I am TJIC

Borepatch has a good post up about the controversy over something that TJIC put up on his blog.  TJIC made a joke in poor taste, the local police read it, over-reacted, and took away his license to own a gun.  Glossing over the fact that he needed such a license in the first place, let's examine the free speech angle here:

A citizen of the United States, exercising his constitutionally guaranteed right to say things that other people find objectionable, is penalized by his local government for saying them, and is deprived of his right to keep and bear arms.  Yes, the joke was disrespectful, but the Bill of Rights was put in place to protect our rights, especially when we exercise them in a way that is objected to.

If you make a joke about speeding on I-64 in Louisville, LMPD doesn't come along and impound your car.  If you joke about voting for Mickey Mouse because the slate of candidates you are presented with sucks, they don't take away your right to vote.

But because TJIC said something the locals didn't cotton to, he got his guns taken away.

I'm passing this on because the more hell we raise, the more sunshine we shine on these cockroaches, the better off we all are.

If one of us is attacked, we are all attacked.  If one of us loses our rights, we all lose our rights.

I am TJIC.

How Meta

Fox News is reporting on the lack of reporting on guns after the landmark Heller and McDonald cases didn't bring blood to the streets of America.

They remark on how in Chicago and Washington the crime rates, specifically for murder and robbery, have declined at a faster rate than expected since gun control laws were struck down, but little to no mention of that is found in most news reporting at the national level.

If you pay attention to the MSM and you have a gun freedom twist to your rifling, this should come as no surprise to you.

Here are a few other things that aren't exactly being shouted from the rooftops by our village criers:

• Project Fast and Furious, AKA GunWalker - Yes, Fox puts out information on it regularly.  And CBS has mentioned it, but it's definitely a page 3, under the fold kind of coverage.  The death of federal agents at the hands of foreign smugglers armed by the government should cause someone to be shrieking in large bold letters on page 1 of every newspaper in the country.  Brian Williams should be sputtering in rage and profanity on the NBC Evening News.  Nancy Grace should forget about the latest blonde cutie to go missing after a night of drinking to demand answers.  Nixon was impeached for obstructing the investigation of a burglary.  Clinton was impeached for lieing about an extramarital affair under oath.  Obama gets glamor shots of his backswing after his Justice Department perpetrated an act of war against a good neighbor that led to the death of American citizens.
• Campus Carry - This is the first article I've seen on the subject on a national news platform.
• TJIC and others who have their civil rights arbitrarily violated because some pissant decided they didn't like the cut of their jib.

And the list goes on and on.

Look, the media has been in the bag for the left leaning part of our society since well before I was born.  We have to take that into account in everything we say or do that might be reported in the worst possible light.  We have to expect that things that are important to us are going to be kept quiet unless we kick and scream for equal time.  Our reporting has to be better and more accurate than theirs every time, all the time.  It's just the way the game is played.

But I don't have to like it.