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Getting Caught Up Post Convention

Bitter — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:16:24 +0000

Well our plugin to pull in feeds didn’t work as well as I hoped. Unfortunately, their new release was delayed, and they were unable to get me a beta version. However, if that was the biggest hiccup in the technology, we’re doing great.

I have a lot of loose ends to tie up today. I’ll be sending out another email later today or tomorrow just to wrap up with participants.

Dick Heller

Bitter — Sat, 16 May 2009 22:45:12 +0000

Dick Heller dropped by the ILA Meet & Greet tonight. He was very modest about his contribution to the case. Then he asked the SCSon to work the next 50 years to protect our gun rights!

(For the benefit of those readers who are scratching their head saying “Dick Who?”: Dick Heller took his case against Washington D.C.’s gun ban to the US Supreme Court (and won). It’s the most important Second Amendment case to come to the court and affirmed that the 2A is an individual right, not a collective right.)

For more info, see here, and here.

NRA Convention IV:The family experience

Bitter — Sat, 16 May 2009 22:44:13 +0000

I returned to the convention today with wife and two little girls, 2 & 5, in tow. Yesterday I bought the little girls NRA convention T-shirts and they were both big hits with their matching shirts and bouncing pony tails.

I took my 5 year old to the air gun shooting range, and there found the exact air rifle I’ve been looking at for her. It took some coercing and the promise of a ribbon to get her to pull the trigger, but once she did she was hooked. Only hit the paper once but … a good start nonetheless. Priming the pump for when I buy her one of her own.

Then over to the Eddie Eagle booth for a collection of doodads, including a picture with the eagle himself (which my girls, totally on their own, humorously began calling the “chicken”).

Eddie Eagle has a simple message: if you find a gun leave it alone and get an adult. But anti-gun groups are so hateful that even this is an evil NRA plot.

And the VPC and 20/20’s answer to Eddie Eagle? “It does not help to tell kid’s what to do.” But of course they set the program up for failure by using it on 3 year olds and boy’s who have had no exposure to guns at all EXCEPT for the Eddie Eagle program. Eddie Eagle is better than nothing for everybody, but definitely a must for those of us who own guns and have children.

The girls had a good time, though I made it a point to do a targeted visit and not try to hit every booth on the exhibit floor. I could have spent another few hours there, though!