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First New York Took Down Trump, Now They Got The NRA
New York Attorney General Letitia James won her other big case on Friday as the NRA and Wayne LaPierre were found liable for corruption in civil court.
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Trump Gets The Day And Time Wrong In NRA Speech Disaster
During Trump’s Pennsylvania NRA speech, the former president got the time of day wrong, and the day of the week wrong in the same sentence.
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Trump Slurs His Words And Get Facts Wrong In Pennsylvania
While sweating profusely at an event with the NRA in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump slurred his words and got basic facts wrong.
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Wayne LaPierre Resigns From The NRA Before Corruption Trial Begins
Before the civil corruption trial began in New York, Wayne LaPierre resigned from the NRA.
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Jordan Klepper Perfectly Takes Down The NRA
The Daily Show guest host Jordan Klepper showed how the NRA’s culture of fear leads to gun violence and shootings.
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Biden Crushes Republicans For Standing With The NRA After Alabama Mass Shooting
After America’s latest mass shooting in Alabama, President Biden asked a powerful moral question that Republicans can’t answer on gun violence.
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Trump Completely Loses It At NRA Speech And Previews GOP 2024 Disaster
Trump became more and more unhinged as his NRA speech dragged on until he attacked New York’s Attorney General and claimed that he is being persecuted.
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Jim Jordan Goes Full Snowflake And Whines About Being Sued By Alvin Bragg
House Judiciary Committee Chair Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) complained at the NRA Leadership Forum about being sued by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.
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NRA Orders House Republicans To Vote Against Gun Bills
House Republicans have been ordered by their leadership. after being told to do so by the NRA to vote against two gun bills. Andrew Solender of Axios tweeted the marching orders to House Republicans: The whip notice notes opposition to the bills from gun groups: pic.twitter.com/NSDeiWE5o8 — Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) June 7, 2022 Rep. Adam…
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Biden Brilliantly Turned The Tables On The NRA/GOP
President Biden turned the NRA and the Republican Party’s argument about protecting rights against them in his gun speech.
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Mitch McConnell Is The One Person Responsible For Kids Still Being Shot In School
The common thread through decades of Senate inaction on gun violence is Sen. Mitch McConnell obstructing gun reform.
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Trump Danced After Speech Where He Read The Names Of 19 Dead Uvalde Children
Donald Trump showed how little he cared about the victims of the Uvalde shooting by dancing at the end of his speech.
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‘This Time is Going to be Different’: Over 4,000 People Protest Outside NRA Convention
After the mass shooting at Uvalde Elementary, over 4,000 people protested the NRA on Friday. They were staged across from the George R. Brown Convention Center where the NRA’s convention is taking place in Houston.
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Guns Are Banned At Trump’s NRA Speech On Friday
The Secret Service banned guns during Donald Trump’s speech at the NRA annual meeting on Friday.
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Herschel Walker Twice Threatened To Blow A Woman’s Head Off And He Won’t Say He Supports Gun Reform
Twice accused of threatening to blow a woman’s head off, Georgia Senate GOP nominee Herschel Walker dodged a question asking if he believes there should be new gun laws in the wake of the Texas shooting by saying, “What I like to do is see it and everything and stuff.â€
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Rachel Maddow Unloads Both Barrels Exposing Josh Hawley And The NRA’s Illegal Scheme
Rachel Maddow highlighted the Giffords lawsuit that accused the NRA of making $35 million in illegal contributions to Republicans like Josh Hawley and Trump.
