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We had fun on Thursday! There were 5 of us at the site of the anti's press conference in the park near the Blacksburg PD. However, the antis never showed up there. Kind of rude to reserve something and then not use it.
I think they might have decided not to have the press conference at the park because VCDL found out about it.
Luckily a reporter called me about an interview and I asked him if he knew about the conference in the park and he said there was another one being held in a room at Virginia Tech at 2:30 PM. So around 2 PM John Wilburn and I left and headed over to where the new press conference was being held.
As John and I were walking down a hall to the press-conference room, a student with the antis asked if he could help us. I said, "no, thanks" and we kept going. He asked where we were going and I gave him the room designation. Then, in an unsure voice, he said that the event in that room was "by invitation only."
Oh, no surprise about that. The antis in general are very insecure and block us from attending as many of their events as they can.
I, personally, could care less if they attend any of our events as long as they behave themselves. John and I certainly wouldn't have disrupted their little press conference.
The room had enough chairs for about 80 people, but I only saw representatives from 2 or 3 media outlets.
John and I waited patiently in the hall outside the doorway for the meeting to complete so that I could be interviewed by the press in attendance. The antis looked a little surprised to see us there and didn't seem overly happy about it, either.
Once my interviews were over, we left to get some lunch.
Later in the day I brought the protest signs to the Squires Student Center and about 10 of us stood outside holding them.
At one point a student came over. She put on a "Guns Save Lives" sticker and picked up a "Gun Save Lives" sign and held it. Apparently her teacher was giving extra credit to those who held signs at the protest.
BUT, after about 5 minutes her face turned red as she suddenly realized that she was supposed to be standing with the antis and not us. In all that time she never bothered to look at the sign she was holding or the sticker on her chest. So she handed her sign over to John and took her GSL sticker off and slinked over to where the antis were standing.
I still grin when I think of her. I guess you just can't find good hired help any more.
I was glad to see quite a few students of the fairer sex, either individually or in groups, coming to grab a GSL sticker from us. One said she had just received her CHP, as two of her friends had been sexually assaulted recently. Why do I think she is going to avoid the fate of her friends?
Some coverage:
Here is video of the part of the debate that was about guns. For the life of me, I have NO idea why Cuccinelli is not HAMMERING McAuliffe for his connection to, and 1.1 MILLION DOLLAR donation from, Michael Bloomberg:
From wdbj7.com: http://tinyurl.com/l22j3yk
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Here is an article centering on "gun owner" Terry McAuliffe being happy about his NRA "F" rating:
From breitbart.com: http://tinyurl.com/kchj5k7
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Separately, Bloomberg is being taken to task for having misleading ads (surprise, surprise):
From the dailycaller.com: http://tinyurl.com/lrv8qyz
Bloomberg uses photos of mass murderers to attack Cuccinelli [VIDEO]
The Virginia gubernatorial race has gotten so nasty that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has gone so far as to use photos of mass murderers to attack Republican candidate Ken Cuccinelli.
Bloomberg — a big proponent of gun control laws — is running ads against Cuccinelli ahead of the Nov. 5 election through his Independence USA PAC.
The new ad — a $1.2 million buy airing on television in Northern Virginia — criticizes Cuccinelli’s views on gun control, while showing photos of “the dangerously mentally ill” and “criminals” from some of the country’s most gruesome shootings in recent history.
Among those who make an appearance in the ad: Virginia Tech massacre shooter Seung-Hui Cho, Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter Adam Lanza and Aurora movie theater shooter James Holmes.
And even though the region is still recovering from the mass shooting at Washington’s Navy Yard last month, the ad includes a photo from a security camera of shooter Aaron Alexis holding his Remington 870 shotgun during his rampage.
“The gun show loophole,” the ad begins. “It means anyone can buy a gun without a background check. The dangerously mentally ill. Criminals. Endangering our families.”
The ad continues: “Ken Cuccinelli opposed closing the gun show loophole — against comprehensive background checks at gun shows for criminals and the dangerously mentally ill, siding with the NRA and undermining law enforcement.”
But is Bloomberg being misleading by tying Cuccinelli and the so-called gun show loophole to these mass murders? Gun rights activists often point out that the proposed legislation would not have stopped any of these shootings because none of these murderers were impeded by background checks.
As for the Virginia Tech shooter: Cho passed the FBI NICS background check.
As for the Navy Yard shooting: Alexis passed both the FBI NICS background check and an additional Virginia background check system.
As for Newtown: Lanza killed his mom — who had passed background checks — to steal her guns to use in the rampage.
As for the Aurora theater shooting: Holmes passed the FBI NICS background check system.
Bloomberg has said his PAC was designed to support candidates and referenda in local, state and federal races across the country. But he is just now getting involved in the Virginia’s governor’s race — with less than two weeks to go and as Democrat Terry McAuliffe now has a solid lead in the polls.
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