M-Taliesin - considering the sad news of the day and your location, how much grief have the local media been giving gun-owners out there?
Howdy Hunter!
Sorry for the lengthy delay. Ive been pretty busy out here in Colorado, and much of it involved reporting events on our state board as they unfolded. Even got myself quoted by USA Today! I figured somebody needed to get something positive into the press about OC, and I tried.
Anyhow, the press has been mostly neutural. Local media hasn't been an issue to fret about.
What has been unwelcome by OC'ers is Jesse Jackson Jr. coming out here to stump for gun control. Considering he is from a city with a huge crime problem where citizens are denied the right to carry is beyond ironic. But there it is, so what can one do with it?
Another unwelcome bit of nonsense came from a couple of our representatives of federal government such as congressman Ed Perlmutter who would like to do another assault weapons ban. Sure, why not? The last one worked out so very well, except it didn't. Diane Digette is another who would like to get more restrictive gun control. I anticipate they'll have trouble with electile dysfunction, and likely discover they should have exercise more mouth control before assaulting citizen rights.
In direct contrast to what such leaders may think about guns, sales of firearms have increased 41 percent in the days immediately following the Midnight Movie Massacre!
Gun shops are reporting brisk sales, CBI/FBI background checks are streaming in at a much higher rate than in weeks previous, and instructors are getting overwhelmed by the number of folks asking for CCW classes and firearms training.
It is much less about what media types think, or social movement gurus feel, or what elected officals believe (they're supposed to represent their constituents, right?)
The people are speaking much louder than they, and the message is clear. Citizens of Colorado are arming up. The citizens of Colorado 'get it'. They are starting to understand that we already have gun laws on the books. It didn't save 12 fellow citizens on 7/20. We have laws prohibiting attempted murder, murder in the 1st degree, assault with a deadly weapon and a ton of others. Those laws did not deter the shooter. Nor would any additional laws that would make more difficult for law abiding citizens to defend themselves against someone of this ilk.
When somebody has a motor vehicle accident, doing property damage or causing injury or death, we don't blame the car. We don't seek a motor vehicle ban, we don't try to determine what vehicles are most likely involved in accidents and seek to control them, we hold the driver directly responsible and liable. So considering this as simili, why do some outfits attack guns for what some psychotic did? The gun wasn't responsible, it was the man who used it.
Anyhow, I will get off my soap box, and just say our local media has been reasonably even-handed.
Not so the shills of gun control, who are currently working to end their relevance as the people figure out they are responsible for their own safety and self defense. We look forward to the day that some of our elected representatives are trying to find work in the private sector as our citizens speak their minds at the polls just as loudly as they have expressed their sentiments at the gun shops.
Thanks for the question, but I now return you to our regularly scheduled topic.
Blessings,
M-Taliesin