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Former NRA President Tricked Into Appearing in Gun-Control Videos
While we seem to finally be gaining ground on the COVID-19 pandemic, there is one public health crisis to which we appear powerless. That is the epidemic of gun violence. According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been 305 mass shootings as of this writing. 3,044 students did not have the opportunity to graduate high…
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Trump Says NRA Didn’t Take His Advice to “Get Out of New York” Before NY Sued to Dissolve Them
In August, the state of New York sued the National Rifle Association (NRA), arguing that misspending and corruption justified dissolving the organization for good. According to President Donald Trump, who called in to speak with the hosts of “Fox and Friends” earlier this morning, the NRA is in trouble after not taking his advice to…
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New York AG Letitia James: Execs Used NRA as “Their Personal Piggy Bank”
Letitia James has claimed some people at the National Rifle Association used the organization as their “personal piggy bank” as she moves to dissolve the gun group. The New York Attorney General spoke to MSNBC’s Rachael Maddow on Thursday following her announcement the previous day of her intention to seek the NRA’s dissolution. James caused…
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NY Attorney General Letitia James Moves To Dissolve The NRA
NY Attorney General Letitia James has moved to dissolve the NRA after a state investigation found rampant fraud and abuse by top officials. NPR reported: Attorney General Letitia James claims in a lawsuit filed Thursday that she found financial misconduct in the millions of dollars, and that it contributed to a loss of more than…
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GOP Congressman Dismissive Of ‘Beer Virus’ Skipped Paid Leave Vote To Go To NRA Event Instead
A congressman from the northernmost state in the Union told seniors last week they had nothing to worry about coronavirus infecting them, calling such concerns “overblown” during an event last week. “They call it the coronavirus. I call it the beer virus. How do you like that?” Rep. Don Young, a Republican from Alaska, said…
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The NRA Has Been Charged With Breaking Insurance Laws
The state of New York has charged the NRA with acting as an unlicensed insurance agent and deceptive marketing practices.
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Senate Finds NRA Provided Russians Access To Republicans For Money
A Senate investigation has found that the NRA provided Russians access to Republicans in exchange for lucrative business opportunities.
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Republican NRA Suckers Get Conned As Wayne LaPierre Spends $200K On Beverly Hills Suits
The NRA board let Wayne LaPierre charge $440,000 to the “nonprofit,” $200,000 of which was for suits. Suits he bought in Beverly Hills. Oh, and trips! He spent $240,000 on trips to Italy, Hungary, and the Bahamas, and charged the NRA “without providing adequate documentation.”
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Trump accuses New York state of trying to take down the NRA over Letitia James’ subpoenas
It has worked closely with legislators to protect firearms manufacturers from liability for gun violence and pushed a ban on U.S. health officials from promoting gun control.
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Trump heeds NRA, decides to pull U.S. out of Obama-era U.N. arms treaty
“The United States will now lock arms with Iran, North Korea and Syria as non-signatories to this historic treaty whose sole purpose is to protect innocent people from deadly weapons,” said Oxfam America President Abby Maxman.
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How Putin’s People Infiltrated the NRA to Help Trump and the GOP
The Daily Beast has reported that the National Rifle Association (NRA) was infiltrated by Russian intelligence agents, and top officials in the Kremlin knew all about it. The Russian government has always denied they had any involvement in the infiltration of the NRA, but new reporting from U.S. intelligence agencies shows that this is not…
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NRA Election Spending Is Cut In Half As Gun Debate Changes
So far this year the National Rifle Association (NRA) has spent just $11 million on midterm races, less than half of the amount of money it spent on the midterms in 2014. The National Rifle Association, long seen as a kingmaker in Republican politics, is taking a lower profile in this year's midterm campaign. It…
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Rabbi Trashes Trump for Blaming Synagogue Deaths on Lack of Security
A leading Jewish rabbi expressed the feelings of millions of Americans when he appeared on CNN and criticized President Donald Trump for some of his remarks which followed the mass murder in Pittsburgh on Saturday. Rabbi Joshua Stanton directly responded to Trump who had blamed the death toll in the synagogue massacre to a lack…
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Jet Fuel Scheme Shows The Link Between The NRA And Russia
The former president of the NRA and his wife worked with Maria Butina on a scheme to sell jet fuel that got Butina on the FBI’s radar and highlighted the link between the NRA and Russia.
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The Noose Tightens As Robert Mueller Likely Has The NRA’s Tax Returns
The NRA’s problems might be even worse than imagined as legal experts say that Mueller already has their tax returns, according to MSNBC’s Ari Melber.
