Alan Gottlieb debates MSNBC anti-gunners

Our friend Alan Gottlieb talks to MSNBC.

NRA’s Anti-Dick Lugar Ad

Indiana Senate TV AD “Change”

Some things shouldn’t change. Like our Indiana heritage and values. Our pride in conservation and stewardship of the land. And the protection of our Second Amendment and hunting rights. We pass them from generation to generation, taking pride in our traditions.

But over his 36 years in Washington, Dick Lugar HAS changed…away from our shared values. He claimed to be a strong supporter of our rights when he first came to Washington. Now, he votes for gun bans (Senate Vote 375, 11/17/1993, Senate Vote 24, 03/02/2004). He’s voted for a hunting ban (Vote 87, 4/12/1994). And he’s voted against strengthening your right to defend yourself when you’re traveling away from home. (Vote 237, 7/22/2009). He also voted to confirm both of Barack Obama’s anti-gun nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court. (Vote 262, 8/6/2009 and Vote 229, 8/5/2010). He’s become the only Republican candidate in Indiana with an “F” rating from the NRA.

NRA: Obama’s Gun Boom

Cam Edwards talks to CJ Ciaramella from The Washington Free Beacon

John Lott: There’s no question that the media has pushed the Martin story.

Writing for FoxNews last week, John Lott made one thing clear:

There’s no question that the media has pushed the Martin story.

John Lott is one of the few writers who has noted that President Obama and the Democrats are using this as a rallying cry for gun control.

Lott offered this thought:

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NY Times Takes Aim Again at Another State’s Laws

The New York Times editors once again showed that they don’t know the America past the Hudson River last week in an editorial titled, “The Law of the Gun in Florida.” The piece noted:

Florida leads the pack in passing bills written by the gun lobby that block any sensible attempt to control the purchase and use of firearms.

We’re not sure what they mean by “sensible,” except that to many in the mainstream media, the only sensible “control” is a complete ban on guns. It is also interesting that the “gun lobby” – not actual gun owners – seems to be the blamed time and time again by the MSM.

NY Times Opinion: Pity the Poor Gun Lobby

The New York Times has never been a friend to firearms, or firearms owners, but this week ran an op-ed titled, “Pity the Poor Gun Lobby.” Of course they were being ironic or sarcastic with this headline. The piece noted:

I am thinking in particular of the National Rifle Association. These people are really in desperate straits. The state legislatures are almost all in session, but some of them have already pushed the gun-owner-rights issue about as far as it can go. You can only legalize carrying a concealed weapon in church once.

The piece then offers this passage:

Since no amount of gun-related tragedy seems sufficient to get state lawmakers to dial back on their firearms-friendly laws, we need to find a different approach, or face a future in which citizens of some states are required to carry a weapon with them at all times except when bathing.

I am thinking that the best solution for all concerned would be a strict national gun-control law that makes it very difficult to get a concealed weapons permit, permits gun dealers to sell only one handgun per individual per year, and makes it illegal for even permit holders to keep handguns anywhere but their home, store or car glove compartment unless they are employed in the security business.

The N.R.A. would have a whole new lease on life, and the donations from the gun industry would come flooding in. Legislators in red states would be kept out of other mischief for a decade, while they devoted their entire careers to passing new gun-friendly laws. And it’s very possible that the purple states would find that they like the new order of things just fine. Everybody wins!

Yes, this is an op-ed and is opinion based. It is also semi-satirical, which we understand. But we do wonder if anyone – even the most die-hard anti-gun zealot – can really believe that a national gun-control law could ever work?

But we also realize as with so many, especially those liberals in the big cities like New York, whether this isn’t made into a political issue by the few? What we mean is that this op-ed tries to suggest that so-called Blue (liberal or Democrat) would embrace gun control, while Red (conservative or Republican) states would not. And this is why we wonder about how those in the Big Apple see the rest of the country.

David Codrea: Will Indiana Gun Owners Let GOP Establishment Foist Lugar On Us All Again?

From our friend David Codrea:

OpEd News Slams Religion and Guns

This week OpEd News twice insulted gun owners, and in the second piece also took aim at Christians. First it offered a quote – mostly out of context – from Mark Twain:

Two or three centuries from now it will be recognized that all the competent killers are Christians; then the pagan world will go to school to the Christian – not to acquire his religion, but his guns. – Young Satan, from Mark Twain’s The Mysterious Stranger

Then it offered this passage:

A quick rundown of the GOP and Libertarian candidates running for President shows that all of the frontrunners except Romney have opposed gun control laws. On the other side, Obama supports the Second Amendment with a caveat about individual ownership:

OK, we all knew it existed, that strong link between the NRA and the Christian Right, but has it gotten stronger? Let’s put it this way: it’s as strong as it ever was.

As we’ve been saying, let’s make this election about gun control and see who comes out on top!

Election 2012: NRA Endorses Richard Mourdock

Yesterday the National Rifle Association officially endorsed Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock over current Sen. Dick Lugar. The NRA blasted Lugar for his “seeming contempt for gun owners in Indiana.”

This comes as several left-leaning media outlets have questions the “myth” of the NRA. Now we think we’ll see whether the NRA members, and more importantly gun owners and Second Amendment supporters, will voice their opinion at the ballot box.

Another Editorial Tries to Paint Obama as Almost Pro Gun

This week Rick Holmes, opinion editor of MetroWest Daily offered an editorial for Wicked Local titled, “Surging gun sales driven by paranoia about Barack Obama.” The headline alone is a bit unfair and biased. For one thing, there are a number of factors as to why gun sales are up.

While much of it has to do with fears of a second term for President Obama, to call it “paranoia” sounds a bit suspicious itself. But the editorial noted:

Hysteria fires up the base and keeps the donations flowing in to the NRA. But LaPierre, who has been a power player in Washington for a generation, surely doesn’t believe such hogwash.

The reason Obama hasn’t pushed any gun control legislation is that LaPierre’s NRA has a lock on both houses of Congress. The Supreme Court has been knocking down gun control laws, building a more gunowner-friendly interpretation of the Second Amendment. Obama couldn’t “excise it” from the Constitution if he wanted to, which he doesn’t.

Is it really accurate to say that the NRA has a “lock on both houses of Congress,” because last time we checked it was still a Democrat controlled Senate – and even the pro-gun Democrats don’t offer enough sway? Likewise, the Supreme Court hasn’t been “knocking down” gun control laws as much as pushing for Second Amendment rights.

But this notion that Obama doesn’t want gun control. Holmes makes his point that people have the power of the vote, but let’s not forget that President Obama said he was working on gun control, “but under the radar,” nor the State Department stopping the re-importation of M1 rifles from South Korea. Likewise, Obama did hold a White House summit for reasonable gun control.

So maybe there is a reason to be fearful of a second term.

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