Hillary Opposes Carry Licenses, Supports Drivers Licenses For Illegals

This was cross posted to some other lists, but bears repeating. Hillary Clinton, presidential frontrunner among the democrats, opposes carry licenses. But she is in favor of driver's licenses for illegal aliens. Read what CCRKBA has to say about it.

No Surprise Here: Harvard Study Shows Media Favors Dems

There are a lot of democrat presidential hopefuls who don't like gun ownership. And while more republicans are the friends of firearms owners, unfortunately, there are a handful of GOP presidential hopefuls who are squishy on the subject. Plus, the media historically is the anti-gun politician's handmaiden. These are all facts.

If you ever had a doubt that the media is fair and balanced when it comes to coverage of republicans vs. democrats, the debate is over. Harvard did a study. The media favors the dems. End of discussion. Read it here.

Oops! Contrary To Anti Rhetoric, Guns Aren't The Tool of Choice For Campus Criminals

Very interesting. The Washington Post, quoting from a new FBI study, says knives are the big problem on college campuses.

U. of Delaware Halts Controversial 'Thought Policing' Plan

Officials of the University of Delaware have had second thoughts about their controversial state-sponsored systematic thought reform for incoming students. A very smart move.

Key Hillary Clinton Supporter Says NBCs Russert 'Should Be Shot'

Now I've heard everything! A key supporter of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign said in a conference call that debate moderator and NBC's Meet The Press host Tim Russert "should be shot" for the questions he asked of Ms. Clinton during a debate among democratic hopefuls this week on MSNBC.

Second Amendment Foundation Founder Alan Gottlieb has the following to say about the statement:

“Incredible. This unidentified supporter of candidate Clinton – whose extreme anti-gun record is well known – would misuse a firearm to silence a journalist, simply because he did his job and put a politician on the spot with her own words. What a remarkable comment to come from the mouth of someone who is most likely an ardent supporter of restrictive gun laws.

“The most telling thing about Youngman’s revelation,” he added, “is that the woman didn’t immediately withdraw the suggestion, she merely admitted that she shouldn’t be talking about murdering Mr. Russert in a public forum. Perhaps Mrs. Clinton’s attitudes about private firearms ownership are based on her knowledge of her own supporters, at least one of whom probably should never be allowed near a firearm, especially if she is anywhere near Tim Russert!

“Frankly,” Gottlieb said, “we are more disappointed than surprised at this remark, because it has long been a trademark of the so-called ‘progressive Left’ that it not only is intolerant of the Second Amendment right of the people to keep and bear arms, it has zero tolerance for opinions and news with which it disagrees. And these are the people supporting Hillary Clinton. “Candidates for high public office, and especially the presidency, will occasionally stumble,” Gottlieb said. “Ultimately, they will stand or fall on their own words and beliefs, and whether their supporters like it or not, it is the duty of journalists like Tim Russert to bring out the best, and sometimes the worst, from a politician. That’s what the First Amendment is all about. He should get a medal for that, not a bullet.”

I concur. This is the first time Mrs. Bill Clinton has been asked serious questions, the first time journalists weren't lobbing "softball" inquiries at her and letting her get away with rehearsed responses that don't answer the question. What's more, I'm fascinated that one of these key supporters (likely a large contributor whom they want to keep happy so the flow of money will keep rolling in) of the party that is doing everything it can to do away with private ownership of firearms, calling them the root of violence, is advocating that a high-profile journalist be shot. The people a politician surrounds him -- or her -- self with, says alot about the candidate, doesn't it?

'Cutting To The Chase' in 1800s America

When you look at the sniping among Presidential candidates, particularly among those who overtly or quietly have designs on every American's Second Amendment rights, it is insightful to look back at politicos from a different day and age. Back then, we had real statesmen in office.

