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Just sick. Hasn't been three hours and Kamala starts in the gun control stuff. https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris "Simply horrific. I'm grateful to the first responders who are on the scene in Gilroy, and my thoughts are with that community tonight. Our country has a gun violence epidemic that we cannot tolerate." ***Just the right time for political opportunism.***

... It was chaos. … We were enjoying the evening and all of a sudden shots rang out. … Shots rang out and the crowd was already dispersing, and you heard about nine to 11 shots and everyone was running and scattering for cover,” vendor Gary Miller, 60, ... Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio used the incident to call for stricter gun control Sunday. ...

*Gunfire erupted at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Northern California 6pm Sunday *The situation is active and police have not confirmed fatalities or injuries *Ambulance crews were reportedly told 11 people were down and a Central Coast Police *Officer told KSBW that as many as 60 were injured in the mayhem *It is unclear whether any suspects have been arrested as the scene is still active *Video shows panicked attendees fleeing the park after gunfire erupted *One witness said he felt a bullet whiz by his head and saw everyone running *Another woman said she heard popping noises and saw...

Ambulance crews were responding to reports that as many as 11 people were injured in a shooting Sunday at the Gilroy Garlic Fesival in Northern California, NBC Bay Area reported.

Police and emergency personnel late Sunday responded to reports of a shooting involving multiple victims at the Gilroy Garlic Festival. Ambulance crews were told 11 people were down in an active shooter incident at Gilroy's Christmas Hill Park.

Police and emergency personnel late Sunday responded to reports of a shooting involving multiple victims at the Gilroy Garlic Festival. Ambulance crews were told 11 people were down in an active shooter incident at Gilroy's Christmas Hill Park. One witness told NBC Bay Area he was on his way out when felt a bullet pass by his head, and when he turned around, he saw everyone running.

Results Gun‐owning women exhibit levels of political participation about gun policy and a greater willingness to engage in political discussions about gun control than nonowning women. We also find greater levels of political engagement among gun‐owning women on measures of participation not related to gun policy.

This week, I looked at some striking parallels between the ratification of the National Firearms Act of 1934 (arguably the first major piece of gun control ever passed in America), and how modern politicians approach pushing new gun control tactics today. The NFA was fraught with ignorant legislative texts, draconian taxes to be levied against regular Americans, and outright bans and restrictions on firearms and accessories that were never discussed when the bill was even written. Proponents of the NFA, including then-Attorney General Homer Cummings, used four key tactics to push the NFA to Federal law: 1. A false sense...

In August of 2018, facebook was accused of banning the distribution of computer files associated with the printing of 3D firearms.  From 3dprintingindustry.com: According to numerous sources, Facebook released a statement saying: “Sharing instructions on how to print firearms using 3D printers is not allowed under our Community Standards,” This was always an overreach by Facebook. Information on how to make guns has been freely available, offline in printed form, for centuries. The idea that files on how to make 3D printed plastic guns are somehow verboten are a direct assault on the distribution of legal information. From another, pragmatic...

Pope Francis is hoping that the 50th anniversary of the first moon walk inspires efforts to help our “common home” on Earth. […] He expressed hope that the memory of “that great step for humanity” would spark the desire for progress on other fronts: “more dignity for the weak, more justice among people, more future for our common home.” …

FULL TITLE: Michelle Obama Claims People Dismiss Presidency After Barack: ‘If a Black Guy Can Do It, Anybody Can’ In a Saturday interview, former first lady Michelle Obama insisted that Americans now dismiss the U.S. presidency because a black man was recently in the office. Speaking to TV host Gayle King during the 2019 Essence Festival at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, Obama exclaimed that husband Barack made the presidency “look too easy,” Fox News reported. “I guess it’s kind of like if the black guy can do it, anybody can do it — and that’s not true. It’s a hard job,”...

They are a match made in their political heaven. Tom Steyer and his money along with Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and her Justice Democrats. As the 2020 election nears, they will be two of the generals in the Democrats’ civil war. The party that loses the White House often struggles to find unity. When Barack Obama defeated John McCain, the Republicans struggled to find a unifying leader and a unifying message for years. With Trump in the White House and his 90 percent approval rating among Republicans, according to Gallup, Republicans are unified. The Democrats are not. On the contrary, the Democrats...

