Feel the Evil!

Looks like Robb over at Sharp as a Marble has become significantly more evil recently with the addition of a shiny new EBR (Evil Black Rifle) here, cradled by an EOC (Evil Orange Chair). Here’s a cute shot of one of his daughters modeling the new arrival.

Be careful Robb, she’s gonna want one of her one one of these days! Perhaps something like this?

Congratulations Robb, I hope to soon join the ranks of the EBR owners. We’ll see…

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Media Bias Strikes Again

Yet another biased article, this time from ABC News.

Virginia Tech Gun Dealer Offers Student Discount

Dealer Says Campuses Safer If Students Can Protect Themselves

By MADDY SAUER

The owner of an Internet-based firearms store that sold a gun to Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho says he is now offering a discount for students who want to carry guns on campus to protect themselves. The company, TGSCOM Inc., also sold two 9mm Glock magazines to Steven Kazmierczak, who killed five people at Northern Illinois University earlier this year.

The owner of TGSCOM, Eric Thompson, announced today that for the next two weeks he will sell firearms at cost in the hopes of targeting students who may be on a tight budget. Customers will have over 5,400 different kinds of firearms from which to choose.

“This offer allows students and people who might not have otherwise been able to afford a weapon to purchase one at a hefty discount and at a significant expense to myself,” Thompson told ABCNews.com.

A spokesperson for Virginia Tech said that Thompson’s remarks and offer are “incredibly insensitive to the families of the victims who lost loved ones, and to the injured students still recovering from this horrendous tragedy,” said Larry Hincker, the Associate Vice President for University Relations.

You know what’s really insensitive and offensive Larry, is your continuing insistence that your students remain defenseless even after what transpired on your Utopian campus. Geez, what a bozo.

Gun control advocates also call Thompson’s special offer “shameless”.

“He’s arming the criminals and then telling the rest of us to buy guns so we can protect ourselves from the criminals he’s armed,” said Peter Hamm, communications director for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

While gun control advocates acknowledge that Thompson has a right to make this offer, they say this is yet another example of the gun industry trying to profit from gun violence.

“What this shows is that to the gun industry, gun violence is at best an abstract concept and at worst a business opportunity,” said Josh Sugarmann, the Executive Director of the Violence Policy Center.

“No matter how these products are used against citizens, the answer is always more guns when in fact these problems stem from the fact that there are too many guns out there already,” Sugarmann told ABCNews.com.

He’s arming the criminals? Sure he is Petey. I don’t think many criminals are buying guns from a legitimate business owner who is required by law to do a background check on his customers, and then ships them to a local FFL for pickup. Petey, you’re lying out your ass and you know it. You too Josh. First of all, how is him selling the sidearms at cost making a profit? Apparently Josh is also under the delusion criminals buy their guns from honest business owners. Why do the anti-rights people feel the need to lie to try and make their point? Could it be they know they don’t have a leg to stand on? I’ve been told that if one lies enough, they actually begin to believe the lie, instead of the truth.

There’s more, but it’s basically a rehash of the same anti-rights talking points. They give Thompson a token paragraph or two, but bash him in the end with a sound bite from Petey Hamm and anti-rights bigot Larry Hincker.

Go read, if you have the stomach for it.

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The Latest from the OFF

MEDFORD NEWSPAPER GETS CHL LIST

The Medford Mail Tribune, a newspaper which has repeatedly editorialized against self defense for public employees, has won a court case .pdf to get the names, addresses and occupations of all concealed handgun license holders in Jackson County.

The newspaper demanded this information as part of series of articles attacking Medford teacher Shirley Katz.  Katz, you will remember, sued to be allowed to carry her handgun to work in a Medford school (The Oregon Firearms Educational Foundation is paying Ms. Katz’s legal bills. Her case is currently being appealed.)

Judge Philip Arnold, the same judge who ruled that public employees are not protected by Oregon’s preemption statute, ruled that Bob Hunter, the Tribune’s Editor, has a right to the personal information of CHL holders. The county sheriff, Mike Winters, had refused to turn over the information, citing privacy and safety concerns.

Hunter stated in an article on October 16,2007 “This is information bought and paid for by the public, and the public has a right to it.”

This is, of course, nonsense. Licence holders pay high fees in order to have their backgrounds checked, their pictures taken and their fingerprints placed on file like criminals. The public, (and Bob Hunter) doesn’t contribute a dime.

Hunter and his staff have claimed that they don’t plan to release any names. We wonder then, why he wants them.

If the Medford Mail Tribune does publish the personal information of CHL holders, we will assume that they won’t mind if we publish the home addresses and other information about their staff.

You can contact Hunter by e-mail here bhunter@mailtribune.com or by regular mail and phone here:

Mail Tribune
P.O. Box 1108
111 N. Fir St.
Medford, OR 97501
541-776-4411

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Focus on the Criminal, not the Tool

Here’s some welcome commentary from Charley Reese in the Columbia Tribune.

Let’s focus on the people who kill, not the guns

By CHARLEY REESE

There seems to be more talk every day about gun violence. That is just a prelude to a push for more gun control.

Guns, being inanimate objects, do not cause crime. They are used to facilitate crime. If we are going to prevent crime, we have to deal with causes, not with tools. Cars don’t cause bank robberies. We would think somebody a fool who said he was going to cut down on bank robberies by regulating cars.

Once you attach the crime to the criminal, a whole lot of useful information becomes obvious. Gun violence is not uniformly present in this country. It is concentrated in certain areas and among certain people. A lot of it is related to drug gangs fighting over territory. Why should anyone be surprised by this? What happened during Prohibition? Gangs of bootleggers fought bloody battles for territory and customers.

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Finally, we have to always remember that guns save lives. I don’t know how many people fend off criminals with a firearm. I don’t trust the statistics, which claim there are 700,000 to more than a million instances each year. But I do know it happens because I can see anecdotal evidence in newspaper stories and because common sense tells you that if you are attacked, you are better off being armed than disarmed.

Don’t forget, too, that police, the FBI, the Secret Service, the Capitol Police, U.S. Marshals and sheriffs deputies are all armed with handguns. The next time some anti-gun fanatic tells you that handguns are no good for self-defense, ask the person why so many law-enforcement officers rely on them for self-defense. Unfortunately, we are confronted at times with stupidity, craziness and evil. I don’t know of a better antidote than a .45-caliber bullet. None of us wishes to kill, but if we are forced to choose, most of us would prefer to be sorry rather than dead.

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Poll Results

Based on the latest poll:

55% of voters don’t currently shop at Wal-mart.
30% say they will stop shopping at Wal-mart.
15% of voters indicated they will continue to shop at Wal-mart.

A big thank you for everyone who participated in this poll!

-Yuri

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