Gun-Rights Rallies Held This Past Weekend

We’re happy to report that the mainstream media can’t ignore the growing gun-rights movement in this country. Here is a recap of some articles (among many others) that appeared this weekend:

• The Maine Sunday Herald noted “Pro-gun rally shines light on liberal laws“
• The Washington Post reported, “Gun-rights advocates gather in Va. and D.C. to celebrate ‘historic moment’“
• The Los Angeles Times reported, “Gun rights supporters rally near Capitol“
• NPR offered “Gun Rights Fans Rally In DC, VA, Some Bearing Arms“

Of course not all of this reporting was free of anti-gun bias, but it is about time that these events are being reported.

WaPo Predicts Wild West in Virginia

How would more gun-sales increase crime? That’s the question we put to The Washington Post, which in an editorial noted this week that “If Virginia lifts gun-buying limit, get ready for mayhem.”

This is true anti-gun bias front and center! Why should law-abiding gun owners suffer, especially when no criminal is going to honor the law?

Virginia Looks to Over Turn One-Gun-A-Month

The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported last week that the Virginia House Committee on Militia Police and Public Safety voted 15-6 to eliminate a law that only allowed residents to purchase “one-gun-a-month.” This was specifically direct towards handguns. While the article was largely unbiased, the comments by former Governor L. Douglas Wilder, a Democrat who signed the bill into law in 1993, were less biased:

 ”In my conversations with the people across the state, I have not encountered anyone who has listed as their priority the need for them to have more handguns.”

 Might we suggest Mr. Wilder you talk to more people, such as collectors and sport shooters!

With Off-Year Elections Tilting Right, Is Obama’s Eye Off Gun Owners?

With crushing defeats for the democratic party in the New Jersey and Virginia governors races, resistance by members of their own party towards health care and Cap-In-Trade legislation plus a deepening burden of the growing economic malaise, the Obama administration appears not to have gun owners in their sights with any new or significant anti-gun legislation. Obama has clearly demonstrated that he and his administration live and govern by poll results and recently those once positive numbers have started to tank.

In the back rooms of the White House, Obamaites sweat it out as they work to sanitize every facet of information clean of any culpability by the President as they begin to realize and believe that not all Americans are content to behave like sheep.

This administration, it’s leader and it’s entourage, were highly touted as “setting a new standard” for communication, transparency, openness and non-partisan governance. To that end they have certainly lowered the bar on almost every facet of Presidential decorum, with Obama leading perhaps the most corrupt batch of liberal politicians this nation has witnessed in power. On many accounts, Obama’s administration and his legion of advisors, appear more like a virtual amateur hour of blatant partisan extremists. Composted of liberals, socialists, anarchists, communists and “czars” Obama’s inner circle is filled with people who probably couldn’t organize a trip to the circus let alone manage the health care or be trusted to provide for the defense of 300 million people.

The administration has problems and the November 3rd election is the proof. With that in mind, the administration is going to tread carefully and and be cautious of the battles it wishes to wage. With political storm clouds swelling on the horizon in the form of a republican resurgence, it’s doubtful that the democrats as a party, the President included, would attempt any major anti-gun legislation prior to the 2010 mid-term elections.

I wonder what FT readers think? Give us your two cents.

NY Times Weighs in on Virginia Gun Laws

The first question that comes to my mind, and hopefully every single voter in Virginia regardless of who they are voting for, is why is The New York Times running an editorial on gun laws in Virginia? Of course the Old Gray Lady as it is known in New York City – which begs the second question why won’t this old lady retire to Florida already – doesn’t meet a chance to cite its anti-firearm rhetoric:

“But a new poll for The Virginian-Pilot by Christopher Newport University found that 8 out of every 10 likely voters want to end the practice of allowing unlicensed dealers at ’sportsmen’ shows to sell guns wholesale outside the laws that mandate a background check of purchasers.”

By ’sportsman’ shows, we’ll take it that they mean gun shows? But I would ask the editors at the old lady why they think law abiding citizens in any state, but especially a state other than New York, should have to be licensed to sell their personal property?

This is something that the mainstream media fails to address? What’s next, you’ll need a license to sell your couch on Craigslist? Better still, maybe paperboys should have to obtain licenses to deliver the newspapers on their bikes.

Pen is Mightier Than the Sword Again

Read this headline:

“Tighten gun rules, most Virginians say in poll” Read more