekend.Â I hope everyone can tune in.Â You can catch Cam’s show on Sirius Patriot 144 from 9 to midnight, and on NRANews.com

New Gun Blog

The Arizona Rifleman.Â I remember Heypete from when I used to spend time on LiveJournal’s guns community.Â He always seemed like a sensible guy.

Quote of the Day

A comment to Bitter’s post yesterday about the problem in Burma:

Each recovery package contains rice, a water filter, an SKS, 100 rounds of ammo, and a map with directions to the capital.

Sounds good to me.Â Also very much worth reading on the Burma issue, is a post at The Belmont Club.Â As always with that blog, the comments are often as good as the post.

When I Was 13

It never occured to me to steal my dad’s credit card and use it to buy prostitutes.Â The best part of all this:

They told the suspicious working girls they were people of restricted growth working with a traveling circus, and as State law does not allow those with disabilities to be discriminated against they had no right to refuse them.

The $1,000 a night girls sensing something up played “Halo” on the Xbox with the kids, instead of selling their sexual services.

Ralph’s ambition is to one day become a politician.

I’d say he’s off to a great start.

Interview with David E. Young

David Codrea has an interview up.Â If you’ll be in Louisville, David Young and David Hardy will be at booth number 1551 all three days.Â Stop by and say hi.

We Don’t Need Guns in Parks

Except to defend against double murderers.

I Don’t Care Who You Are …

… this is really funny.Â As I’ve said, I plan to vote for the old bastard.Â But that’s fun for the whole family right there.

VCDL Response

VCDL responds to my earlier criticism about their open carry dinner.Â As I said in the comments, if you can go out in public openly armed, and people just don’t pay attention, shouldn’t that be considered mission accomplished?Â If the goal is to get concealed carry in restaurants, that will happen eventually, it just means waiting out Kaine.Â It seems to me that potentially rubbing restaurant goers the wrong way by making a public announcement in a place where public announcements generally aren’t socially acceptable does more to undermine that cause than to promote it.

UPDATE: Countertop in the comments:

First, I understand that the owner pressured him to stand up and say something.Â I wasn’t there, so I don’t know for sure – thats just what I heard.

Also, this was the culminating dinner – with full press attention (though really, I was hoping for the Washington Times or Post or something substantial) – with a whole crowd gathered.

Knowing these two fact, it strikes me that there might be more to this story and that, while certainly within the attention whore column, perhaps not as bad as if it was just another one of the VCDL dinners.

This would certainly be a mitigating circumstance.

HR1022 Momentum

Keyboard and a .45 talks about the growing momentum of HR1022.Â What we’re seeing here is that the gun hating faction of the Democratic party growing bolder, as polls show that the 2008 election is likely to be a bloodbath for Republicans.Â While the national candidates are stilll pretending to be gun shy, a lot of anti-gun Democrats are feeling brave enough to “come out,” so to speak.

If we don’t halt the Democratic momentum this fall, we’re looking at dark days for our gun rights ahead.