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All Gave Some~Some Gave All
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How could anyone think this could be lethal. Pretty pink and all. Yup, it’s the vaunted AR-15. Don’t show it to gun grabbers, they’d have a fit.
Every woman should have one for personal protection.
Doodie Free
The vast majority of airports are not dog-friendly, but the small percentage of them that do, make plenty of allowances for man’s best friends. No matter how well-trained your dog is, they have needs just like the rest of us. This San Diego airport decided to assign a special “pet relief” area, so your pet can go about its business in peace and without nasty looks from appalled passengers. Think about it, it’s also a great place to hang around with cute puppies while waiting around.
...Woof...
Associated Press Sees Florida Shooting Conspiracy: NRA –>JROTC –>Air Rifles –>Nikolas Cruz
by AWR HAWKINS
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After being fooled by the “white supremacist” conspiracy theorists, the Associated Press shifted to note that the NRA gave money to the Stoneman Douglas JROTC program, which, in turn, bought air guns, which, in turn, were used when Nikolas Cruz was part of the JROTC marksmanship program.
And a new conspiracy is born! If you connect enough dots, and are willing to equate casual with causal, then the NRA did something that may have benefited the JROTC at the time when Cruz was in it.
In other news, the National Rifle Association is dedicated to helping the JROTC because members of the group go on to be leaders in their communities and in the U.S. military. Cruz is an exception and was removed from Stoneman Douglas for “disciplinary reasons.”
The Associated Press gave Cruz’s disciplinary issues fleeting coverage then moved on to report how much money the NRA gives JROTC groups.
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For example, they state that the NRA gave JROTC groups around the country a total of $2.2 million in 2016. Of that, “more than $400,000 was in cash grants, while nearly $1.8 million came as in-kind donations ranging from equipment for high school air rifle teams to gun safety programs for younger children. ”
Two things need to be noted: 1. The money given by the NRA meets needs that remain after the U.S. Army gives its funding, which means the NRA is literally working hand-in-hand with our military to be sure future military members have the equipment needed to succeed in the course of service they have chosen. 2. Some of the money is used to teach children “gun safety,” which is hard to comprehend because Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) told Joe Scarborough that the NRA is not concerned with “promoting gun safety” anymore.
The bottom line — the NRA helps future military members by giving millions to the JROTC. And they help keep children safe by giving untold amounts to teach gun safety.
Somewhere along the way, Nikolas Cruz was affiliated with a JROTC that the NRA helped, so everything is the NRA’s fault.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart podcast Bullets with AWR Hawkins, and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.
Dick Morris: Mueller Exposed! Much Ado About Nothing
By Dick Morris
To try to get some traction and attention for his stalled investigation of collusion between President Donald Trump and the Kremlin, Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller has indicted 13 individuals and three groups from Russia for meddling in the U.S. election.
He says that their efforts were focused on three swing states — Florida, Colorado and Virginia. But an analysis of the election results indicates that the Democrat ticket actually ran better in these three states than it did nationally. So the agents apparently had little or no impact.
They were the gang that couldn’t shoot straight.
While the Democratic Party margin nationally dropped by 1.7 percent from 2012 to 2016, its margin in the three states targeted by the Russians dropped by an average of only 1.4 percent. So the Russian efforts do not seem to have been effective.
This indictment is a prosecutor’s dream. He can get all the headlines he wants, but Mueller knows the case will never come to trial. None of the potential defendants is in the U.S. and within reach of the court. So no chance of embarrassment. (Or does he really think Russia will extradite the accused?)
Mueller alleges “that the Russians created false U.S. personae and stole the identities of real U.S. people in order to interfere” in the election. Their goal, Mueller says, was to help Donald Trump win. They “leveraged Facebook and other social media platforms to spread divisive messages leading up to the election.”
Some, posing as Americans, induced “unwitting individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities.”
(Would photo IDs have helped?)