...MSNBC’s All In host, Chris Hayes, took a leading position Thursday night by denouncing all Republicans and Trump supporters, and calling for a revolution of sorts against the Trump administration. As with all social justice warriors, Hayes has been circulating his “cause” all week, building the case for Trump’s apparent racism. He began: “Each part of the coalition has been dealt into the Trump presidency. It is a classic model of corrupt governance. The capo on the top and the many, many bosses below who are given control of their domain to do as they wish.” This statement, clearly meant...

(CNN) - The National Rifle Association was already reeling from leadership shakeups and allegations of financial mismanagement when it dropped another bombshell. The NRA accused Chris Cox -- the man who had controlled the organization's lobbying and political activities for more than 15 years -- of trying to overthrow Chief Executive Wayne LaPierre, according to a lawsuit filed last month. Cox denied the charge to The New York Times, but quickly resigned. His unceremonious sacking stunned NRA board members, who saw Cox as a potential successor to LaPierre, and infuriated political staffers. Some started packing up their desks, unsure of...

"We live in a truly odd time where nobody can be fired for actually being inept at their job but everyone can be fired for a clumsy social media post." -Dennis Miller Though if you're a Democrat governor, wearing blackface back in medical school and making self-incriminating comments about "post-birth abortion" aren't necessarily career-ending. But for everyone else, Big Boss has the power to deprive you of your livelihood if your politically incorrect views (whether online or off) are deemed "to bring the organisation into disrepute". Workers in the Age of Woke are expected to follow their leaders and commit...

Full Title: Leftist Starts Petition Drive to Ban President Trump Campaign Rallies After “Send Her Back” ControversyA leftist activist has initiated a petition at Change.org calling on public and private venues to ban President Trump from holding campaign rallies in the wake of the “send her back” crowd chants targeting Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) at Trump’s Greenville, North Carolina rally Wednesday night. The initial target of the ban is Trump’s August first rally set for U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati, Ohio.Igor Volsky, Executive Director of Guns Down America and a former Vice President of the Center for American Progress,...

With ‘Woke’ Identity Politics Is there anything they won’t spoil? s there literally anything left that they won’t try to ruin by injecting ‘woke’ identity politics into it? The 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong becoming the first man to set foot on the Moon is this weekend. Instead of using the celebration of the Apollo Moon landing to bring Americans together in a time of intense partisan bickering, the New York Times and the Washington Post are exploiting it to divide Americans even further. “The Apollo program was designed by men, for men. If we do not acknowledge the gender...

We Americans are currently in a civilizational state historians William Strauss and Neil Howe would call the "Third Turning": an unraveling. The so-called Left is making it happen, too, with conservatives enabling it by conserving yesterday's liberalism and being those nice guys who finish last. In Marxist circles, this stage would be called "destabilization" — the second of a four-part process to subvert a society and seize control. The first, third, and fourth stages are, respectively, "demoralization," "crisis," and "normalization." The demoralization stage, which essentially is the undermining of a target nation's morality (the process of radically changing the population's...

New Zealand attempted controls on firearms ownership from 1845 to 1885. It was not very effective.  From 1885 to 1912, the arms control law was generally a dead letter. From 1912 to 1945 arms control was again attempted, primarily as a means of preventing revolution. From 1945 to 1965, there was again a peaceful enjoyment of firearms with few controls in New Zealand. There were registration controls on the books, but they proved ineffective. Because of increasing crime rates, from the middle 1960's to 1983, the New Zealand police struggled with the ineffective registration system.  The information was obtained...

Anti-gunners got nowhere. Gun Owners of America (GOA) is saying pro-gun forces have won a victory in the state of Virginia. After warning early last month that anti-gun people in government were pushing for gun control in the wake of crimes at Virginia Beach, they recently sent out an email proclaiming success. "Governor Ralph “Blackface” Northam tried to exploit the Virginia Beach shooting by calling an emergency legislative session to pass radical gun control bills. But, powered by grassroots defenders of our God-given rights like you, we pressured the Virginia House and Senate to protect the Second Amendment… …And gun...