Our local newspaper has some blogs now. I’ve read this sentence now like four times:
Today I spent an extra free thought time to consider knowing as I prepared to lead a discussion on ideas tonight.
They speak English in what?
An essay on a recurring theme here at SayUncle: Why won’t those dumb, cousin-humping rednecks vote for Obama?
Is it the racism? The elitism. Who knows, really?
Personally, I think the answer is much simpler than all the pixel-waxing done these days over such a question: we don’t like him.
David is pretty upset over the McCain thing. And David tells us that McCain is not exactly a great ally to gun owners. True. He’s not what I’d call a stellar gun rights supporter. However, he is not openly hostile to gun owners like Hillary and Barack Obama. And the significance of his attendance at the NRA meeting shows that, if nothing else. After all, who is lining up to speak at Brady Campaign events? And who had to go through all the trouble of creating a fake grassroots group that appears pro-gun to endorse Democrats?
McCain is far from perfect. Hell, guns aside, conservatives are not happy:
We should probably consider ourselves lucky, because McCain is giving us a taste of what’s going to happen when he gets to the White House. This, in other words, is what is in store for us conservatives: daily disappointments, frequent betrayals, and constant regret for having voted for him.
Well, that’s what we’ve been getting for the last eight years anyway. So, I don’t exactly understand why I should be that much more pissed about it now.
Meanwhile, Robb notes the Democrats are having similar issues:
Over the past few weeks, I’ve gotten quite an earful on the upcoming elections and it pains me to say even the Democrats don’t appear to be happy with their choices. Many of them are talking about voting McCain since Hillary! and Barrack Whatchootalkinaboutwillis Obama do not represent their views. There’s the typical “If my candidate doesn’t get the nod I’m voting McCain” shtick, but there’s a lot of general unhappiness with both of them overall.
Could be. But conservatives are doing it too. This morning’s local talk radio host asked for a McCain supporter to call. The host stipulated he wanted a real supporter and not just someone who was going to hold their nose and vote; nor did he want someone who was voting against the Democrats. He wanted and honest to God McCain supporter.
For the 35 minutes I listened, one guy called in and he wasn’t convincing. He talked entirely about McCain’s military record and said not one word about his policy positions.
Facts are that our current political system just generates shitty candidates. And we have to deal with that.
So, lost in all the outrage over being called bitter by Barack Rock to the Planet Rock Don’t Stop Obama, we missed out on the fact he supposedly gave us gun owners props just hours before:
“We need sensible gun laws,” said the Senator. “I just got back from Montana where just about everyone has guns. In that culture, fathers and sons bond over hunting. You can’t take that away from rural America. But the inner city is different, and we should tighten the laws on gun purchases and close the loopholes in gun show sales to unscrupulous buyers. The gun control people and the right to bear arms people are talking past each other about disconnected topics.”
I was unaware that there was an inner city exemption to the right to bear arms. Who knew? And isn’t that kinda, you know, racist?
Stephen Colbert to Paul Helmke: Name a situation where you don’t need a gun.
That’s how many members The American Hunters and Shooters Association is claiming in this article where NRA members are called terrorists.
I dunno if terrorist is a step up from whacko and extremist.
So tell me Paul, which presidential candidates are lining up to speak at your events?
Received via email in answer to prior questions about whether you could carry while McCain was there:
This came down from the Secret Service–it was not our call (nor McCain’s).
NOTICE: By mandate of the U. S. Secret Service, no firearms will be allowed in Hall A of the Kentucky Exposition Center, the location of the Celebration of American Values Leadership Forum, on Friday, May 16. Please be prepared to go through security screening to enter the venue. We look forward to seeing you at this outstanding event!
If you can post at all, we’re trying to alert everyone so people aren’t caught off-guard.
NRA’s opposition is misguided
Requiring the reporting of lost guns would hurt only criminals.
You see, your bill is just stupid. It puts a burden on a gun owner where one did not exist before. Your bill merely has potential to turn the law-abiding into criminals and nothing more. Try a bill that targets those who break the law not those who abide by it.
And your bill won’t accomplish anything.
With both contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination evading the gun control issue as if it were sniper fire, you couldn’t blame gun control advocates for feeling bitter. Yet Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence–the pro-gun control counterweight to the National Rifle Association–says Obama and Clinton are “coming fairly close to delivering the message we’d like.” On licensing and registering guns, Helmke says, they are “being realistic” in recognizing “there’s no support for pushing that forward at this stage.” His thoughts on the candidates’ ducking questions on the D.C. gun ban? “They’re politicians, and most politicians on tough calls do not answer.”