"When Andrew Johnson ran for Senate in 1855 he had heard that his life had been threatened at an upcoming appearance. When he took the podium he pulled out a pistol and laid it on the table in front of him. 'Fellow citizens,' he said, 'I have been informed that part of the business to be transacted on the present occasion is the assassination of the individual who now has the honor of addressing you. I beg respectfully to propose that this be the first business in order. Therefore, if any man has come here tonight for the purpose indicated, I do not say to him, let him speak, but let him shoot.'

"In those days we elected a higher type of man."

-- Col. Jeff Cooper

Paul Tibbets Dies At Age 92

Paul Tibbets Jr., the pilot who dropped the first atomic bomb, died this morning at his east Columbus home. A long-time Central Ohio resident, and a vocal Second Amendment supporter, Col. Tibbets was a fascinating man. I had a chance to visit with the 92-year-old gentleman last winter when he attended a PRO Gun Show in Columbus, and signed autographs for attendees. He had brought posters and books with him. He was supposed to be on hand for three to four hours. He ended up staying more than six hours due to the growing throng of people who wanted to meet him, shake his hand, and perhaps have their photograph taken with this individual they had only read about in history books.

People will long be divided on the actions of the U.S. that day in the skies over Hiroshima, Japan. In my humble opinion, Col. Tibbets' work and actions, and the actions of his crew, saved the life of my father, Eldon Greer, a medic with the 96th Infantry Division. Dad and the other boys in his division had seen horrific fighting during spearhead landings on Leyte Gulf and Okinawa. The 96th, like many other Infantry and Marine divisions, was slated for deployment to invade the home island of Japan. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended the war, and the need to invade the main island -- a plan that U.S. military and government leaders had predicted would result in a catastrophic loss of life to American G.I.s and Japanese civilians.

Tibbets, who left the service as a brigadier general, lived a quiet life after retirement from Executive Jet Aviation (now NetJets). Most people who passed him in the grocery had no idea who he was, and he wanted it that way.

I met and visited with Col. Tibbets while he took a break from signing books during the PRO show. He was a very likeable individual, much like anyone's grandpa. I had to thank him for his service for, perhaps, a selfish reason. I told him that I probably would not be on this Earth had it not been for his actions on that historic day in 1945. Then I told him where my dad had served, and thanked him again. Stammering, I was in awe of this man sitting behind the table. A simple man, a proud man, he looked directly into my eyes, put his hand on my shoulder, smiled and calmly replied, "I would do it again if I were asked to." His granddaughter, sitting next to him, smiled. She had surely heard this kind of conversation before. But he treated our conversation like it was the first time he had heard it. Many American men and women born in the baby boom years owe their existence to this very ordinary individual, who performed an extraordinary feat. Yet to hear him describe it, it was one of the most boring missions he ever flew. Boring or not, the mission of the Enola Gay flew this gentle man and his crew into the history books forever.

Col. Tibbets, wherever you are, I salute you one final time, and extend a heartfelt thank you for your service.

MEDIA COVERAGE: Read a story of Tibbets' passing and his life here. A story from the Associated Press in 2005, regarding the restoration of the Enola Gay, can be read here. WBNS 10tv in Columbus has one of the last video interviews with Col. Tibbets. Visit CNN's story on Tibbets' passing. Click here to visit the official Enola Gay website. In 2002, the UK's Guardian newspaper interviewed Tibbets for an anniversary story on the Hiroshima bombing. Former Chicago Tribune columnist, and Bexley, Ohio native, Bob Greene, spent a lot of time with Tibbets in the late 1990s as Greene prepared to write a book about his own father. Here is a CNN review of the book, "Duty: A Father, His Son and the Man Who Won The War." Retired Columbus Dispatch columnist Mike Harden talks to Tibbets' widow, Andrea, and looks back at the pilot's life of no regrets.

Anti-Gun Bias Aside, Reporters Simply Don't Know Firearms

Joe Tartaro, editor of the New Gun Week, has a wonderfully written guest editorial in the Hawaii Reporter about not just the anti-gun bias of most of the media, but the fact that reporters routinely report on a subject they know very little about. As a recovering print journalist, I wholeheartedly agree.