Another day, another mass shooting

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The NRA ousted its president and its top lobbyist, three board members resigned – and then there was that little issue of being infiltrated by a Russian agent. The NRA is in chaos right now but they need to hurry and get their problems taken care of. In the next 15 months prior to Election Day, the NRA will be very busy trying to ensure no gun-control legislation gets passed. Gunmen armed with semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity ammo magazines have an inalienable right, granted by the 2nd Amendment, to commit mass murders. The NRA is not about to let any loony, leftist, un-American "gun grabbers" take away that right.

The gun control fight has started. Could turmoil at the NRA be a game-changer?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ol/1942846001/

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In his 1941 State Of The Union address, President Franklin Roosevelt said everyone should be guaranteed freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want and freedom from fear. Since Emperor Trump has been in office, each of those freedoms is being eroded. Trump demonizes Muslims, Hispanics and immigrants. He ruthlessly attacks Democrats and the news media. His trade wars are hurting American farmers and the middle class. His hateful, racist, fear-mongering, white nationalist rhetoric is dividing us, not uniting us. It is Trump and his blindly loyal supporters vs. everyone else in our nation. Trump has not made America "great." He has made America hate. Our nation and our democracy can not survive an additional four years of Emperor Trump. We need to ensure he loses in 2020.

'It feels like being hunted': Latinos across US in fear after El Paso massacre

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/it...cre/ar-AAFrkfS

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Two hundred fifty-three mass shootings so far this year in the United States of America. Let's have a show of hands: Who thinks America is "great" now?

Time magazine's striking cover lists the 253 US cities that experienced a mass shooting this year

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/08/media...rnd/index.html

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Despite Emperor Trump's claims to the contrary, the shooting victims in Dayton and El Paso did not shower him with "love and respect." Many refused to meet with him. Trump used his hospital visits as a photo op. He smugly grinned, gave a thumbs-up and posed for pictures while those who were wounded in last weekend's massacres lay in hospital beds and the bodies of those who were killed remain at the morgue. In Trumpworld, the Land of Delusions, everything is about Trump. Everything.

El Paso hospital worker says Trump showed 'an absence of empathy' during visit to shooting victims

https://hillreporter.com/hospital-wo...s-report-42943

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Prior to his inauguration, Emperor Trump told the NRA, "You have a friend in the White House." He's threatened to veto two House-passed bills expanding background checks should the bills be passed by the Senate. Today he told reporters he wants stronger background checks that will keep guns out of the hands of "sick and demented people." He claims Mitch McConnell and the Republicans are "on board" with him. They are not. A Microsoft News poll beneath this Washington Post story asks, "Do you think Trump is sincere in his support for stronger background checks?" Right now, 63% say no, 24% say yes and 13% are unsure.

Trump claims strong Congressional support for strengthening background checks for gun buys, at odds with GOP statements

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...nts/ar-AAFzIYb

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Yes, because if a 19-year-old white nationalist catches a glimpse of copies of Metro Exodus, Cadence Of Hyrule and Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare as he's walking to the back of the store to buy a semiautomatic assault rifle, a high-capacity ammo magazine and several rounds of ammunition, there's no telling what he might do!

Walmart pulls violent video game displays from its stores but will still sell guns

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/09/busin...mes/index.html

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On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza shot and killed his mother, then shot and killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School before killing himself. Since that time, there have been almost 2,200 mass shootings in the United States. Two hundred fifty-three of those have occurred in the first 28 weeks of this year. Is America "great" yet?

When 'back to school' means back to mass-shooting fears
High-profile massacres have created ambient, worsening anxiety about gun violence on K-12 campuses.

https://www.theatlantic.com/educatio...nxiety/595723/

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This 23-year-old had an unregistered firearm and was planning to make Molotov cocktails and IEDs and attack Jews and gays. He had been in contact with a white supremacist organization that encourages attacks on gays and minorities. And Emperor Trump, a racist, bigoted, immigrant-hating white nationalist, doesn't see the white supremacy movement as a growing threat. Welcome to Trumpworld.

Las Vegas man accused of plotting to bomb synagogues, gay bar

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/la...bar/ar-AAFAVO7

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All the Democratic Presidential candidates want expanded background checks. All the Democratic Presidential candidates want assault weapons banned. And all the Democratic Presidential candidates cite the same obstacles to getting gun-control legislation passed: Trump, Republicans and the NRA. Voters need to ask themselves why Trump, Republicans and the NRA are uninterested in trying to reduce gun violence. Why do they regard every American's right to life as unimportant?

Democrats in Iowa offer plans to combat gun violence

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...nce/ar-AAFCth5

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While Emperor Trump is busy attacking Mexicans, Muslims, immigrants and asylum seekers, almost all the mass shootings in the United States are committed by white, male, American-born, right-wing extremists. Trump chooses to ignore that fact. Front-page headline in the print edition of today's Los Angeles Times:

Right-wing extremism stymies FBI
Recent mass shootings reveal the bureau's difficulty in halting domestic terrorism by white supremacists.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/sto...ht-wing-groups