PAFOA Featured in Christian Science Monitor

[Sebastian]

Dan and I are here at the NRA Annual Meeting, and ran into a reporter with the Christian Science Monitor. After inviting him out to an event with us and a few other bloggers, he wrote this really good article that mentions PAFOA. Go check it out.

[Karl/PA]

Excellent! Good work guys.

[Sandcut]

Great article!

I felt compelled to offer this comment in response to the article:

I believe that the statement that NRA supporters "just want to be told what they want to hear" couldn't be further from the truth and shows just how ensnared Mr. Sugarmann is in rote, anti-gun dogma.

As a member of the NRA, I firmly believe that the organization plays a vital role in maintaining the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. With that said, as a thinking human being, I also know that anything that I read that originates from the NRA must acknowledge their particular bias.

As a member of the aforementioned Pennsylvania Firearm Owner's Association, I would state that, internet sites like this exemplify why the internet was developed, to exchange information and ideas. PAFOA is to the "gun culture" what gray-literature peer review would be to the scientific community. A place to exchange ideas, explore avenues of thought and refute fallacies. And therein lies its strength. The free exchange of ideas with little more than common interest to guide you. Visit the site sometime and you'll find that it is light years away from the regurgitation of pro-gun rhetoric. Kudos to Mr. Pehrson for his work.

And to Ms. Gill, I find it lamentable that, although many of us "gun nuts" would gladly use our rights under the Second Amendment to protect your rights under the First(including your right to claim that you personally don't like guns,) it appears that you would not use your rights under the First Amendment to protect our rights under the Second.

Just great. Thanks guys! Now I'm responding to comments to articles in the Christian Science Monitor. Next thing you know, I'll be clinging to a Bible AS WELL as my gun.

Where am I gonna keep my rock hammer and fossil guide???!!!!!!! (Walks out of the room murmuring with head held low.)

[.FourthFifth]

Eat that Murtha!

Oh and check out Susan Gill's comment. Makes me sick at the general public's naivete, they have opinions on their "utopia" but don't seem to understand the real world doesn't work that way.

The sheeple's blind concept of how to regulate guns and why we don't need them, smacks of fascism. In a very subtle, but chilling way. If you take what they suggest, apply it to a real world situation...then step back and see what kind of government you've got. Bingo.

We need more, not only GUN education...but Constitutional Law and Civics education. We need an awareness that guns are not the problem or the answer to any of the nation's downfalls. Rather our culture, which is in a decline of discipline and character.

[Emptymag]

That's great! Thanks for sharing this Sebastian!

[spyro825]

thats good maybe anti gun people reading this article wont be so gun shy

[P-11 shooter]

"His site, Pennsylvania Firearms Owners Association, has become one of the biggest social networks in the gun world, drawing nearly 4 million visitors a month and featuring thousands of discussion threads."


WOW!

[mojo]

"His site, Pennsylvania Firearms Owners Association, has become one of the biggest social networks in the gun world, drawing nearly 4 million visitors a month and featuring thousands of discussion threads."


WOW!

+1

We get 4 million visitors a month? Must remember that

[adymond]

“If you compare the pro-gun activity in the blogosphere versus the pro-gun-control activity, the scales have just tipped tremendously in their favor,” says Josh Sugarmann, founder of the Violence Policy Center in Washington, which advocates for more gun control in the US. “There’s much more engagement, more involvement, and they clearly have more free time than people on our side of the issue do.”

You have to love the snide little comment in there about none of us having life or job or anything that would take up our time.

[RaisedByWolves]

First I was disappointed thinking my post wouldnt be used, then I was excited that it was.



Then I was dissapointed again when I ran across this:

She is a sheeple. And, willing to be prey to the wolves.
We are the sheepdogs.

Maybe its just me, but I think this phrase makes us look like loons and crusaders, that aint me.


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