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Sen. Joni Ernest Is Reeling As She Gets Called Out For Getting Millions Of Dollars In Help From The NRA
Sen. Joni Ernest had to lie to an Iowa crowd about getting millions of dollars in support from the NRA as the gun lobby is growing toxic in the heartland.
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The NRA May Have To Shut Down NRATV Because They Can’t Get Insurance
The NRA has been unable to renew their media liability insurance because they are a reputational risk which means that they may have to close down NRA TV.
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James Comey Rips The NRA For Lying And Selling Fear To The American People
Former FBI Director, and gun owner, James Comey ripped the NRA for selling fear and lying to the American people about gun rights.
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Mueller Secretly Obtained NRA Tax Returns With List of ‘Dark Money’ Donors
Many people think it is unusual that the National Rifle Association (NRA) has heard nothing from the FBI or the Mueller investigation concerning the funneling of Russian money through the NRA into Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Since NRA contacts with Russia have been documented, and since the NRA contributed $30 million to Trump’s bid to…
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Top Russians Met With NRA Executives During 2016 Campaign
There are new reports that prominent Russians who are friends of Russian President Vladimir Putin had numerous contacts with officials from the National Rifle Association (NRA) during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. Investigative reporter McClatchy said that the identification of the Russians was made through photographs and through a confidential source within the NRA. An…
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DeVos: Safety Commission Won’t Study Role of Guns in School Violence
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos testified on Capital Hill Tuesday saying that the role of guns in school violence was “not a priority” of the Federal Commission on School Safety formed after 17 people were murdered in a Parkland, Florida school shooting in February. In a tweet, the New York Times said “Betsy DeVos…
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Parkland Students Rip Trump on Twitter For NRA Speech
President Donald Trump couldn’t resist going to the national convention of the National Rifle Association (NRA) in Dallas on Friday to soak up adulation from the adoring crowd of 80,000 gun lovers. He gave a speech that succeeded in stirring up the crowd by stressing that the unfettered right to own weapons was more important…
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Illinois City Bans Assault Rifles — Imposes Fines of $1,000 Per Day
When 17 people were killed by a teenager with an assault rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on Valentine’s day, a renewed national debate on gun control laws erupted.  Many gun control advocates began pushing anew for a complete ban on assault-style rifles and also large capacity magazines, since these are…
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Florida Legislator Feeling the Power of the Parkland Students
A Florida state legislator named Randy Fine is not going to be so fine after the student activists from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School set their sights on him. At a school safety meeting in Melbourne, Florida Fine said he planned to introduce three bills that would undo the Florida Legislature’s actions this year on…
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Trump Sending Conflicting Messages While Leading On Gun Reform
Ever since seventeen children were tragically killed and another sixteen injured last month in yet another school shooting at Marjorie Stoneman-Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the nation has been embroiled in a national debate which has been amplified by the survivors of that tragic event. Key to the debate has been the age requirement or…
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New Poll Shows Most Americans Think Arming & Training Teachers Is a Horrible Way to Stop School Shootings
A new NBC poll released Thursday morning should be a wakeup call to the NRA and its supporters in Washington, including President Trump. Â Most people think that putting more guns in schools is a really bad idea. The truth is that arming teachers is a crazy idea that could only be thought up by the…
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Mitch McConnell Ignores Students’ Pleas For Gun Control And Goes for Gutting Banking Bill
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is a coward and a crook. Instead of working to pass legislation addressing the gun violence epidemic in our country, he is turning to gutting consumer protections in a banking bill.
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As DACA Deadline Looms Trump Compares Immigrants To Snakes
At a time when Congress is trying to work out a deal for Dreamers and address other issues regarding our nation’s immigration system, this was especially offensive and ludicrous.
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Broward County Sheriff Busts NRA Talking Points: ‘We Need Less Guns In America, Not More’
“Lawmakers got to change the way they do things. The same old same old just ain’t working. … We need less guns in America, not more guns in America.”
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Thousands Gather At Parkland Vigil To Tell The NRA To ‘Stop Killing Our Kids’
The NRA-owned president and Congress may not want to talk about guns in the aftermath of yet another mass shooting, but those in Parkland, Florida are demanding immediate action from lawmakers.
