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FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) — "Several" people are dead and multiple others injured after a shooting in South Fresno. The shooting happened around 7 o'clock Sunday evening on Lamona Avenue, near Sandau Avenue. That is in the area of Peach and Olive Avenues. Police say that a family gathering was taking place at the home and multiple people were in the backyard watching a football game. An unknown suspect came into the backyard of the home and began firing...

Another school shooting, this time by a 15-year-old at Saugus High School in California, another quest for answers. Yet, 20 years after Columbine, the United States is still looking for how to stop mass public shootings. The rest of the world, where mass public shootings are actually much more common, is also looking for solutions.

**SNIP** Although none of the Democratic candidates explicitly rebuked Mr Obama's comments, Mr Sanders mounted the strongest defence of his policy platform. Answering questions on a forum aired by Univision , a Spanish-language TV network, he was asked whether Mr Obama was "right" to say voters didn't want systemic change. Mr Sanders, who describes himself as a democratic socialist and progressive, laughed and said: "Well, it depends on what you mean by tear down the system." "The agenda that we have is an agenda supported by the vast majority of working people," he said. "When I talk about raising the...

In a blatant attempt to exploit the Santa Clarita school shooting the very next day, Friday’s NBC Nightly News conveniently queued up their ‘What Matters’ segment to push the Democratic Party’s desire to do away with gun rights in America. While the segment dealt with what mattered to Democratic voters it didn’t deal with the facts that mattered. “Just a day after another deadly school shooting, tonight we are talking to one of the 2020 candidates about something that Democratic voters told us is important to them: gun control,” anchor Lester Holt announced, clearly flaunting the fact they were exploiting...

On 12 November, 2019, the Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of Remington Arms Company to a Connecticut Supreme Court decision. The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled a lawsuit against Remington could proceed, under an exception the Protection of Legal Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA). This is a serious threat to the Second Amendment. If a firearms manufacturer can be sued, simply for selling legal products, most manufacturers can be destroyed by lawsuits funded by governmental organizations.Protection of Legal Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) The purpose of the PLCAA was to prevent these types of lawsuits. Here are the purposes...

Police have charged five men in connection with a shooting at a Friday night football came at Pleasantville High School in South Jersey, CNN reported. The shooting began at the end of the third quarter of a game between Camden and Pleasantville high schools, WPVI-TV said. At least six shots were fired from the bleachers, 6ABC News reported. The shooting left one adult and two minors injured. According to the prosecutor's office, the 27-year-old victim is in stable condition and will undergo surgery, while a 10-year-old is in critical condition. The third victim, a 15-year-old boy, suffered a graze wound...

Pope Compares Conservatives to Nazis Francis condemns capitalism as criminal at Int'l Association of Penal Law meeting VATICAN (ChurchMilitant.com) - Pope Francis is attacking politicians who oppose the homosexual agenda as evidence of "Nazism," while launching his strongest attack yet on capitalism and repeating his call for the abolition of the death penalty. “It is no coincidence that in these times, emblems and actions typical of Nazism reappear, which, with its persecutions against Jews, gypsies and people of homosexual orientation, represents the negative model par excellence of a culture of waste and hatred,” he said in his address to the International Association of Penal...

In Tacoma, Washington, the City Council is proposing a special tax on guns and ammunition. From q13fox.com: Tacoma is considering implementing a tax that would add $25 to all firearms purchase. The tax would also add 2 cents per round to ammunition purchases that is .22 Caliber or less and add 5 cents per round to all other ammunition. Such a tax should be held unconstitutional because it chills the right to keep and bear arms, protected by both the U.S. Constitution and the Washington State Constitution. The proposed tax seems to violate the state preemption statute.  From leg.wa.gov: RCW...

First day of meeting promotes more restrictions on firearmsBALTIMORE (ChurchMilitant.com) - Gun control is again one of the main issues U.S. Catholic bishops are discussing, while faithful Catholics are calling them out as hypocrites for choosing politics over religion. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is gathering in Baltimore this week for its yearly Fall General Assembly and among the first subjects discussed on Monday is gun control. Bishop Frank Dewayne of Venice, Florida, and chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, delivered a 20-minute presentation pushing bishops to pressure state and federal governments...

THE BACKGROUND The modern American gun debate began on May 2, 1967, when 30 protesting members of the Black Panther Party marched into the California Capitol with loaded handguns, shotguns and rifles. As photos of gun-toting radicals from Oakland hit front pages across the country, many Americans were shocked to see who was embracing the Second Amendment. In California, as in most states at the time, there were few restrictions on carrying loaded weapons in public. That soon changed. The Panthers' efforts to "police the police" already had led Republican Assemblyman Don Mulford to propose legislation to ban the "open...

