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<p>Former Representative Beto O’Rourke grew angry after reporters questioned him about President Donald Trump’s response to the shooting in El Paso.</p> <p>When asked by a reporter if he thought there was anything Trump could say to heal the nation after the shootings, O’Rourke snapped back.</p>

Texas General Land Office Commissioner George P. Bush issued a statement that called on all Americans to stand against "white terrorism" Saturday after a gunman who espoused white supremacist views in a manifesto killed at least 18 in El Paso. Bush, son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), said Saturday evening that "white terrorism" was a "real and present threat that we must all denounce and defeat." "I believe fighting terrorism remains a national priority," Bush said. "And that should include standing firm against white terrorism." "There have now been multiple attacks from self-declared white terrorists here in the...

In military death penalty cases, there are several mandatory appeal stages that could take up to 10 to 15 years. Author: Marcelino Benito Published: 10:03 PM CST January 31, 2019 Updated: 10:04 PM CST January 31, 2019 A KHOU 11 News viewer named Mike reached out with this question: "Has the Ft. Hood shooter been put to death, and if so why not?" Here's what we verified. Major Nidal Hasan killed 13 people and injured 32 on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood back in 2009. It is considered the worst mass murder at a military base in U.S history....

As a high school student, the gunman in the Dayton, Ohio, massacre had a “hit list” of classmates he wanted to kill or hurt, according to four former students who said they were told by school officials they were on the list. ... He said the list was separated into two columns: a “kill list” for boys and a “rape list” for girls.

Full Title: Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on El Paso Shooting: "What Do We Expect" When Kids Play Video Games Instead Of Going To Church? Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, a Republican, told "FOX & Friends" Sunday morning that the mass shooting the previous day at an El Paso Wal-Mart was partially the result of the murderer living out a "super-soldier fantasy" he had learned from the video game series "Call Of Duty." "This was maybe a video game to this evil demon. A video game to him. He has no sense of humanity, no sense of life. He wanted...

High school classmates of the gunman who killed nine people early Sunday in Dayton, Ohio, say he was suspended for compiling a “hit list” of those he wanted to kill and a “rape list” of girls he wanted to sexually assault. The accounts by two former classmates emerged after police said there was nothing in the background of 24-year-old Connor Betts that would have prevented him from purchasing the .223-caliber rifle with extended ammunition magazines that he used to open fire outside a crowded bar. Police on patrol in the entertainment district fatally shot him less than a minute later....

El Paso County Sheriff Richard D. Wiles said he wants representatives who will stand up against racism after a white man was accused of going into an El Paso shopping center with the intent to kill Hispanic people. Twenty people were killed in the shooting rampage and another 26 injured on Saturday. That night, Wiles released a statement on Facebook that called for representatives to combat racism. “This Anglo man came here to kill Hispanics,” he wrote. “I’m outraged and you should be too. This entire nation should be outraged. In this day and age, with all the serious issues...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday called on lawmakers to pass strong gun background checks after two mass shootings over the weekend killed 29 people and sought to blame the nation’s rising violence and divisions on the media.Trump, who is scheduled to deliver public remarks later on Monday following the attacks, appeared to dismiss accusations following the two shootings in Texas and Ohio that his rhetoric has stoked racial hatred and provoked attacks amid a deepening political divide. On Saturday, a gunman killed 20 people at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, in what authorities said...

Donald Trump is facing fresh demands for gun control in the wake of the Dayton and El Paso shootings as the New York Post published a full front-page appeal to 'Ban Weapons of War' today. The paper's editorial board called for a ban on assault weapons after 29 people were killed in the two attacks in Ohio and Texas with guns that appeared to have been purchased legally. 'It does not have to be this way. It should not have to be this way. Mr. President, do something - help America live without fear,' the Post demanded.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the Second Amendment protects the right to own “guns in common use.” That doesn’t cover the semiautomatic weapons regularly used only in mass shootings.