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Sandy Hook Senator Wants To Know How Many More People Will Die Before ‘Complicit’ GOP Acts
“This one is the 18th school shooting just this year … Congress has been complicit. Congress bears responsibility.”
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The FBI Is Investigating The NRA For Being A Front For Illegal Russian Money To Help Trump
The FBI has opened an investigation into whether the NRA took illegal Russian money to help Trump during the 2016 election.
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The NRA Just Put Tens Of Thousands Of Dollars Toward Electing Accused Child Molester Roy Moore
Just when we thought the National Rifle Association couldn’t be any more repugnant, the extremist gun organization rises to the occasion to prove all of us wrong.
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Chris Murphy Says Virginia’s Democratic Wave Proves That NRA Blood Money Is Losing Its Influence
As gun violence continues to rear its ugly head all across this country, the American people want to see real change, not more extremist, guns-everywhere rhetoric from the NRA.
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Mike Pence Goes To Sutherland Springs And Blames Everything But Guns For Church Massacre
The grieving people of Sutherland Springs were treated to the same old rhetoric that blames everything – laws, bureaucracy, and mental health – other than guns.
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Air Force Mistake Allowed Texas Gunman To Buy The Weapon He Used To Kill 26 People
Twenty-six Americans, many of them children, might be alive today if not for an unimaginable oversight by the U.S. Air Force.
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Money Over Lives: The NRA Invested Over $50 Million In Trump And GOP Candidates In 2016
If you’re wondering why Republican leaders refuse to act after such unspeakable violence, just follow the money.
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Your Thoughts And Prayers Aren’t Working: At Least 20 Killed In Sickening Church Mass Shooting
To GOP politicians: When you repeatedly shed crocodile tears over mass shootings, then follow it up by refusing to do anything to prevent the next one, nobody hears you anymore.
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Top Bump Stock Manufacturer To Resume Sales Of Deadly Device After GOP Congress Refuses To Act
A satisfied gun lobby that keeps raking in the dough means GOP campaign coffers remain full going into next year’s midterm elections. Apparently, everything else is irrelevant.
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Two-Thirds Of Voters Demand Tougher Gun Laws After GOP Pretends Vegas Shooting Never Happened
Republicans may continue to live in their NRA-funded bubbles, but it’s clear the American people – Democrats, Independents and Republicans – are still hungry for tougher gun laws.Â
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NRA backs ‘bump stocks’ regulations after Las Vegas massacre
The U.S. gun lobby, which has seldom embraced new firearms-control measures, expressed a willingness to support a restriction on the rifle accessory that enabled a Las Vegas gunman to strafe a crowd with bursts of sustained gunfire as if from an automatic weapon.The U.S. gun lobby, which has seldom embraced new firearms-control measures, expressed a willingness to support a restriction on the rifle accessory that enabled a Las Vegas gunman to strafe a crowd with bursts of sustained gunfire as if from an automatic weapon.
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‘We Cannot Wait’: John Lewis Blasts Trump For Refusing To Talk About Gun Violence
“The time is always right to do what is right. We waited too long. How many more people will die?”
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Save Your Prayers, Republicans: It’s Time To Actually Do Something About America’s Gun Problem
Tonight, dozens of people who were alive 24 hours ago no longer are, and many of the leaders who offer their condolences will likely do nothing to prevent the next American massacre.
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‘Silence Is No Longer An Option’: Chris Murphy To Introduce New Gun Safety Legislation
“This silence has become unintentional endorsement. It’s become a kind of sick complicity.”
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Trump Just Showed That He Is Terrified Of Facing Elizabeth Warren In 2020
Donald Trump is so worried about his reelection in 2020 that he is already launching racist attacks against Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
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Silence on San Bernardino School Shooting Speaks Shuddering the Soul
That this this school shooting went by without any substantive cries to address our nation’s gun culture and safety laws, especially regarding domestic abusers, is another indictment against this impervious predicament.