The indictment says that “(d)efendants made various expenditures to carry out those activities, including buying political advertisements on social media in the names of U.S. persons and entities” and that the accused “compensated real U.S. persons to promote or disparage candidates.”
The indictment accuses the Russians of “impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful functions of the government through fraud and deceit for the purpose of interfering with the U.S. political and electoral processes, including the presidential election of 2016.”
It also accuses the Russians of efforts to suppress minority turnout.
Apparently, they didn’t do any better than in states where they didn’t operate.
It all goes to show that the Mueller probe is much ado about nothing.
Of course with the magnitude of coverage in the mainstream media, the amount of paid advertising, and the intensity of the chatter on social media, it is the height of folly and arrogance to assume that a merry band of 13 Russians could influence the election. This dumb conclusion is appropriate for Russians who know little of our system and its history.
But a special prosecutor with Mueller’s vast experience should know better.
And so, for that matter, should Hillary.
Dick Morris is a former adviser to President Bill Clinton as well as a political author, pollster and consultant. His most recent book, “Rogue Spooks,” was written with his wife, Eileen McGann.
White House: Family sponsorship program could cause biggest migration wave in world history if not ended
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As Congress continues to debate a resolution for those who have benefitted from the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Trump officials are sending stark warnings to legislators about what their choices about immigrant sponsorships could mean for chain migration.
According to one White House official who spoke to the Washington Examiner, if immigrants eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program are allowed to sponsor more than just their spouses and children, it would “trigger the largest immigrant wave ‘in the history of the world.’”
Not Ellis Island Anymore
The official hoped to explain chain migration in his warning, which could allow for an influx of immigrants far beyond what the U.S. can handle.
“Each two immigrants averages seven sponsorships,” the official told the Examiner. “A legalization of 2 million would be a net legalization of something like 9 million total, so two would become nine.”
He continued:
Which would mean that instead of issuing say roughly 10 million green cards over a decade, you end up issuing something like 20 million, which would be the largest increase in immigration not only in the history of our country but probably in the history of the world.
The official’s remarks were offered on a conference call with reporters that was organized by the White House this week to help a bill sponsored by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) pass. The bill has two major demands in it: ending the diversity visa lottery and ending chain migration.
DACA recipients, sometimes called Dreamers, were brought to the United States as children by their illegal immigrant parents, but allowed to stay in the U.S. under the program. The Democrats now want to offer these immigrants, who are mostly young adults, citizenship.
Republicans, however, say that’s only feasible if there’s a protection to keep their parents — still living in the U.S. illegally — from applying for citizenship themselves on the basis of the Dreamer’s new status.
Trump’s Four Pillars
The White House has outlined four points that Congress must address in an immigration bill if they want the president’s support, including a wall built on the southern border, a path to citizenship for Dreamers, an end to the visa lottery, and an end to chain migration.
The Senate is debating several bills this week, including one authored by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) that would not only offer Dreamers citizenship but would protect illegal immigrant criminals from deportation.
It does not fund the president’s infamous border wall, however, which could mean that even if it passes in the House and Senate, the bill won’t become law.
Only time will tell whether meaningful immigration reform will be passed.
Can Miss Crabtree pack heat? These 18 states allow K-12 teachers to carry.
Donald Trump likes the idea of teachers bearing arms in the K-12 classroom. “I will get rid of gun-free zones on schools — you have to,” the Republican nominee told a crowd at a campaign rally in Burlington, Vt., in 2016. “My first day, it gets signed, okay? My first day. There’s no more gun-free zones.”
More than a year later, nothing has changed. After a monster killed 17 people in a Florida high school on Valentine’s Day though, calls for arming teachers have increased. “There is an interim solution against murderous assailants: shoot back,” a Wall Street Journal editorial concluded. “There is evidence it works.”
That last point is controversial but somewhat accurate. When an evil man with a gun opened fire on a small Baptist church in rural Texas last November, it was a proverbial good guy with a gun who stopped him but not before 17 were killed. Why, Second Amendment advocates ask, couldn’t that work at school?