You look at the Democratic debaters and you despair. It’s a hackneyed collection of motley mediocrities that includes, among other things, an unrepentant crusty commie, an ersatz squaw, a golddigging narc, a handsy grandpa, a furry, and a New Age weirdo who unironically channels Oddball from Kelly’s Heroes. To quote the gender fluidity pioneers of Twisted Sister, America, if that’s your best, your best won’t do. Now, we’re supposed to ignore their undeniable lousiness because we’re in a crisis. The crisis appears to be that our elite has been denied total power via the defeat of Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit,...

Only a handful – if that – of hate crimes against Trump supporters are reported by the mainstream media. That’s why here at Milne News we thought we would do what we are famous for and report the truth

The run for the 2020 election is turning into a contest between two dramatically different visions for America's future. Our nation is rapidly facing an inflection point as we approach the next election concerning the future political direction of our country. Two diametrically opposite sets of political ideas are in direct competition for the support of the majority of Americans. With the active support of the mainstream media, the various elements on the Left work hard to project the appearance of having the majority of political public opinion in their favor. However, a little covered story that was recently released...

"We cannot let those killed in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, die in vain. Likewise for those so seriously wounded. We can never forget them, and those many who came before them. Republicans and Democrats must come together and get strong background checks"

In the El Paso shooting’s wake, evident is same wash-rinse-repeat pattern. There are the inevitable calls for gun control by demagogues concerned only about people control, those who put the onus on whites when most mass shooters are non-white, and propagandists who blame the “Right” when most violence originates with the “Left.” It’s quite tiresome, really. In truth, the main underlying cause of increased mass-murder events -- and so much evil in general -- is a severe philosophical/spiritual malaise besetting our nation. Were gun control the remedy here, mass shootings would be rare. Not only were there fewer firearm laws...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Thanks for that, Joe. We know you’re so darn sincere. – Elderly Democrat presidential front-runner Joe Biden, speaking at a high-dollar fundraiser in San Diego on Sunday, comforted the mourning people of El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio by offering his heartfelt sympathies over the “tragic events in Houston today and also in Michigan the day before.” You just seriously could never make these people up, folks. That Dayton shooter? He was an Elizabeth Warren fan. – So he said himself on his Twitter profile, which was dug up by law enforcement...

Desperate times call for desperate measures. For the Democratic Party, these are desperate times indeed. The 2020 presidential election is 15 months away and Democrats have no serious candidate to challenge President Trump. Instead they have twenty delusional candidates, each trying to out-left each other, to be more “woke” toward the latest social justice grievance. How else to explain whiter-than-white Kirsten Gillibrand lecturing us on white privilege or the vice-president of the first black president, Joe Biden, being accused of racism by the faux African-American Kamala Harris, who is by nationality is actually half-Indian and half-Jamaican? Democrats are desperate because...

Mark Twain once said, “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter -- ‘tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” Donald Trump is a nationalist who supports all things American, and has admitted as much. What he is not is a white nationalist -- a detail that, like a decimal point, seems minor on the surface yet really is the difference between a lightning bug and lightning. Yet Democrats and the hard left continue to play with lightning, incessantly labeling Trump a white nationalist despite knowing how such language...

The latest round of tragic mass-shootings by scumbags-who-will-not-be-named-here – two of them in two days – predictably brings the latest calls to “do something.” Liberals, as usual, politicize such tragedies to call for America to “do something” about guns. Conservatives want to “do something” about violent video games, target hardening, and prayer in schools. And in potential hate-crime cases like the El Paso shooting (in this instance, the shooter’s alleged manifesto included anti-immigrant rhetoric that liberals like Judd Legum insist came “directly from Trump’s Twitter feed”) both sides want to “do something” about white supremacy.After watching the heartbreaking coverage from...

Just a thought, but has anyone noticed that in every picture of this guy, he doesn't seem to be carrying much - if any - backup ammo? I own a 7.62x39 rifle, and those ammo magazines are big and bulky. They are MUCH bigger and heavier than 5.56/.223 rounds. And, he supposedly fired HOW MANY ROUNDS?