From 9 AM to well after 1 PM, we got useful information from the front lines. Discussing media relations, Tom Gresham and Malia Zimmerman noted among other things that ranting against liberals is counterproductive, because in their collective experience they\u2019ve found that as many as 30% of liberals are pro-gun, and it\u2019s never wise to insult potential allies.\u00a0 There was a three-man panel on dealing with anti-gun media bias. Herb Stupp advised appealing to reporters\u2019 and editors\u2019 sense of fairness: \u201cI appreciate your interest in this issue. Have you considered how many lives are saved by guns?\u201d\u00a0 Herb noted that big city papers often have an ombudsman who handles complaints about press bias.\u00a0 \u201cSpeak to the editor if you can\u2019t get through to the reporter,\u201d he advised, \u201cand look for columnists who are friendly or open-minded to the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n
Don Irvine from Accuracy In Media (AIM) noted that of 216 stories on gun policy analyzed in the first thirty days after Sandy Hook, eight out of nine favored \u201cgun control.\u201d CBS was the worst with a 22:1 ratio.\u00a0 \u201cMake judicious use of Twitter and Facebook\u201d was his advice. \u201cThis is how today\u2019s journalists get their news,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Charles Heller of Liberty Watch Radio, who does three talk shows in Arizona, advises gun rights advocates to make themselves information resources to journalists.\u00a0 Tell them, \u201cWe will get you information,\u201d and follow through with solidly researched material.<\/p>\n
Tim Schmidt of the US Concealed Carry Association came out strongly for permitless carry. He spoke of having to kiss the ring of the king for an inalienable right, and saw permits as \u201cgoofy little concealed carry cards.\u201d<\/p>\n
John Fund of National Review <\/em>celebrated the recently announced resignation of Eric Holder. His take: Democrats are taking the popularity polls and voting predictions, and wanted a new AG in place before a Republican-controlled Senate would have to approve his replacement. Fund noted that one out of ten House Democrats voted to find Holder in contempt of Congress.\u00a0 With document production now having been compelled by the Court in the Fast and Furious matter, he sees the Holder departure as \u201cgetting out of town ahead of the sheriff.\u201d\u00a0 Fund contends that Eric Holder is\/was the worst Attorney General in US history.\u00a0 When it is pointed out that Nixon\u2019s AG, John Mitchell, went to prison, Fund counters that Mitchell was sentenced there for things he did as Nixon\u2019s campaign manager, not anything he did as Attorney General.<\/p>\n After the conference, on his Gun Talk radio show, Tom Gresham gave the best answer as to why this conference was held in anti-gun Chicago.\u00a0 Alan Gottlieb\u2019s Second Amendment Foundation funded the lawsuits that won concealed carry for Illinois, and handgun ownership rights for Chicagoans.\u00a0 Gresham explained simply, \u201cIt was a victory lap.\u201d<\/p>\n Next year\u2019s Gun Rights Policy Conference, the thirtieth, will take place the last full weekend of September 2015 in super-gun-friendly Phoenix.\u00a0 Attendance is no charge and you can pack your pistol without need for a permit.\u00a0 Hope to see you there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From 9 AM to well after 1 PM, we got useful information from the front lines. Discussing media relations, Tom Gresham and Malia Zimmerman noted among other things that ranting against liberals is counterproductive, because in their collective experience they\u2019ve found that as many as 30% of liberals are pro-gun, and it\u2019s never wise to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearm-owners-civil-rights","8":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}