The reason Helmke doesn’t feel abandoned on licensing, registration, and the D.C. gun ban is that the Brady Campaign has shelved those goals, in favor of a more modest, incrementalist strategy. Though licensing and registration remain official Brady Campaign policy, Helmke says he hasn’t even talked about them with anyone on staff since he became president in 2006.
And by shelved, he means given up.
Even when you go out of your way to cooperate with them, they’ll still throw you under the bus.
Oh, yeah, we spent it all on an armored personnel carrier for Dellview, North Carolina.
Violent crime has increased in some cities in recent years in part because local police are too cash-strapped to fight it, the ATF chief said Monday.
The comments by Michael J. Sullivan, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, echo pleas by mayors across the country for more federal dollars to combat crime.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Sullivan called battling violent crime the No. 1 priority of ATF and said the agency is trying to help cities with federal task forces and technology.
And that is why ATF is targeting gun dealers who make clerical mistakes on onerous government forms; shutting down dealers who acted in good faith on ATF’s written opinion that products were lawful; and prosecuting people whose firearms malfunction.
140+ Year Old Cannonball Kills Civil War Collector
Update: Aunt B. has an open letter to gun nuts:
Why would he have been trying to “restore” something he surely should have called the bomb squad in to deal with?
I dunno. Probably the same reason I rewired Junior’s little riding car so it goes faster. Because we can.
If you’re gonna be speaking at the NRA convention, you probably shouldn’t joke about shooting people.
Good:
A police officer does not have the authority to arrest someone for refusing to identify himself when he is not suspected of committing a crime, a federal appeals panel ruled Friday.
They continue to get a bit too acclimated to civilization. Glenn notes a kid in California was attacked by a coyote. Says Glenn:
And the advice from experts in the article is stupid: “Authorities dissuade people from hunting renegade coyotes themselves and suggest that they instead make noise or throw objects to scare them from neighborhoods.”
I dunno, if you’re making the noise with one of these, that’s fine advice.
Though the one I shot behind my house met his demise via Ruger 10/22. He wasn’t too far away and a 40 grain to the brain won’t spook your neighbors.
Hey, you know what would stop a guy who has been arrested 13 times for illegally carrying a gun from shooting someone? One more gun law, of course!
I mean, we got all these other laws they’re breaking but they will not break that one!
I’ve been to everyone’s Avon-type tupperware-style parties, purse parties, clothing parties, boutique parties and I felt like why not have a self-defence party? Why not have a Taser party, because without self-defence you won’t have any of the other stuff.
Well, my preference would be for them to get some more tactical Tupperware.
The bill in TN banning drinking in vehicles by passengers has been killed. I wonder if the next version will contain a limousine loophole too?
So, a couple of morons decide to clean weapons over a bucket of beer. A toddler winds up getting shot. Good thing for the guys involved they were police officers or they would have been charged with a crime. Up next, a non police officer stupidly leaves his weapon where is kid can find it. Kid shoots the other kid. He was arrested after the funeral.
And it begs the question that Tam asked so eloquently:
Something tells me, however, that this was the kind of guy who didn’t put covers on the electical (sic) outlets. Or store dangerous chemicals in safe places. Or cook on the stove with the pot handles turned inwards. And if the child had been electrocuted, or drank a tall frosty glass of Drano, or died from severe burns after wearing a pot of boiling Ramen for a hat, would he still be free to get a chance to contribute to the death of another one of his children while we all shook our heads at the fateful “accident”? Are some kinds of negligence more heinous than others?
Of course it’s more heinous! It involved a gun!
Update: And, yes, I’m fully aware that the second is skewed by the fact the child died. However, drinking beer and shooting someone seems far more negligent than leaving a weapon out.
Lawyers for Mayor Bloomberg are asking a judge to ban any reference to the Second Amendment during the upcoming trial of a gun shop owner who was sued by the city.
I wonder why. And:
“Apparently Mayor Bloomberg has a problem with both the First and the Second amendments,” Lawrence Keane, the general counsel of a firearms industry association, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, said.
GunPundit has a correction to the RTC data from the other day. Same trend, though.
Our side corrects their mistakes.
When I first read this article, the ending was quoting the guy saying something like In Texas, we know the best way to fight crime is to shoot back. Or some such. Now, it’s gone. Odd.
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