Year: 2019
For the second year, US students across the country organized their peers and headed demonstrations protesting gun violence and advocating for firearm reform, as well as remembering the 17 high schoolers who lost their lives in the 2018 Parkland school shooting.
Chanting catchy slogans such as “hey hey, ho ho, the NRA has got to go” and “books not bullets,” students from Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC, took to Capitol Hill March 14 in “#NationalWalkoutDay” to voice their concerns and demand Congress take action to end gun violence. Continue reading “US Students Lobby for Gun Control in Second Annual National Walkout Day”
Brenton Tarrant was no amateur gun nut. He displayed complete cold detachment when murdering 39 human beings in the first Mosque. No fear, no heavy breathing, no excitement. Just cool and calm. When driving to the second location he calmly states that if he had got to the Mosque a bit later he would have gotten more women.
On viewing his self-made horror movie, the most glaring “fact” is the “fact” he is no amateur. Continue reading “Brendon O’Connell – Mosque Shooter Was Professionally Trained”
War crimes investigators working for the International Criminal Court (ICC) will be barred from entering America if they probe the actions of the country’s soldiers in Afghanistan and other locations, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said.
The Trump administration also said restrictions may also be placed on investigators examining alleged war crimes involving Israel. Continue reading “War crime investigators will be barred from entering US”
One person was killed, a Montana Highway Patrol trooper was in critical condition and two others were hospitalized after a shooting spree in Missoula and Evaro that resulted in the arrest of one suspect.
Trooper Wade Palmer, who was flown Friday afternoon to Salt Lake City for treatment, was shot in his patrol car after he found the suspect’s car near the Evaro Bar and Casino early Friday morning.
Less than a day after a terrorist attack at two mosques that left 49 people dead and several fighting for their lives, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she will change gun laws of the country, with the prime minister noting that the New Zealand government is now looking at banning semi-automatic weapons.
“While the nation grapples with a form of grief and anger that we have not experienced before, we are seeking answers,” Ardern said during a Saturday morning news conference in Wellington, cited by Bloomberg. “I can tell you one thing right now, our guns laws will change.” Continue reading “New Zealand To Change Gun Laws After Mosque Shooting”
ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) – A bill introduced in Missouri would require residents to own AR-15 guns.
Andrew McDaniel (R-Deering) introduced House Bill 1108 late last month. The bill would establish the McDaniel Militia Act, “which requires every person between 18 and 35 years of age who can legally possess a firearm to own an AR-15 and authorizes a tax credit for a purchase of an AR-15.” Continue reading “Missouri lawmaker introduces bill that would require AR-15 ownership”
The Trump administration has not built any walls to protect previously unbarricaded sections of America’s southern border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed exclusively to DailyMail.com on Thursday.
President Donald Trump has boasted in the past that ‘[w]e have already built large new sections’ during his time in the White House. Continue reading “Trump’s border agency says he has built ZERO walls”
Flooding in parts of the Midwest has left one man dead, forced a National Weather Service office to evacuate and threatens a Nebraska dam and nuclear power plant as heavy rains mixed with melting snowpack to swell waterways to historic levels.
In Nebraska, the rising Missouri River meant officials were preparing to shut down the Cooper Nuclear Plant in the town of Brownville, according to Omaha World-Herald reporter Nancy Gaarder. Continue reading “Deadly, Historic Flooding Swamps Plains, Midwest; Preparations Made to Shut Down Missouri River Nuclear Power Plant”
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An effort to make Maine the first state to require labels on foods made with the manipulation of tiny particles was shot down Thursday by a legislative committee.
Former Rep. John Eder wanted Maine to require labels for food products made with nanotechnology. Nanotechnology allows scientists to manipulate atoms and molecules and is touted by some as a way to enhance the appearance or nutritional quality of food. Maine’s Joint Standing Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry unanimously rejected the labeling idea during a meeting. Continue reading “Bid to require labels about nanotechnology in food shot down”
An attack on a New Zealand mosque was reportedly stopped on Friday when a good guy with a gun fired at the attacker[s] causing them to flee the scene, according to local media.
The terrorist attack left 49 dead and dozens injured with at least 30 of the deaths coming from the Masjid Al Noor mosque and at least 10 more deaths coming from the Linwood Masjid Mosque. Continue reading “Shooters Fled Second Mosque Attack As Good Guy With A Gun Returned Fire, Report Says”
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