A recent political cartoon run in several Central Ohio newspapers shows the severity of the anti-gun bias prevalent in the establishment media. The cartoon depicts a man wearing an NRA armband handing a rifle to a stereotype caricature of what is presumed to be a Muslim terrorist. Under the picture are the words "NRA fights effort to deny guns to people on terrorist watch list." (Click here to view the cartoon.)

Obviously, the cartoon is intended to be an example of exaggerating the truth to make a political point.

But, in this case there isn't even a kernel of truth to exaggerate.

By Jim Shepherd

As the curtain was rung down on the NRA Annual Meeting and Exhibitions in Charlotte, North Carolina, it appears another record-setting event will be headed for the record books.

First, with nearly a third of the NRA’s membership living inside a 150 mile radius of Charlotte, it seems the attendance records are pretty much going to be rewritten. Although we’ve not seen official numbers, my conversations with NRA officials seem to indicate the projected 70,000 attendees will be met or bettered.

Second, that attendance drives plenty of politicians, writers and anti-gun folks crazy. As a lineup of speakers that included former Alaska governor and Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and others continued to exhort the pro-firearms attendees while excoriating the administration for its inability to address terrorism or seal the porous southern borders, liberal bloggers’ remarks went off the charts.

As normal, the champions of understanding, compassion and reason had no problem calling firearms owners anything from would-be revolutionaries to “beer-swilling, drunken bubbas bristling with firearms.”