Happy Veterans Day!

On Veterans Day we honor those who have served in our armed forces. Knoxville is having their annual Veterans Day Parade, like many other places. Historically, this began to be observed on Armistice Day, the day hostilities ceased on the Western Front, between the Allies and Germany.

Today, we have many in uniform who give of themselves for the country, yet as we saw last year at Fort Hood, when they return to the States, they are assigned to gun free zones, and thus may be disarmed at the time of greatest need.

Pray for the safety of those who are far away in combat zones; as well as those (and their families) on our 'safe' military bases worldwide.

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Did Tennessee Democratic Party's mudslinging backfire?

My Examiner column quizzed some political candidates prior the recent election. Some candidates did not answer, others answered in a general manner which really did not reveal their views on the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (RKBA).

Stacy Campfield, who won the 7th Senatorial District in Tennessee, and Randy Walker, his opponent, both responded to the questionnaire, with links HERE. Campfield's answers, as well as his history in the Tennessee Legislature, indicate support for the individual RKBA. Walker's answers seemed vague to me.

A Democratic Party mailer quoting the "Knoxville Examiner Gun Rights Questionnaire" as their source, stated,

Campfield wants to let anyone carry a gun. He'd let convicted rapists and child sex predators carry concealed guns into churches, playgrounds, and even child care centers and schools.

While mudslinging ads are to be expected in most elections, this one was just over the top. Anyone with reasonable intelligence could not draw that conclusion from Campfield's answers.

And, in case you have been sleeping like Rip Van Winkle since 1968, you would know that convicted rapists and child sex predators are felons, and have no right to own a firearm; no, not even a single bullet.

Democrats lost many other races in Tennessee, in a historic move to the right by the electorate. Even the Governor-elect, Bill Haslam was smeared by the Tennessee Democratic Party.

It seems to me that their mudslinging seriously backfired.

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TFA October meeting features General Dennis Jackson, USA, Ret.

There were ten million land mines when we got there.

Said General Dennis Jackson, as he addressed the Knoxville Chapter of the Tennessee Firearms Association (TFA). Jackson was referring to mines that were laid during the ten year occupation of Afghanistan by the (now defunct) Soviet Union, which some say was the Soviet's Vietnam War.

The United States, along with a coalition force of 67 nations, invaded Afghanistan in October 2001 to overthrow the Taliban. Jackson was the logistics officer of the operation. At issue today, according to Jackson, is the risk of a failed state.

. . . but, sooner or later, we will grow tired of being there. Our current national objective is Afghan self-determination, but after a while, we've got to leave.

He contrasted Soviet action in Afghanistan, primarily Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT), with current U.S. forces actively patrolling in the countryside.

Jackson states that Afghanistan is a nation smaller than Texas, with a population close to that of California. Much of the society is debilitated by drug use. Lots of lithium has been recently found there, which could have a significant impact on the economy.

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Frank Cagle says 'State Gun Advocates Pushing Too Hard'

Read his MetroPulse article HERE, and read my comment at the bottom of that page.

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