Google Alerts and the gun registry

I haven’t really written much about the gun registry issue during the past few days. Hell, I haven’t even been able to keep up with some of the more recent comments that have been posted on this blog about the gun registry. But it’s not for lack of new developments, and over the course of the next couple of days, I’ll try and catch up.

One of the first things I’ll need to do is get caught up on all the news, blog postings and crosstalk that’s been floating around on the web about this issue – and thankfully, I’ve got a fairly easy way in which to do that.

If you’ve ever set up a Google Alert before, then you know how useful they can be when it comes to following an issue online. For the newbies, these alerts are just “email updates of the latest relevant Google results… based on your choice of query or topic.”

Enter the search term of your choice – like “gun registry,” for example – and each day you’ll receive an email containing the latest results for that term. I’ve had emails like that piling up in my inbox for the past couple of weeks, and it all adds up to a pretty good chunk of reading.

A lot of it’s going to overlap, of course, and some of it surely ought to be taken with a grain of salt – including the few posts of mine included in recent alerts, which I guess I don’t need to read again. But I’ll try to get on top of the bulk of it as soon as possible, and I’ll link to some of the highlights here as they continue to unfold.

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