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As per their standard modus operandi, the Commercial Appeal just cannot keep its pages bare of irrational hoplophobia. The first instance of further bigoty and bias from the staff of the Commercial Appeal does not even merit linking, considering it is nothing more than four paragraphs of mindless bleating about …

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the inertia keeps up

When Richard Locker is not busy trying to embed every form of bias and bigotry into his journalism, he can crank out honest, accurate reporting pretty quickly after the events in question:

The state Senate today approved the bill that would allow people with handgun-carry permits to take their

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sore losers

Just after Richard Locker does a fairly good job reporting on the facts, and just the facts, of the passage of HB0962, the editorial staff of the Commercial Appeal decides to go and counterbalance this attempt at honest journalism.
Why am I not surprised?

Tennessee restaurant patrons

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… and a side of hollow-points

Amazingly enough, HB0962 was approved by the Tennessee House of Representatives, and is currently headed to the Senate for their vote. Doubly-amazingly, it made it out of the house with almost no idiotic amendments being attached to it, with the only strange/obnoxious requirements being that no permit holder may legally …

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dead weight

About every other day, I head over to the Commercial Appeal’s webpage, and run a quick search for “handgun” to see what new hoplophobic diatribes they have put forward as supposed journalism. I have been trying to ignore the plethora of “imported” news they seem to be posting these days …

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back and forth

Ok, this is just starting to be funny… Richard Locker is turning into the Star Trek movie series of the Commercial Appeal. First, his bias appears to know no bounds. Not surprising, given the company he works for. But, then, he tries to hide that bias, with only …

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honesty is (apparently) overrated

Wow. I have to admit to being somewhat impressed. It would appear as though the Commercial Appeal somehow managed to go over a full week without putting up another hoplophobic, anti-rights editorial. At least it gives me something to write about, right?

Considering the energy state legislators are putting

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times are tough

I sincerely doubt this has anything to do with the Commercial Appeal pointlessly invading the privacy of over 218,000 law-abiding handgun carry permit holders, but it would seem as though they just laid off 19 employees:

The union representing the editorial staff of The Commercial Appeal of Memphis

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regression

Just as we started to have a little hope for Richard Locker, he goes and screws it all up:

Nine days after an Alabama handgun-carry licensee shot and killed 10 people — three of them on the streets while driving his car — the Tennessee House approved a

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the same old tune

Just as Richard Locker takes significant strides towards simply reporting the news without bias or agenda, the editorial staff of the Commercial Appeal goes and makes up for his progress with yet another bigoted diatribe.

Open government advocates were midway through the annual Sunshine Week observance Wednesday when some

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almost there

Surprisingly, today’s gem from Richard Locker, the Commercial Appeal‘s leading anti-firearms journalist, was impressively devoid of rampant hoplophobia, pants-shitting hysterics, and other idiocies he has indulged in previously. Mayhap there is hope after all.
This particular post will actually skip over significant portions of his article, simply …

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birds of a feather

It would appear as though Otis L. Sanford was jealous of all of the attention Richard Locker was getting over his idiotic comments earlier, so he has decided to go ahead and jump into the fray with his own variety of ignorance as well. I am going to …

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this is why hoplophobes will lose

What follows is a direct quote from an email sent by Richard Locker, the author of some recent Commercial Appeal articles concerning firearm-related bills working their way through the Tennessee Legislature. This email was sent in response to another email sent by a member of a forum I read, …

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trying for more justification

Another day, another rationalization by the Commercial Appeal to defend their privacy-invading database of handgun carry permit holders.

Kiandre Sims was well armed the night he kicked in a back door and sexually assaulted his ex-girlfriend.

Carrying an assault rifle and a handgun, Sims forced the woman into a

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conflation and association

And, predictably, the Commercial Appeal sinks to a new low, now attempting to conflate law-abiding, private handgun carry permit holders with the murderer in Alabama. Of course, given that the Commercial Appeal was already associating handgun carry permit holders with felons, sex offenders, and hate crime perpetrators, this …

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guilt by association

Do you want to know the best part about the Commercial Appeal’s privacy-invading database of handgun carry permit holders? Here we are, almost a month after this whole froofera hit the public scene, and the staff of the Commercial Appeal continues to categorize law-abiding handgun carry permit holders …

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guess it finally nuked the fridge

I am not entirely sure if this is going to help or hurt the cause of the handgun carry permit holders concerned about the Commercial Appeal’s privacy-invading database:

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the bigots speak again

*sigh* It seems as though the staff at the Commercial Appeal cannot even go a weekend without further rationalization and bigotry.
Figures.
Once more into the breech, my good friends.

Some encouraging signs appeared last week that the rush to expand the territory in which handguns can be carried

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moving forward (slightly)

Once again, the Commercial Appeal tries to report the news, although this time, their obvious anti-Second-Amendment, anti-self-defense, and anti-rights bias is not quite as evident.

Bills allowing people licensed to carry guns to take them into state and local parks advanced Wednesday. A separate bill allowing guns in restaurants

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and the bias meter pegs out

Even when just trying to report the news, the staff at the Commercial Appeal cannot bother to rid themselevs of their anti-Second-Amendment tendencies, or silence their opposition to people being lawfully capable of defending themselves.

Bills allowing people licensed to carry guns in restaurants serving alcohol and in all

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