Second Amendment News Roundup for 5/6/08

Focusing on guns and politics, here is today's Second Amendment News Roundup:

Dustin takes strong exception to a man in Chattanooga who believes that it is impractical to take a handgun on the hiking trail:
http://dustinsgunblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/10-lb-handgun.html

Of Arms and the Law reports that at ground zero of gun bans--London, England--a gun fight broke out that resulted in a police siege. I didn't think these things happened in such a 'safe' place!:
http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2008/05/gunfight_and_po.php

Tam blogs about the Indy gunbloggers meeting recently:
http://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2008/05/my-head-feels-vacuumed-out.html

The Ninth Stage opines on prosecutors and other government officials who violate the law and the civil rights of the citizens...and I FULLY agree!:
http://ninthstage.com/index.php/2008/05/05/id-say-hell-yes/

The MUST-read of the day is by Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs, and it shows us why Zogby's polls cannot be trusted:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/05/obama-zogbys-ug.html

David Codrea has a neat story about a family that is proud to be a shooting family, where children are taught to respect and properly handle firearms:
http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2008/05/proud-to-be-shooting-family.html

We know that the government has fallen into the hands of tyrants and despots when the ones making the laws for the masses believe that they themselves are exempt from those laws. Take smoking indoors, for example, as Uncle points out:
http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2008/05/06/step-1-find-book-step-2-throw-it/

Sebastian gives us some facts about the size, scope, and power of the gun rights movement:
http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/05/06/more-gun-rights-facts/

Nicki comments on suspending the gas tax, drilling for more oil in North America, and building more refineries:
http://libertyzone.blogspot.com/2008/05/gas-tax-ignorami.html

As Bill Buckley discovered in the early 1950s, American academia is a cesspool of liberal propaganda and brainwashing. Mike McCarville gives us an example of this in the state of Oklahoma:
http://wwwtmrcom.blogspot.com/2008/05/study-93-of-ou-employees-back-dems.html