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Opinion: Florida Supreme Court Rules “Open Carry†is Not Protected By 2nd Amendment
The Florida High Court’s Justices ruled that the Second Amendment does not protect that ridiculous “open carry” practice and it was another setback for the NRA’s attempts to force the nation’s courts to abolish any and all firearm restrictions as unconstitutional.
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Trump Signs Measure Restoring Access To Guns For Thousands Of Mentally Ill Americans
The rule would have applied to 75,000 people who were deemed mentally unfit to purchase a firearm.
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Justice Denied for Merrick Garland and the American People
Justice has not only been denied to a worthy Supreme Court nominee and the work of the high court. It continues to be denied to the American people.
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It’s Time To Expel Senate Republicans For Violating the Constitution
“If Hillary Clinton becomes president, I am going to do everything I can to make sure four years from now, we still got an opening on the Supreme Court.â€
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Clinton Destroys NRA Myths About Her, Shines A Light On Gun Violence In Third Debate
Once again, Hillary Clinton showed that she is in step with the vast majority of Americans while Donald Trump desperately clung to NRA talking points.
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No Response from Trump about Houston Nazi Mass ShooterÂ
The man was wearing military clothes with Nazi patches and emblems and armed with a handgun, a machine gun and 2,600 rounds of “live ammunition.”
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Desperate GOP Uses Bullet-Ridden Wanted Poster to Save John McCain’s Senate Seat
In a state and country that knows the toll of gun violence too well, there is no room for invoking the use of firearms in our politics.
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NRA Defends Trump With $3 Million Anti-Clinton Ad After 2nd Amendment Remark
The NRA is coming to Trump’s defense spending millions of dollars to spread lies about Hillary Clinton because they know he will do their bidding.”
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NRA Calls Slavery Apologist Newsletter ‘Astute’ and ‘Timely’
Jeff Cooper’s newsletter was unabashadly pro-black slavery but the NRA’s Frank Winn says racial slurs are “erudite” and support for the institution of slavery “timely”
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SCOTUS Rules That Domestic Abusers Can Be Barred From Owning Guns
If you’re a domestic violence offender, the Supreme Court says you don’t have a Second Amendment right to a firearm.
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Most Americans, Including SCOTUS, Disagree With Republicans On Gun Safety Regulations
92 percent of Americans support expanded background checks and 85 percent support preventing people on watch lists from buying guns; Republicans disagree.
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In November, Republicans In Congress Must Pay For Their Addiction To NRA Money
The 56 Republican senators who voted against gun violence legislation on Monday have received a combined total of $36 million from the National Rifle Association.
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Donald Trump Comes Up With A Gun Plan That’s So Crazy Even The NRA Won’t Support It
Donald Trump’s plan to allow drunk people to have guns in bars to “prevent terrorism” is so crazy that two top NRA officials rejected it on national television.
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Watch A Simple Policy Question Turn Trump Into A Sarah Palin Level Babbling Mess
When Face The Nation host John Dickerson asked Trump what the policy difference was between the candidate and the NRA on no-fly no buy legislation in Congress, the answer he got was a rambling, empty meltdown.
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Insane Donald Trump Thanks the LGBT Community for Supporting Him
“Thank you to the LGBT community! I will fight for you while Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs.”
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There Have Been 196 Shootings In The U.S. Since The Tragic Massacre In Orlando – When Will We Act?
How many more will die before America decides enough is enough?
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Trump Says He Will Seek Anti-Terrorism Advice from the Domestic Terrorist-Loving NRA
“I will be meeting with the NRA…to discuss how to ensure Americans have the means to protect themselves in this age of terror.”
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Little Acknowledgment That LGBT People Were Targeted in Orlando Gun Massacre
“This is an especially heartbreaking day for our friends, our fellow Americans, who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.”
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Ted Nugent Says ‘Nothing more anti-American than the freaks that hate me’
Watch out, because Nugent says the only thing more dangerous than a “sow Grizzly bear with cubs is Ted Nugent with more confidence.”
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It’s Obscene That No One Calls Bernie Sanders on His FEC Troubles
Democrats are not prone to demean a fellow Democrat’s character and it is an inclination many Democrats wish Senator Sanders would embrace.
