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ABCs Jonathan Karl to Sen. Chris Murphy: Your Gun Control Proposals Would Not Have Stopped Orlando :: 06/20/2016
"This Week" host Jon Karl challenges Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), saying that none of the gun control measures he propsoed in his filibuster last week would have done anything to prevent the Orlando shooter from buying a gun. Transcript, via ABC News:
Florida prosecutor suspended for Facebook post following Orlando shooting :: 06/20/2016
The Florida State Attorney’s Office announced Friday that an assistant state attorney was suspended for violating the office’s social media policy.
Maryland is one of the states where a watch-list gun ban failed :: 06/20/2016
Maryland is one of at least three states where gun-control advocates recently failed to push through legislation to bar people on terror watch lists from purchasing weapons - a safeguard that is drawing new attention in the wake of last Sunday's mass shooting in Orlando, Florida.
Special Forces Association Rejects Calls For Gun Control From Petraeus, McChrystal :: 06/20/2016
The Special Forces Association forcefully rebuked calls for more gun control from both former CIA director and CENTCOM commander David Petraeus and retired Army general Stanley McChrystal. SFA is a 52 year national organization composed of members who once served in the U.S. Special Forces.
Store Owner: Undercover CBS Purchase of AR-15 Broke Federal Law :: 06/20/2016
The gun store where a CBS News employee purchased a gun for a segment that aired Thursday on “CBS This Morning” has filed a report with the Virginia State Police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives over concerns the purchase was unlawful.
WaPo: Democrats Serving Up Some Whoppers About Guns :: 06/20/2016
The Democratic filibuster in the U.S. Senate this week ended with an agreement with Republicans to vote on two pro-gun control amendments relating to expanded background checks and keeping those on terror watch lists from buying guns. On June 15, Sen. Chris Murphy delayed a spending bill that would fund the Department of Justice over the legislative body’s inaction to do anything on gun violence.
When Evil Comes for Us :: 06/20/2016
When law abiding citizens have no more tools with which to defend ourselves, what will we do when evil comes for us?
Yes, in America in 2014 Bare Hands And Feet Were More Often Fatal to Americans than Assault Weapons :: 06/20/2016
When The New York Times last year in a front-page editorial called for a full ban and confiscation/buyback on what they claimed they could, somehow, easily define as "assault weapons," I explained that the problem they were trying to solve at enormous expense in both money and the civil unrest that would arise in America from the attempt to fully remove an almost universally peacefully used object from millions of Americans hands amounted to around 2 percent of U.S. homicides.
British MP Murdered with Homemade Gun, Knife :: 06/19/2016
A British Labor MP has been murdered when she intervened in an altercation between two men, one of whom has been reported to have mental issues. Witnesses at the scene reported that the gun used appeared “homemade”. A knife was also used. The MP was reportedly shot three times and stabbed several times. From uk.businessinsider.com:
Cruz Pulls the Curtain Back on Dem's Political Theatrics :: 06/19/2016
On Thursday, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) delivered a speech on the Senate floor, emphasizing the need to address the growing threat of radical Islamic terrorism in the wake of the horrific act of terror in Orlando last weekend. Cruz also called out the impotent theatrics of the Democrats filibuster on gun control.
Do We The People Still Have a Voice? :: 06/19/2016
Do you feel like you have a voice in today’s political world anymore? Think you’re helpless to stop the Democrat’s charge on our Second Amendment rights?
Fact Check: An AR-15 Wasnt Used In Orlando, And It Wouldnt Have Mattered Anyway :: 06/19/2016
The Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando, Florida is the deadliest Islamic terror attack in the United States since the terror attacks of 9/11.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott: Lets Destroy ISIS, Not The 2nd Amendment :: 06/19/2016
It is time to destroy ISIS, not the Second Amendment, Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) said Friday when he was asked about President Barack Obama’s renewed demands for more gun control.
If the Second Amendment Only Applies to Muskets, Does the First Only Apply to Printing Presses? :: 06/19/2016
A favorite argument of gun grabbers holds that the Second Amendment is obsolete because the Founders, crafting the Constitution and the Bill of Rights between 1787 and 1791, couldn’t have imagined the advanced firearms that are available to civilians today. They only wanted to protect the right to keep and bear muskets; clearly, that protection doesn’t extend to semi-automatic rifles like the popular AR-15 — or so the argument goes.
In Defense of Self-Defense-Napolitano :: 06/19/2016
Most of the mass killings by gun in the United States in recent years -- Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Newtown, Charleston, San Bernardino and now Orlando -- took place in venues where local or state law prohibited carrying guns, even by those lawfully licensed to do so. The government cheerfully calls these venues "gun-free zones." They should be called killing zones.
Napolitano Answers: Is the Second Amendment a Sacred Right? :: 06/19/2016
Judge Napolitano took to his Chambers on FOX News to address the question, “Is the Second Amendment a Sacred Right?”
Navy SEAL Says AR-15 Is Common Sense Choice for Civilian Defense :: 06/19/2016
Following the tragic shooting in Orlando, Florida that left at least 49 dead, there have been renewed calls for gun control. In this debate, perhaps no rifle has become more emblematic of the struggle between gun rights and gun control groups than the AR-15.
Orlando nightclub patrons shouldn't have been armed, NRA says :: 06/19/2016
WASHINGTON — Unlike Donald Trump, top leaders of the National Rifle Association said Sunday they don't believe patrons at a nightclub where 49 people were killed last weekend should have been armed for self-protection.
Palin: Obama is A Special Kind Of Stupid For Being Anti-Second Amendment :: 06/19/2016
Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin blasted Barack Obama for “exploiting a sick, evil, ideological-driven attack on Americans to further your twisted anti-Second Amendment mission.”
After Terror Watchlist Disarmament, Haters will be Next in Line :: 06/18/2016
“You all are intolerant. I don’t want to coexist with this hate,” a female SJW (“social justice warrior”) at Portland State University tells members of Students for Trump.
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