What’s stopping teachers from bringing guns to work right now? The Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990. Sponsored by then-Sen. Joe Biden and signed into law by then-President George H.W. Bush the law makes it illegal for anyone “to knowingly possess a firearm” within 1,000 feet of a school zone.
And what’s stopping Trump from following through on his campaign promise? For starters, 47 Democrats, two independents, and a couple of Republican senators. If Trump wants teachers to be able to lock and load, this law would need to be reversed in Congress.
As recently as last January, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., introduced legislation to do exactly that. It was referred to committee before being quickly forgotten though.
Is there support for this among voters? Yes. After the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, which left 20 dead, a Quinnipiac University Poll found that 64 percent of Republicans supported “allowing more teachers and school officials to carry guns in schools.”
Could the Supreme Court overturn the Gun-Free School Zones Act? Maybe. They did it before. Five years after passage, the court declared the law unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause. But Congress amended the bill and President Bill Clinton signed it back into law ins 1996. The Supreme Court has not ruled on the issue ever since.
Does this mean that teachers cannot carry guns on campus? Not in all cases. The Gun-Free School Zones has exceptions. A teacher can bring a gun to school “as part of a program approved by a school in the school zone.” Currently, there are at least 18 states which allow armed adults on school property with relatively minor conditions.
A 2013 NBC News investigation found:
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Alabama (which bans possessing a weapon on school grounds only if the carrier has "intent to do bodily harm")
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California (with approval of the superintendent)
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Connecticut (with approval of "school officials")
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Hawaii (no specific law)
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Idaho (with school trustees' approval)
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Iowa (with "authorization")
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Kentucky (with school board approval)
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Massachusetts (with approval of the school board or principal)
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Mississippi (with school board approval)
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Montana (with school trustees' permission)
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New Hampshire (ban applies only to pupils, not adults)
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New Jersey (with approval from the school's "governing officer")
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New York (with the school's approval)
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Oregon (with school board approval)
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Rhode Island (with a state concealed weapons permit)
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Texas (with the school's permission)
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Utah (with approval of the "responsible school administrator")
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Wyoming (as long as it's not concealed)
Do teachers want to bring their own guns to school? Union teachers don’t. A poll of National Education Association members found that 68 percent opposed allowing their colleagues armed.
Reporter: If More Babies Were Aborted, the Florida School Shooting Wouldn’t Happen
MICAIAH BILGER
As America reels from another mass shooting in Florida, one abortion activist used the tragedy to claim that fewer mass shootings would happen if more babies were aborted.
“Woman puts baby up for adoption, he grows up to be a violent young man who will spend the rest of his life in prison for a mass murder. Tell me more about how abortions are wrong,” she wrote Thursday.
Woman puts baby up for adoption, he grows up to be a violent young man who will spend the rest of his life in prison for a mass murder. Tell me more about how abortions are wrong. #Florida #ParklandSchoolShooting
The tweet is a reference to alleged mass murderer Nikolas Cruz’s background as an adopted child. According to the AP, he was living with friends after both of his adoptive parents died. Neighbors said his mother, Lynda Cruz, died Nov. 1, and Cruz had mental health problems.
Cruz allegedly killed 17 people and injured 13 others Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the report states.
Griffin quickly received backlash for her tweets about adoption and abortion. Responding to her critics, Griffin directed “trolls” to an old article claiming that abortions reduce crime. Experts have refuted this claim, made popular in the book “Freakonomics,” numerous times.
While Griffin later clarified that she does not oppose adoption and did not mean to insult any adoptees, she continued to assert that some children should be aborted.
Hoodie Rebecca 
✔@dorothyofisraelLol. This drew so much attention by ppl jumping to conclusions like I think adoption is wrong, when all I said was that a woman who was clearly unfit to have a child — did — did NOT raise him — and maybe it could have turned out better if she could have made a CHOICE. https://twitter.com/dorothyofisrael/status/964245461786820608 …
People on both sides of the abortion debate quickly criticized Griffin for using the slaughter of 17 innocent lives to push abortion.
