PA Bill Number: HB2235
Title: Providing for regulation of the meat packing and food processing industry by creating facility health and safety committees in the workplace; ...
Description: Providing for regulation of the meat packing and food processing industry by creating facility health and safety committees in the workplace; ... ...
Last Action: Referred to LABOR AND INDUSTRY
Last Action Date: Apr 25, 2024
Keep it clean this weekend; more on Couric controversy :: 05/28/2016
As millions of Americans head out this morning for the Memorial Day weekend, many taking guns along for some target practice, they should also take along some extra litter bags to clean up their mess before coming home Monday.
This is a problem that plagues public land managers in many states, and here in Washington, the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is taking action. They are meeting with target shooters, other recreationists and even local homeowners who have built in formerly uninhabited areas to deal with the problem of target shooting in some state forests.
Face it, some people who take guns into the woods are pigs. They shoot up old televisions and computers, appliances as large as refrigerators or washing machines, and then leave those items. At the same time, some of these people are simply unsafe with guns, shooting up the countryside irresponsibly. They spoil the outdoors for everyone, and their behavior especially hurts other recreational shooters.
The DNR will hold three more meetings about this problem over the next several days. On May 31, there’s a meeting at the Water Resources Education Center in Vancouver to discuss the Yacolt Burn State Forest. Another session is set June 1 at Burlington-Edison High School regarding the Harry Osborne State Forest. On June 2, a meeting will be held at the Evergreen State College Longhouse Education and Cultural Center. All meetings begin at 6:30 p.m.
Responsible gun owners figure attending such meetings is important. They are literally “under the gun” because of political anti-gun activities. During this weekend’s Northwest Folklife Festival in Seattle, anti-gunners will be gathering signatures on the new gun control initiative, pushing so-called “extreme risk protection orders.” The Seattle Center event should attract more than 200,000 people by some estimates; a target-rich environment for gun control zealots; the same people who backed Initiative 594, which has so far has apparently not prevented a single crime.
The gun prohibition crowd, led by Moms Demand Action, will be observing “National Gun Violence Awareness Day” next Thursday. They will be wearing bright orange at a demonstration scheduled at Seattle’s Madrona Commons at 7 p.m. The “Moms” group is back by anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg. Last weekend in Louisville, when some 80,000 NRA members gathered for their annual convention, reports indicate that the anti-gun Moms were only able to muster about 40 people to protest, some distance away from the Kentucky Expo Center.
MEANWHILE, the controversy over broadcast journalist Katie Couric’s “Under The Gun” film continues to boil across social media. It has also been discussed in depth at Fox News, but according to yesterday’s Newsbusters, the other networks are having none of it, mentioning nary a word about the flap over media bias.
And a new Rasmussen Report survey doesn’t help matters. The report, released on Monday, shows 49 percent of likely U.S. voters think most reporters are biased, specifically against Donald Trump. On the other hand, only 18 percent believe most reporters are biased against Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The presumption of media bias against conservative issues, and particularly gun ownership, has long existed among Second Amendment advocates. They feel they have never gotten a “fair shake” from the mainstream press and Couric’s documentary is being held up as the latest example of this bias.
Yesterday’s Western Journalism discussed the Couric mess, in which the reporter and the director of her film are accused of creative editing of an interview with members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League. Where an independent audio shows them responding to a question Couric asked about background checks, the film depicts them as being silent when quizzed about keeping guns out of criminal hands.
Overlooked in all of this is Couric’s own naiveté on the subject by the way she asked the question: “If there are no background checks for gun purchasers, how do you prevent felons or terrorists from purchasing a gun?”
If Couric believes for a heartbeat that felons or terrorists head to the nearest gun shop or sporting goods store to buy their firearms, it suggests to gun rights activists that she has a false impression of reality. Likewise, they don’t go to gun shows, either, as some research has revealed.
“Under the Gun” is now being panned as a “below the belt” attempt to sway public opinion against guns and people who own them. Couric’s credibility may not recover.
http://www.examiner.com/article/keep-it-clean-this-weekend-more-on-couric-controversy
