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addition to fighting fire with fire

We have not talked about the Commercial Appeal’s privacy-invading database of Tennessee Handgun Carry Permit Holders for a while, but that database seems to have been refreshed recently (03JUL, to be specific), and I realized that my reciprocal listing of the public information available on the staff of the Commercial

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same gos-se, different day

Given the non-stop, unending stream of the same baseless hoplophobia, the same anti-rights stance, and the same specious arguments spewing forth from the Commercial Appeal, I honestly got out of the habit of addressing their idiotic editorials, fun though a good fisking can be. However, what with HB3125 moving

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all in the phrasing

Even though my collection of posts debunking the anti-rights claims of the Commercial Appeal, denouncing their privacy-invading database, and disproving their copy-pasting of erroneous VPC studies is still in existance and has been moved to greener pastures, I have largely given up on addressing the newspaper’s incessant anti-rights …

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moving things around

Here we are, just a little over a year after the Commercial Appeal started its campaign invading the privacy of hundreds of thousands of law-abiding citizens throughout Tennessee, and my documentation of those disgusting actions finally has its own, separate, undated page.

It has been a little while since …

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for them but not us

One of the favorite arguments brought to bear against those of us who are concerned about the publication of privacy-invading lists of handgun carry permit holders basically boils down to, “What, they are just publishing publicly-available information – it is not like they are trying to punish you for exercising …

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going to need a database of databases

In what appears to be a continuing trend among bird cage liners “newspapers” throughout the country, one such rag up in Indiana (going by the name of the “Herald Times Online”) decided to post up a database of all the carry permit holders in Indiana. This particular database does …

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rewarding privacy-invasion

Heads-up to all of the peeping-Toms, stalkers, voyeurs, and other privacy-invading predators out there: if you get a job at a major local newspaper and convince them that violating the privacy of over 200,000 people is a good idea, you might just get an award:

In addition, the judges

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back from hiatus

I have been going kind of light on the Commercial Appeal of late, simply because I have had other things to write about. However, the God’s honest truth is that they can easily outstrip me – the writers and editors of the Commercial Appeal are paid to write their hoplophobic, …

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the apparent evil of “choice”

In dealing with Wendi C. Thomas’ most-recent bout of discrimination, I completely missed the current hoplophobic editorial at the Commercial Appeal.

Now that the Tennessee General Assembly has given final approval to handguns in restaurants that serve booze, the onus falls on restaurant and bar owners to decide

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discrimination is discrimination

Noted hoplophobe, anti-rights activist, and general-purpose bigot, Wendi C. Thomas, occasionally has her screeds published in the Commercial Appeal, and today’s helping of bald-faced discrimination and ignorance is certainly no different from her usual fare.

I won’t eat where fellow diners are packing heat.

Well, then, Wendi, I …

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set your clock by them

As predictable as the rising sun, whenever something positive happens for firearm rights in the state of Tennessee, Chris Peck and the rest of his editorial staff of the Commercial Appeal are right on the spot, spouting off their copious quantities of bigotry and bias like there was no tomorrow. …

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the inertia just keeps building

Unlike the editorial staff of the Commercial Appeal, who still cannot be bothered to provide links substantiating the claims and assertions in their editorial writings, Richard Locker appears to have figured out the magic of hyperlinks, and was able to sneak one such link pointing to the Commercial Appeal’s

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pay no attention to the man behind the curtain

It is always good to see the staff of the Commercial Appeal continue with their rampantly anti-firearm agenda – it makes it so much easier to call them out as being the discriminating bigots they are. Consider this “news” article, entitled “Memphians debate guns in parks”, and what, exactly, …

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google is hard

The Tennessee Senate recently voted that handgun carry permit holders should be allowed to carry their firearms into state and local parks unless the specific municipalities in charge of those parks say otherwise… and, predictably, Chris Peck and the rest of the editorial staff of the Commercial Appeal responded with …

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pull the lever

I would never want to illegitimately skew a dataset in my own favor, but if you would like to make your opinion known concerning legislation allowing handgun carry permit holders to take their firearms into parks in Tennessee, there is a poll where you can do just that.
Richard Locker …

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with a side of self-reliance

Once again, the editorial staff of the Commercial Appeal exposes the fact that they would prefer everyone’s lives being ruled by fear and emotion rather than logic and the Constitution.
However, before I delve into the mess that is their article, please head on over to the page and vote …

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logical fallacies ‘r’ us

Of all the specious and outright idiotic arguments put forward by the editorial staff of the Commercial Appeal concerning the new legislation to allow law-abiding handgun carry permit holders to carry their firearms into restaurants that serve alcohol, the one featured in this moronic editorial pretty much takes the cake. …

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two for the price of one

In an amazing double-victory, HB0962 (the bill to allow handgun carry permit holders to carry their firearms into restaurants that serve alcohol) made it out of committee with no restrictions on it, and HB0959 (the bill to keep handgun carry permit records confidential) made it out of the House

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fingers in their ears

Maybe the Commercial Appeal should start listening to their readers.

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no agenda here

Given their silence on the topic for the past few weeks, I guess I should not be surprised that Chris Peck and the rest of the editorial staff of the Commercial Appeal are back at their old bigoted hijinks.
I will not waste my time on a line-by-line fisking …

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