Among them was popular conservative commentator Ben Shapiro.
Woman puts baby up for adoption, he turns out to be Steve Jobs. Tell me again how abortions are right. https://twitter.com/dorothyofisrael/status/964245461786820608 …
Abortion activist and writer Robyn Marty also criticized the tweet.
Wow. Dear abortion rights supporters - if you are using the fact that the Florida shooter was adopted to promote keeping abortion legal, you are doing it very, VERY wrong. https://twitter.com/dorothyofisrael/status/964245461786820608 …
The solution to ending such horrific, massive violence as the Parkland shooting is troublingly uncertain. Politicians and average Americans will continue debating solutions for years.
But one thing is clear. Violence against children in the womb cannot be the answer to violence against children outside the womb. We have no way of knowing if a child in the womb will be a revolutionary like Steve Jobs or a violent criminal. What we do know is every human life has value, and every child, born and unborn, deserves to live and grow free from violence.
UK church spires used to boost phone, wi-fi signal
AFP / PAUL ELLISThe Church of England has agreed to allow church spires across Britain to be used to boost broadband, mobile phone and WiFi connectivity in rural areas
Church spires across Britain will be used to boost broadband, mobile phone and WiFi connectivity in rural areas, under a deal struck between the government and the Church of England, it was announced Sunday.
"This agreement with the Church of England will mean that even a 15th century building can help make Britain fit for the future," said Matt Hancock, the minister for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
The CoE has 16,000 church buildings and around 65 percent of its churches are located in rural communities, making them ideal hosts of key digital infrastructure.
There are currently more than 120 cases of broadband and mobile services being delivered from parish churches, from wireless transmitters fitted in spires and towers, to aerials, satellite dishes and fibre cables.
"We know that rural churches in particular have always served as a hub for their communities," said Stephen Cottrell, the bishop of Chelmsford in southeast England, where the church has already helped boost broadband access.
"Encouraging churches to improve connectivity will help tackle two of the biggest issues rural areas face -- isolation and sustainability."
Local Reporter Goes Rogue, Tells Truth About Guns, Enrages Liberals on Air
BY V SAXENA
During a report this week, a local Minnesota reporter blew some uninformed liberal minds by touting some basic facts about gun ownership in his state.
“We took a very hard look at these numbers, and we did find that Minnesota has a very high rate of gun ownership — one of the highest in the country — but it has a relatively low rate of violent crime,” revealed Minneapolis station WCCO reporter Pat Kessler in a segment Thursday.
He added that in 2017, Minnesota “set a new record for firearms background checks,” processing 473,975 checks on permits, 94,383 checks on handguns and 125,516 checks on long guns.
In other words, more people attempted to purchase weapons in the state last year than ever before.
“Minnesota set another 2017 record, too,” his report continued. “The State Department of Public Safety reports 283,188 Minnesotans now have permits to legally carry firearms in public.”
Interestingly, these numbers coincide perfectly with the research of economist, commentator and gun rights advocate John R. Lott, whose award-winning 1998 book, “More Guns, Less Crime,” centers around the thesis that a well-armed population deters crime.
“Criminals are deterred by higher penalties. Just as higher arrest and conviction rates deter crime, so does the risk that someone committing a crime will confront someone able to defend him or herself,” he explained in an interview that year with the University of Chicago Press.
“There is a strong negative relationship between the number of law-abiding citizens with permits and the crime rate — as more people obtain permits there is a greater decline in violent crime rates. For each additional year that a concealed handgun law is in effect the murder rate declines by 3 percent, rape by 2 percent, and robberies by over 2 percent.”
Other research bears this out. Five years ago Forbes columnist Larry Bell pointed to a then-recent Pew Research Study that found that “(n)ational rates of gun homicide and other violent gun crimes” had dropped significantly since the mid-1990s.
