Update on Mississippi carry-permit bills

HB311, which reduced the permit issuance period from 120 to 45 days and allows for renewal by mail (every other renewal beginning with the first), passed both houses and was signed by the governor. It takes effect on July 1. Win.

SB2306, which removed the restriction on carry in public parks, was amended into HB311 by the Senate, but the House refused to concur. The public parks language was stripped out of HB311 in conference. So, there will still be no carrying in parks in Mississippi in the near future. Bummer.

20/20 is now a propaganda shop

I just watched 20/20's hour-long anti-gun tearjerker. Those folks really should be ashamed of themselves. The errors were glaring (as were a few outright fabrications), and I'm too tired to list them all. I imagine by the time I get around to it, someone else will have fisked the thing thoroughly, but I would at least like to say that the 20/20 folks should all, each and every one of them, turn in their press credentials. There's not an honest, objective bone in the lot of them.

Religion the opiate of the masses? Horseshit. Television leads the people of this nation by the collective nose, and I guarantee there will be some new "common-sense" legislation pushed in the next few weeks, backed enthusiastically by all the people who just learned from 20/20 just how bad the gun problem is in this country.

P.S. The ABC24 bit that followed here in The City that Elvis Built, while at least not an anti-gun hit piece, was also chock-full of some jacked-up nonsense, the most egregious of which was that buckshot won't go through walls. Izzat right?

Piracy on the open sea

The United States of America knew how to deal with this sort of nonsense in the early 19th Century, some of which activity was immortalized in The Marines' Hymn.

I'd like to know just what the hell we're going to do about this same issue today, and why we've allowed these bastards to thumb their noses at the world for so long?