Not Waiting For The Asteroid

18 Replies to “Not Waiting For The Asteroid”

1. What gives these “journalists” the right to violate people’s privacy?
   Just shake one’s head…

2. It’s interesting to read the comments. So many people thought poorly of the Publisher and Editor for apologizing for an attempted thoughtless intrusion on peoples privacy and safety. I thought they did the right thing and handled with humility and a certain amount of grace. Mind you, I think those that think that gun control is other than people control, are sadly misguided sheeple. (Full disclosure)

3. Had he not crawled and begged forgiveness the paper would have been bankrupted.

4. The comments are an absolute hoot, the babies in the journalistic profession soiling their nappies in fright at the thought of the plain people actually standing up to them, and with a credible threat of lethal force to boot. Best laugh I’ve had in ages.
   The publisher, by way of begging for mercy, declared himself and his editor sons of the South. If that’s true they should have known what Ulstermen and their kin in North America do to those who try to stab them in the back.
   Presumably the good sheriff informed the paper that if they wanted records collected in flagrant violation of the rights of freeborn Englishmen he considered himself under no great pressure to investigate the consequences of their stunt when it blew up in their faces—or went off. He quickly proved as well that he had the plain people of North Carolina firmly behind him.
   Amazing how liberals regain their good sense and good manners when there’s a patriot pointing a loaded gun at their temple. Watch and learn, ladies and gentlemen—that’s what I call showing up to riot.

5. “What gives these “journalists” the right to violate people’s privacy?”
   I think it’s more a matter of “progressives” feeling they have the right to violate, your rights with impunity if it feeds their pathalogical need to feel morally superior. They simply know what’s best for you regadless of the damage ir does to you – they are so sure of their correctness they will coerce the state into holding a gun to your temple until you conform to their demands and if the state is eluctant to do so they take to the streets enforcing their will in an ad hoc manner. Remember being a progressive means never having to say you’re wrong/sorry.
   In this case a couple of hick town journos thought they would try out some big city progressivist activism on the locals and they found out in a hurry why “journalistic progressives” are literally restricted to the metropolis’ which sustain their morally confused incivility.

6. I couldn’t help myself and commented over there among the outraged progressives.
   The argument seems to be: the public has a right to know because these are government permits. But how many would argue for a newspaper’s right to publish a list of people on welfare, or users of anti-depressants from government hospitals, or defaulters of government-backed student loans?
   Well, they wouldn’t.
   And I bet none of them have even heard of the federal government’s failure to release emails by EPA officials who were using dummy email addresses to circumvent FOI laws. And when the courts forced them to release the emails, they simply blacked them out.
   What is it with people who can’t think critically? It’s like someone on the Left raises a flag and everyone just goes mindlessly crazy, like kicking an ants nest.

7. You know, its just amazing what people will do when they get hit in the wallet. In this case, abject, pants wetting fear of the immanent destruction of their livelihood has actually made a bunch of media vampires do the right thing.
   Why is there never a stake of holly around when you need one?
   On the bright side, I don’t think that doing the right thing one time in their miserable lives is going to save that paper.

8. Mr(and I use the term lightly) Brown. I want to know how many times you had sex with your wife and/or babysitter. What? Not allowed? Sure is,twit. Time to change your diapers.Oh.And turn off Barney.

9. They (Cherokee Scout paper) wanted to know if there was any hanky panky in granting the permits. “We’ve been told you have to have the right name or know the right person in order to get one…”
   NC is a SHALL ISSUE State! The sheriff has to issue a permit if they are qualified. In other words, either the editor and publisher are grossly ignorant and incompetent; or lying about their reasons for wanting the list.
   By the way, the reason they backed down was probably because almost all their local advertisers told them they were pulling their accounts. —- If it was my paper, I know I’d talk to my car dealer and every other business I frequent about how my future business will go elsewhere if they advertised in that rag. And I do not have a CCW permit, but believe those with them are entitled to privacy, especially those that are vctims of dom violence or have restraining orders against some nut in their life!

10. The apology is irrelevant to me. The “we had no idea the reaction” line says it all. No one espousing the “roots” and “rural upbringing” would have no idea the reaction this would cause, so one of those two things is a flat-out lie.

11. Losers. They should stick to publishing Mohammed cartoons…

12. …the public has a right to know because these are government permits…
    Vehicle license plates are essentially government permits; do we have a right to a database that matches plates to names and addresses? After all, vehicles can be dangerous, particularly in the wrong hands.

13. The whole “sons of the South” thing is a complete red herring. Before I moved to Iowa, I had spent twenty-two years within twenty-five miles of the corner of State and Madison in Chicago and thirty-four years in Silicon Valley. I knew, nonetheless, that it was nobody’s business who was applying for any sort of firearms permit, unless perhaps there had been one issued to somebody who really wasn’t entitled to one, e.g., a convicted felon who was barred from owning a gun by his sentence.

14. The CBC last night: “I work for the CBC in downtown Toronto. I don’t know anyone who owns a gun, which is an icky American thing. But I found some un-Canadian people in London, On who love their guns. Americans!”
    The National’s Nick Purdon meets a man who feels victimized by his love of firearms–and who wants to bring Canada’s gun culture out of the shadows.

15. You know, that publisher did everything but roll over on his back, expose his belly and piss himself.

16. Mississauga Matt: What a great link an so apropos to the issue of media degeneration. Gun owners are just one segment of society which has been stigmatized by endless media misdirection. During the clip, I was gobsmacked at how deeply indoctrinated the CBC metrosexual was in gun phobic irrationality/incivility. Only a media-inflicted intellectual lobotomy would make a grown man act like a pathetic simpering milksop when exposed to the shooting sports. It was like watching a practical demonstration of cold war era mind control. I bet he has no idea there was a government mandated rifle range and shooting program in every secondary school in this country less than a generation ago.
    Most of the socially divisive pop-mythology and social bigotry at work today can be traced back to MSM propagandizing errant ideas and nonfactual suppositions. This has bred a new fashionable bigotry amongst urban hipsters who now feel it’s chic to openly engage in social/class/political bigotry against human targets politically stigmatized by a “progressivist” (read: politically correct fascism) media. This is amply displayed at the way they have , or the past 30 years, stigmatized and demonized responsible firearms owners.
    Personally I have had enough of this crap and what I would say to a girls, like the one in the story who is being socially stigmatized by peer pressure brought on by media bigotry, is that anyone who would reject your friendship because of media-instilled stigmatization hasn’t the intellectual, moral or ethical make up to be someone you would want as a friend – so no loss.

17. More than a faint aroma of elitist arrogant spoiled brats
    playing newspaper while living in a closed leftist clique
    after being raised by rich indulgent parents.

18. “…Only a media-inflicted intellectual lobotomy would make a grown man act like a pathetic simpering milksop when exposed to the shooting sports…”
    Nope, I think it’s caused by a genetic mutation that happens when (a) both parents have government jobs, or (b) grandparents voted for Trudeau or Douglas.