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Hillary Clinton Displays Historic Candidate Courage By Taking On the Gun Lobby
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has shown unprecedented courage in taking on the gun lobby – a position no other presidential candidate has taken on.
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Ted Nugent Calls Obama a Racist Child-Killing Freak
Ted Nugent claims Obama is trying to kill children by creating gun-free zones but he’s the one refusing to keep guns out of the wrong hands
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President Obama Drops A Fact Bomb And Obliterates The NRA At CNN Gun Town Hall
During the nationally televised town hall on gun violence on CNN, President Obama called out the NRA for not showing up and revealed that the Obama White House has repeatedly invited the NRA to the White House, but they have declined to show up.
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Liberals Roar As Elizabeth Warren Vows To Mobilize Democrats To Defeat The NRA
“If the Republican Party would rather work for the NRA than the American people and if they won’t do their jobs to keep our children safe, then somebody else has to step up,” Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) charged during a press call.
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The NRA Is So Afraid Of Obama That They Refuse To Participate In Gun Violence Town Hall
The NRA was invited to participate in President Obama’s nationally televised town hall on gun violence, but instead of defending their positions, the NRA declined to participate.
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GOP Admits Gun Action Isn’t Much, But They Will Wage War For The NRA
Paul Ryan promises to take the President to court to put a stop to his violating orders from the National Rifle Association.
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Time to Stop Blaming the NRA for Gun Violence and Focus on Cowardly Republicans Instead
Although the NRA hands out millions to Republican congressmen, neither the NRA nor its insane leader, Wayne La Pierre, get to cast a vote
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Against NRA Opposition Sen. Feinstein Pushes To End Gun Sales To Suspected Terrorists
Senator Feinstein is leading an effort to bar gun sales to people on the Terrorist Watchlist, but the NRA is fighting her efforts.
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Kochs Secretly Fund the NRA, Chamber of Commerce, Religious Right and Club For Growth
Every Republican at every level of government spouts the same lie, the same twisted logic, to harm American workers
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Thanks to the NRA Over 2000 Suspected Terrorists Were Able to Buy Guns in the U.S.
Here’s an issue that President Obama has been begging Congress to fix, along with pretty much all sane law enforcement: Known terrorists can buy guns legally here in the United States of “freedom”. Yes, we can’t have nice things like refusing to sell handguns or assault weapons to suspected terrorists, because the NRA is too worried about the profits of the gun manufacturers they represent.
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Barbaric Oregon Gun Zealots “Politicize” Presidential Meeting To Comfort Grieving Families
Apparently what the gun maniacs in Oregon are up in arms over is the concept of gun safety as a political issue; they are livid that President Obama said as much.
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Boehner Lies and Blames Obama and Democrats For GOP Blocking Of Gun Safety Bills
Now that President Obama and a couple of Americans are asking why Congress cannot take action to reduce the frequency of mass shootings, John Boehner has come up with a typical Republican answer; it is not their fault or their responsibility to act.
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Australians Disgusted With America Call To Boycott This Violent and Immature Nation
Some 2.1 million Australians visit the U.S. annually and the call for boycott is likely motivated as much by self-preservation as disgust
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Bernie Sanders Terrifies The NRA With Consensus Plan To Reduce Mass Shootings
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) became the NRA’s worse nightmare by announcing consensus steps that can be taken to lessen the number of mass shootings in the US.
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Oregon College Massacre Is a Product of the NRA-Republican’s Structurally Violent America
Gun violence comes courtesy of the tireless effort and machinations of Republicans and the NRA to create a structurally violent country
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Refusing to Bow to the Gun Lobby, Hillary Clinton Talks Gun Sense
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton continues to champion common sense gun reform on the 2016 campaign trail.
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Americans Should be Allowed to View the Horror of Now-Daily Mass Shootings
Every American should have the experience of seeing the sheer terror, hear the screams, and watch the bloodletting of innocent Americans
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Where Is The Shame That The World Sees Americans As Racist And Extremists?
Everything bad about America that the rest of the world sees increasing, and Americans feel, is purely Republican and it is truly pathetic
