If you live in State Senate District 28, which encompasses most of Hancock County, Henry County, and part of Hamilton County, our State Senator Beverly Gard is up for re-election, and is currently facing a Republican challenger for the nomination. Senator Gard received an “A” rating from NRA, and was endorsed by NRA-PVF.
If you’re voting for your gun rights, vote to Senator Gard to ensure that Hoosier gun owners have another friend in the state Senate.
All the anti-gun crowd is saying that we don’t need to have firearms in National Parks as a reaction to the proposed rule change by the Department of the Interior. Because parks are a safe place, where there are no wild animals that would happily kill and eat you. And we certainly don’t have a problem with coyotes attacking people. Except that coyote attacks are on the rise; for example in California a nanny had to save a 14 month old baby from a coyote.
The girl was playing Friday in a sandbox at Alterra Park in Chino Hills in San Bernardino County. Around 10:30 a.m., the caretaker heard screaming and saw a coyote trying to carry the child off in its mouth, officials said.
While this incident did not occur in a National Park, it aptly demonstrates the primary reason that people would want to arm themselves in said parks – defense from wild animals. A coyote is relatively small, but I certainly wouldn’t want to go backpacking in an area with mountain lions, wolves, and bears without some form of personal protection that was more potent than “bear mace”. Which reminds of a joke that I often use to illustrate the need for firearms in national parks:
A hiker is asking a park ranger about what he should do to stay safe from bears in Alaska. The ranger says “Well, some people wear bells to scare the bears off, and other people carry ‘bear pepper-spray’, but the best thing to do is to avoid the bear entirely.”
The hiker asks how you know if there are bears around, and the ranger replies by telling him that you can tell a bear by it’s feces. Confused, the hiker asks how to identify bear feces, and the ranger smiles and says “It smells like pepper and has bells in it.”
Now, that’s obviously a joke, but I could point to hundreds of stories of bear attacks, coyote attacks, and even one or two mountain lion attacks to factually illustrate the point. Note that I’m also not even bringing up defense from bipedal predators, which are dangerous in their own right.
Today’s podcast is covering the Indiana primary, with a focus on the 5th District, 7th District, and the Presidential primary.
We’ll also have a special podcast up tomorrow with more information and coverage of the Indiana primary.
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From AFcom, a user who experienced his S&W revolver lock malfunction, which essentially pwned his gun into a not-so-great club.
This is the malfunction that S&W said wasn’t happening, and that more than a few gun writers dismissed as “the internet”.
I am not knocking S&W revolvers here…but I should also note that I don’t own any “post lock” S&W, and the only revolvers I do own that have locks are Taurus’; the locking system on those is fundamentally different from the S&W system and can’t interfere with the function of the gun on accident.
Inspired by yesterday’s shindig and other events:
AND SO MANY MORE!
Someone in Wal-Mart’s web/legal department seems to be asleep at the wheel. Tell me what you find odd about this listing on Walmart.com for a Winchester shotgun.
I honestly don’t even know where to start – “This product may be mistaken for a firearm”? Uh…isn’t it already a firearm? And “branding in public” may be a crime? I wasn’t aware that people were running around burning “Bar-T” signs into their Winchester shotguns on the streets of LA.
Seriously, if I wasn’t already boycotting Wal-Mart for being in bed with Bloomberg, I’d boycott them for being stupid.
The 7th Congressional District of Indiana is the district that encompasses the bulk of Marion County, and by default most of the Indianapolis Metro area. While the major suburbs of Indianapolis fall into the 5th District, the actual city/county area itself falls into the 7th (which used to be the 10th district).
During my admittedly short time in Indiana, the 7th District has essentially been locked up by the Democrats, being held by Julia Carson until her death in ’07, and then replaced by her grandson in a special election earlier this year. Things have changed a little bit though, as in this past mayoral election, the Democrat incumbent was ousted, and the Democrats lost their majority in the City/County council as well. That wrinkle creates a new dynamic for the 7th District general election, and even more so in the Democrat primary, as the word on the street is that now this district is considered “at risk”.
Looking at the primary, it’s pretty much a total mess. The two front-runners according to the Indy media are Andre Carson, the incumbent and grandson of Julia Carson; and David Orentlicher, who is currently a Indiana General Assembly rep for the 86th House District. Andre won the seat during the special election, which allowed him to serve out the remainder of his grandmother’s term.
Taking a closer look at the candidates, either one of them winning the nomination for the seat will pretty much be a bad deal for Indiana. Andre Carson has endorsed Barack (strike one), voted directly down party lines during his brief tenure in Congress (strike 2), and is also endorsed by former Mayor Bart Peterson (steeeee-rike THUHREEE). Actually, he kind of reminds of Obama in that he doesn’t appear to have any kind of substantiative opinions on anything, and rode his grandmother’s name into Congress.
On the other side of the Democrat D7 primary, we have David Orentlicher, who during his time in the General Assembly has tried to 1) Kill gun shows and 2) overturn Indiana’s no-preemption law so that Marion country could pass gun control laws.
In essence, we have two awful candidates that the Democrat party has produced for the 7th District – I don’t like either of these guys and certainly don’t want them representing my state, even if it’s not my district, in Washington, DC. I will enthusiastically support whomever the Republican party produces to oppose either of these guys.
Yesterday I went to the first roughly organized Indy bloggers meet-up, which was a duce-and-a-half of an experience. In attendance in edition to myself were Roberta, Tam, Og, Old Grouch, Mark Alger, Frank James, and a couple of other folk whose names escape me at the moment.
Tam was right, people say that Knoxville is the center of blogging power, but with the number of Indiana (and one Cincinnati) bloggers that showed up, I would dispute that statement.
We met up at the Broad Ripple Brewpup, I place I’d never been to prior to today, had some scotch pub eggs and a pint of the porter, and generally chatted about everything from guns to politics to the upcoming primary election.
It was neat for me to actually meet Frank W. James, the author of the MP5 book, a copy of which is sitting behind me right now as I write this. Good times were had by all, and we’ll be doing another round up come June, which should include some folks from a bit further away as well.
Also, if any of the folks that were there read this, try and get down to the 2nd Amendment Blog Bash, held in conjunction with the NRA Annual Meetings. You can register for the blog bash at this URL.
The regular podcast has be delayed until Tuesday so we could get some special election coverage in it. We’ll have our regularly scheduled posting on Monday, but the podcast will be up on Tuesday, and then another special election podcast Wednesday morning.
Seriously, don’t miss either of the podcasts this week.
With regards to the common phrase “hard-core”. I have always spelled it as before, using the word “core”, as I took it to mean that someone had a “hard core”, as in the core of their being was hardened.
Today I saw it spelled “hard corps”, using “corps” as in Marine Corps, or Corps of Cadets, which I took to mean a group of hardened individuals.
So I’m wondering which you guys use, or what version of “corps” you’ve associated the word with?