I often say the Republicans are puppets of the NRA and here is further proof: The Republican-led Georgia Senate, upset that Delta Airlines cut ties with the NRA, has blocked a bill that would have exempted Delta from paying sales tax on jet fuel. For the safety of our children and grandchildren, we need to quit electing gun-worshipping Republicans.
Georgia Senate blocks tax bill benefitting Delta Airlines
http://freebeacon.com/politics/georg...elta-airlines/
Senator Steve West has introduced a bill that would allow teachers in Kentucky to carry a gun. A similar bill has been proposed in Mississippi. Are students going to feel any safer knowing each of their teachers has a loaded gun? How about ensuring that crazy people can't get weapons in the first place? And then have an armed guard at every school entrance.
Mississippi Senate committee passes bill allowing teachers, staff to be armed
http://www.wreg.com/2018/02/27/ms-se...f-to-be-armed/
House Speaker Paul Ryan -- a Republican -- declared, "We shouldn't be banning guns from law-abiding citizens." Hey, Paul, tell me why "citizens" should be allowed to purchase AR-15 assault rifles, huh?
Congress to focus on background checks after Florida massacre
https://www.aol.com/article/news/201...acre/23372457/
Dick's will also no longer sell guns to anyone under 21. The CEO, whose father founded the chain, is urging Congress to ban assault rifles and raise the gun purchase age to 21 -- but we know that will never happen as long as Republicans control Congress.
Dick's Sporting Goods will stop selling assault-style rifles, high-capacity ammo magazines
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/compa...D=ansmsnnews11
Walmart quit selling AR-15s in 2015. Today the chain is following the lead of Dick's Sporting Goods:
Walmart raising age to buy guns and ammunition to 21
http://www.ajc.com/news/national/wal...G73DCxJJDc9rI/
Teachers should teach. They should not become armed guards. One student tweeted this message to Donald Trump and the NRA: "My favorite teacher at Dalton high school just blockaded his door and proceeded to shoot. We had to run out the back of the school in the rain. Students were being trampled and screaming. I dare you to tell me arming teachers will make us safe."
After their teacher fires a gun at school, Georgia students use opportunity to challenge Trump’s proposal
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-...228-story.html
Assault rifles used to be sold at Fred Meyer Stores in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Until today, assault rifles could be ordered from Fred Meyer stores in Alaska. Fred Meyer is joining Dick's Sporting Goods and Walmart in banning sales of guns and ammunition to minors. It's nice to know that not everyone in the US is in thrall to the NRA.
Kroger, the nation's biggest grocery chain, will no longer sell guns and ammunition to people under 21 at its Fred Meyer locations
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kroger-...hose-under-21/
A 1960 Frank Sinatra song asked "What's the matter with kids today?" -- and we're still asking that question 58 years later.
Texas teen arrested with semiautomatic rifle and ammo outside high school sporting event
http://www.timesunion.com/news/texas...h-12721169.php
Dick's, Walmart, Fred Meyer.......and now there are four:
L.L. Bean raises minimum age for gun purchases to 21
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/compa...D=ansmsnnews11
In this case, a suicide prevented a massacre -- but how many other angry deranged teens are planning school shootings.....and how do we discover the plots and get help for the teens? It's getting to the point where millions of kids are going to quit going to school because they fear shootings.
Police: Student who committed suicide at Ohio middle school planned school massacre
CBS News, Mar 2 2018 4:!7 PM
The death of a 13-year-old from Jackson, Ohio has been ruled a suicide and police said the teen intended to carry out a school shooting. The boy shot himself in the head with a semiautomatic rifle at Jackson Middle School on the morning of February 20, just six days after 17 people were killed in a shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida. According to Jackson Police Chief Mark Brink, notes on the student's phone showed an "admiration" for the Columbine shooters and an eight-step plan of "attack" on his middle school. The teen wrote: "I'll look in to those scared little britches [sic] in the eyes before I kill them. It's going to be fun. I'd hurt and destroy something bigger but my school is an easy target." Authorities said the student had 80 rounds of ammunition on him and did not know why he changed his mind about his alleged plans and shot himself.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-...hool-massacre/
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