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. - A woman was shot by a homeowner after breaking into a house on Strasburg Drive in Port Charlotte, according to deputies. Jessica Gutzler, 40, broke into the home around 7 p.m. then started fighting the homeowner, Robert Lafata. During the fight, Lafata said he shot Gutzler in her butt. He said Gutzler used to date one of his female friends. Gutzler then ran away, but later called 911 asking for medical assistance. Deputies found her near Strasburg Drive and Seaton Avenue, then took her to a medical facility to be treated. She will be charged...

While Democrat presidential candidate after Democrat presidential candidate has pushed gun control, Americans have been filing into retailers to purchase firearms. In fact, FBI figures for firearm purchase background checks–performed via the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)–show that October 2019 was the third consecutive month of record checks. There were 2,366,824 checks NICS checks in August 2019, the highest number in any August since the adoption of background checks. Likewise, there were 2,207,312 in September 2019, setting a record for that month as well. And October 2019 saw 2,393,609 background checks, for the third consecutive record month this...

On Thursday afternoon, within a couple of hours of covering the school shooting in Santa Clarita, California, MSNBC journalists were predictably suggesting Republicans were to blame for the deaths as analysts and several Democratic guests pined for more gun control. At one point, host Katy Tur invited MSNBC law enforcement analyst Jim Cavanaugh to blame Republican Senators for gun deaths because of their refusal to support more restrictions: "Would you go so far as to hold them responsible for the deaths that are continuing -- the lives that are continuing to be lost with gun violence?" Cavanaugh, who had already...

WA: Port Angeles Mayor receives Pushback over Attempt to alter War Memorial Image: Image provided by listeners of the Dori Morrison Show The replica Liberty Bell in the Veterans Memorial Park in Port Angeles,  Washington, was installed as a private initiative in the bicentennial year of 1976.For several years, the replica and the park have been subject to vandalism.From king5.com: PORT ANGELES, Wash. — At Veterans Memorial Park in Port Angeles, a replica of the Liberty Bell is defaced with graffiti. The park is teeming with garbage. Nearby residents say they no longer feel safe. “This can be a horrific...

Guns & Ammo's annual ranking of gun-friendly states. From worst (New York) to best (Arizona), here are the best states for gun owners in 2019. Top 5 - Most Gun-Friendly States: Arizona, Idaho, Alaska, Kansas, OklahomaBottom 5 - Least Gun-Friendly States: New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Hawaii, California Things were looking uncertain for gun owners in many states in 2018 thanks to a successful push in otherwise pro-­gun states to enact gun control legislation. Things seem to have stabilized in 2019. We are, at least for now, back to normal with states on the extreme ends of the spectrum growing...

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, November 14, 2019 Attorney General William P. Barr Releases First-Ever Semiannual Report on the Fix NICS Act On Nov. 14, 2019, the Attorney General published and submitted to Congress the first semiannual report on the Fix NICS Act. The report, required by the Fix NICS Act passed by Congress in March 2018, reflects strong compliance with the Act and demonstrates renewed efforts at all levels of government to improve the sharing of records and information that are vital to the effective operation of the National Instant Criminal Background...

I overheard two men, young white guys in their 20s at Shop Rite this morning in New Jersey, rambling about how food costs are rising there, and they blamed rich Americans. I said to myself, "wow". Is that is what America is coming to? Class envy?

Just a coincidence, no doubt. – So, with their corrupt media cohorts struggling to spin their disastrous first day of impeachment circus hearings to their advantage, the Democrats were desperate all Thursday morning to change the narrative. There were no bombshells in the testimony of either Bill Taylor or the dapper dandy George Kent, no revelations of anything resembling impeachable behavior by President Donald Trump, nothing for anyone in the Democrat/media/deep state Axis of Disinformation to hang their rhetorical hats on. As a result, it was a very slow news morning for America for once. And then it all magically...

Two-thirds of Americans say the use of marijuana should be legal, reflecting a steady increase over the past decade, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. The share of U.S. adults who oppose legalization has fallen from 52% in 2010 to 32% today. Meanwhile, an overwhelming majority of U.S. adults (91%) say marijuana should be legal either for medical and recreational use (59%) or that it should be legal just for medical use (32%). Fewer than one-in-ten (8%) prefer to keep marijuana illegal in all circumstances, according to the survey, conducted Sept. 3 to 15 on Pew Research Center’s...

Update: At least six victims in shooting at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, LA County Fire Department says.