Important Stuff -- Or Not: Running Gun Battle

Sunday, March 25, 2007

Running Gun Battle

The dust-up between gun owners and the Roanoke times here in Virginia has become a national story. CNN's Kyung Lah (whoever that is) has done an interview with Philip Van Cleave, the president of the Virginia Citizen's Defense League, on the Roanoke Time's publishing of the names and addresses of all the people in Virginia who have concealed carry permits. Lah is also going to interview a parole officer who had THREE parolees show up at his residence -- one while only his wife and child were at home! All three admitted to getting his address from the list published on the Internet by the Roanoke Times. The interview is scheduled to air on Paula Zahn's show at 8 pm Monday. It should be interesting to see if CNN gives this story a fair shake. I'll TiVO it so I can fast-forward through the rest of the show. Both the Roanoke Times management and Christian Trejbal (the columnist who obtained and helped publish the concealed carry holder list) refused to be interviewed for the story.

3 comments:

DAKOTARANGER said...: I wonder if there isn't some legal remedy against the paper for the violation of the 'rigbt to privacy.' I'm surprised that CNN is running with that story, it's a good thing they are, just surprised.; 5:00 AM
Lone Ranger said...: The information is a matter of public record, but people have to go to local courthouses to look it up or request a list from state police. Either method could help incriminate someone if they used the information to do violence. I'm hoping they do away with the need for permits entirely like they have in Vermont. That will guarantee privacy and give true meaning to the right to keep and bear arms.

As for CNN, I'll have to see the story before I give them any benefit of the doubt. There are any number of ways this could distort the facts.; 5:39 AM
Tonto said...: You know some psycho bothered to go the DMV and get Rebecca Schaeffer's address. She was an actress on a TV show with Pam Dawber in the late 80s. She was engaged to a director.

He drove over there ten minutes from my own house and shot her in the doorway when she came to answer in the middle of the day.

NOW TELL ME SOME BUNNYHUGGER WOULDN'T BOTHER TO GO AND DO THAT?

They changed the law here that you can't give info anymore to the public at the DMV after that. So to publish the info for something stupid like this is ridiculous. To allow this info to be accessible to the public in any form is asking for trouble.; 11:08 AM

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1. Hate makes people stoopid.

2. There is nothing so impenetrable as a closed mind.

3. A stupid person is not someone who can't learn, but someone who refuses to learn.

4. It is a small mind that has no room for God.

5. You can take Stalin out of the gene pool, but you can't take Stalinism out of liberals.

6. The best way to sabotage a bad plan is to follow it to the letter.

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11. To express righteous indignation, one must first be righteous. And that's a label that doesn't stick to liberals.

12. Profanity is ignorance made audible.

13. An open mind is a liberal's worst enemy.

14. Paternalism is the purest form of racism.

15. People who bend the truth, usually bend it in their favor.

16. If you always stand in opposition to liberalism, you will never be wrong.

18. Life is simple. People who make it complicated usually have an agenda.

19. Getting your news from the corrupt, liberal media is like sticking your head in the sand, except you don't get grit in your teeth.

20. Liberals' emotional development stops at the age of 16.

21. To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.

22. Idealism seldom matches up with reality.

23. Those who don't hate communism have never lived it.

24. This was a much more civil country when men walked about heavily armed.

25. This economy will never heal as long as Obama keeps picking at the scab.

26. Liberals don't think outside the box; they ARE the box.

27. You cannot change the hearts and minds of liberals, because they possess neither.

28. There is no such thing as a kind liberal.

29. Reading Democratic Party platforms is like reading the history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in this country.

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Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've been throwing out little self-evident truths that seem to have no exceptions that prove the rule. I've made a list of some of them and will add to it as I remember them or make up more. Most of this list I've come up with myself. A few I've borrowed from others.

1. Always expect the worst from a liberal and you will never be surprised.

2. Never try to reason with a liberal. They disregard any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.

3. You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse conservatives of doing.

4. Liberals don't debate, they argue.

5. The only standards liberals have are double standards.

6. Liberals feel, conservatives think.

7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

8. Liberals cannot be embarrassed. They lack the gene to blush.

9. The Liberal Golden Rule is, "Do unto others but scream bloody murder if they do unto you."

10. Liberals don't have leaders, they have demi-gods.

11. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would be conservatives.

12. A liberal's business is nobody's business, but everyone's business is a liberal's business.

13. Liberals have an inflated sense of self-worth. They are like house flies that criticize the air-worthiness of a Stealth fighter. (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, ad infinitum are morons.)

14. Liberals lack a sixth sense that conservatives have in abundance -- common sense.

15. Liberals never stop hating.

16. There are only two types of liberals -- the deceivers and the deceived. The difficulty is telling them apart.

17. Every time liberals get on their high horse, they get bucked off.

18. Liberal programs are so wonderful that they have to be forced on people.

19. Liberals always choke on their own medicine.

20. When given a moral choice, liberals always come down on the wrong side of the fence.

21. The only way liberals can build themselves up is by tearing others down.

22. Liberals not only refuse to learn from their mistakes, they refuse to admit them.

23. Liberals have only two political positions -- blind devotion and blind hatred.

24. Liberals are incapable of attacking the message, so they always attack the messenger.

25. Liberal diversity is only skin deep.