But as noted by Bell, “Those gun crime rates certainly aren’t diminishing for lack of supply…at least not for law-abiding legal buyers.”
“Last December, the FBI recorded a record number of 2.78 million background checks for purchases that month, surpassing a 2.01 million mark set the month before by about 39 percent. That December 2012 figure, in turn, was up 49 percent from a previous record on that month the year before,” he wrote.
And according to data from the FBI, the number of background checks conducted annually have only grown since then, jumping from a total of 19.6 million in 2012 to a high of 25.2 million in 2017.
More people are seeking out and obtaining guns, and yet America’s top metropolitans are continuing to see record “drops in crime and murder.”
Why is that? I’m not going to speculate because I’m not a trained researcher, but I will quote John R. Lott, who has said many times over, “More guns, less crime.”
Please share this story on Facebook and Twitter and let us know what you think about the statistics out of Minnesota.
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Local Reporter Goes Rogue, Tells Truth About Guns, Enrages Liberals on As a “Sympathetic Terrorist”
BY V SAXENA
During a report this week, a local Minnesota reporter blew some uninformed liberal minds by touting some basic facts about gun ownership in his state.
“We took a very hard look at these numbers, and we did find that Minnesota has a very high rate of gun ownership — one of the highest in the country — but it has a relatively low rate of violent crime,” revealed Minneapolis station WCCO reporter Pat Kessler in a segment Thursday.
He added that in 2017, Minnesota “set a new record for firearms background checks,” processing 473,975 checks on permits, 94,383 checks on handguns and 125,516 checks on long guns.
In other words, more people attempted to purchase weapons in the state last year than ever before.
“Minnesota set another 2017 record, too,” his report continued. “The State Department of Public Safety reports 283,188 Minnesotans now have permits to legally carry firearms in public.”
Interestingly, these numbers coincide perfectly with the research of economist, commentator and gun rights advocate John R. Lott, whose award-winning 1998 book, “More Guns, Less Crime,” centers around the thesis that a well-armed population deters crime.
Interestingly, these numbers coincide perfectly with the research of economist, commentator and gun rights advocate John R. Lott, whose award-winning 1998 book, “More Guns, Less Crime,” centers around the thesis that a well-armed population deters crime.
“Criminals are deterred by higher penalties. Just as higher arrest and conviction rates deter crime, so does the risk that someone committing a crime will confront someone able to defend him or herself,” he explained in an interview that year with the University of Chicago Press.
“There is a strong negative relationship between the number of law-abiding citizens with permits and the crime rate — as more people obtain permits there is a greater decline in violent crime rates. For each additional year that a concealed handgun law is in effect the murder rate declines by 3 percent, rape by 2 percent, and robberies by over 2 percent.”
Other research bears this out. Five years ago Forbes columnist Larry Bell pointed to a then-recent Pew Research Study that found that “(n)ational rates of gun homicide and other violent gun crimes” had dropped significantly since the mid-1990s.
But as noted by Bell, “Those gun crime rates certainly aren’t diminishing for lack of supply…at least not for law-abiding legal buyers.”
“Last December, the FBI recorded a record number of 2.78 million background checks for purchases that month, surpassing a 2.01 million mark set the month before by about 39 percent. That December 2012 figure, in turn, was up 49 percent from a previous record on that month the year before,” he wrote.
And according to data from the FBI, the number of background checks conducted annually have only grown since then, jumping from a total of 19.6 million in 2012 to a high of 25.2 million in 2017.
More people are seeking out and obtaining guns, and yet America’s top metropolitans are continuing to see record “drops in crime and murder.”
Why is that? I’m not going to speculate because I’m not a trained researcher, but I will quote John R. Lott, who has said many times over, “More guns, less crime.”
Please share this story on Facebook and Twitter and let us know what you think about the statistics out of Minnesota.
What do you think about the "more guns, less crime" narrative?
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