McCain Sees 'Right-of-Center' Nation

Updated: Monday, May 19, 2008, 3:24 pm -- Gun Owners of America has issued a statement regarding John McCain in light of his recent speech to members of the National Rifle Association, and how the Arizona senator is trying to "come home" to the Second Amendment community.

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John McCain's advisers are saying he sees a "right-of-center" nation, and that he will feel emboldened to go after Barack Obama's policies, proposals and concepts without fear of stepping over too many lines.

"McCain is taking a campaign approach unlike Bush's elections in 2000 and 2004, which emphasized turning out the party's base. Rather, McCain has started shifting to the electorate's center, a recognition of his ideological reach as well as the need to capture swing voters against an opponent who also attracts independents. He hopes his crusade against climate change - an issue that appeals to people of all stripes - will help him build a winning coalition of voters. To do so, McCain is targeting traditional swing voting groups, like independents and Catholics, as well as others where Obama has shown weakness in the primaries, among them conservative-leaning so-called Reagan Democrats, blue-collar whites, Jews and Hispanics."

I just want to make sure Mr. McCain understands that a mother's firearms rights, and her rights to protect herself and her children from vermin of the two- and four-legged variety, are not bargaining chips he can fritter away with abandon in order to soothe a divided nation.

No, no, no. Not now. Not ever.

California Shooting Leaves Media Debating Whom To Credit For Subduing Attacker

Hmmm . . .

Is this a case of the legacy media not wanting to suggest that regular citizens should be doing "the right thing?" That only a LEO should be going after bad guys?

This statement is found in one part of the story:

"Bystanders tackled the man and held him until he was taken into police custody, she said."

and then you have this:

"He was tackled by an off-duty Burbank police officer" and taken into custody by Los Angeles police, she said."

See the contradiction? We have seen this type of media coverage time and time again when it comes to school or church shootings. The reality is that private citizens take charge. But the media gets ahold of it and credits law enforcement for taking action. We saw it at the Colorado church shooting several months, ago; we have seen it with school shootings where teachers ran to their cars to get their firearms (CCW holders whom are prohibited by law from keeping their firearm inside the school to protect children) and put an end to dangerous situations, but police were credited for subduing the bad guys.

So do we have the same thing here? And some working slipped through copying editing and wound up in the paper?

IMHO, we should be tipping our hats to the members of the church congregation in Granada Hills, Calif. who refused to become victims and stood up to this nut-job, even if he was packing a rifle.

Comedian Chris Rock On Gun Control

Mr. Rock suggests that "bullets" be made to cost $5,000. That way, there would be no more "innocent bystanders."

Clever humor for the open-minded.

A Different Kind of Political Outreach

The Hamilton County, Ohio Republican Party plans to sponsor a class for people to qualify for a permit to carry a concealed weapon, the party chairman said last week.

The story is found at Associated Press.

The Reason Why High School Soccer is More Dangerous Than The High School Shooting Team

Concussions.


Frankly, I would love to see the injury ratio between people playing competitive soccer vs. people involved in competitive shooting. I would especially love to see that stats at the high school level.


For while soccer and other pounding competitive sports are encouraged, injuries are rampant. But while competitive shooting is incredibly safe, it is demonized at middle and high schools.

For no reason other than political correctness, and irrational fear.


The best line I've ever seen on a sweatshirt? "My daughter participates in an Olympic sport that she can't talk about at school."

If We Go This Route It Is Because We Are A Nation Of Peeping Toms, Not Crime Fighters

"The English have always had a slightly different attitude toward privacy," Saffo said. They've never had a strong a privacy culture as America has had. It is easier for the government to overstep notions of privacy than it would be here, because you have people invoking the Bill of Rights." But Saffo believes that given the right crisis, the United States would eventually accept the technology. "Do not underestimate the psychic shock of the London subway bombings," he said. "We bleat and cry about privacy, but we happily surrender our privacy for the cheapest of coin."

"This week in Washington, D.C., a bill pushed by the city's mayor calling for nearly $1 million in funding for citywide public cameras was voted down by the city council. "People sometimes talk about video surveillance systems as moving forward inexorably in the United States, but we've seen quite a few successful protests."

What is the need? That is the question. Just last week another study came out that says despite the millions of cameras and hundreds of millions in pounds, or euros, spent on such gizmos, crime is steady in Britain. The effort is a bust.

No impact. Get it? So then, what would the reason be to install all these cameras and monitoring equipment?

Voyeurism?

Clement Quits As U.S. Solicitor General

The man in the U.S. Justice Department who made the conflicting argument that the Second Amendment protects an individual right, but that government can regulate that right, has resigned as Solicitor General.

Paul Clement's resignation is effective June 2. He reportedly raised the ire of White House staff, including Vice President Dick Cheney, with his opinion on the District of Columbia v. Heller case, which was argued before the U.S. Supreme Court back in March.

That opinion is expected sometime in July.

Gun Violence Seminar in New York Draws 25

Updated: Monday, May 19, 2008, 2:17 pm -- "Troopergate" in Albany, N.Y. is dominating the headlines there, BTW. More is coming out on disgraced former Gov. Elliot Spitzer, and his use of state troopers to go after political enemies. All while the city where New York's state capitol is houses crumbles, Spitzer was playing political footsie (when he wasn't playing spin the bottle at $2,000 an hour). And yet, someone the powers that be blame guns for all their troubles. Pitiful, just pitiful.

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The voices calling for gun control are few, as evidenced by the turnout at an Albany, N.Y. summit on "gun violence." The Times-Union newspaper has the story.

Interestingly, just a few miles away in Vermont, there is virtually on crime. Why? Because law-abiding Vermont residents, and law-abiding visitors to Vermont, can carry a concealed firearm for their protection with no permits or licenses required.

Yet Albany, just a few miles to the west, has horrendous violent crime.

An armed society is a polite society.