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The Senate voted Wednesday to rescind one of the final rules implemented by the Obama administration, which was a gun control measure.
However, as upsetting as it is that entire cities are ignoring laws that protect our sovereignty, the idea of a sanctuary city isn't as bad as you might think. I don't see anything wrong with the basic premise of a community or a city ignoring laws that they think are harmful to them. I only disagree with it in regards to illegal immigration. Cities should be allowed to do this, provided they're willing to face the consequences, such as defunding by the feds.
The only real problem with the idea of sanctuary cities is that conservatives and libertarians haven't utilized the concept in their own communities. They haven't worked up the nerve to ignore the onerous rules of a government they have long complained about. For instance, why haven't they decided to create sanctuaries for gun rights? Places where cities and towns can ignore state and federal gun laws that they don't like?
In a stunning victory for the pro-gun community, the first bill to repeal an Obama anti-gun measure is now headed to President Trump's desk. Earlier today, the Senate voted to overturn Barack Obama's Social Security Gun Ban. [The vote in the Senate was 57-43, with all Republicans voting for the repeal. They were joined by only four Democrats and one Independent. The earlier House vote was 235-180.]
She looked like a pro, although police note that "the rifle did not have a magazine in it and it did not have the stock attached."
The New York Times (NYT), the New York Daily News (NYDN), and The Huffington Post (HuffPo) are responding to the Senate vote to repeal the Social Security gun ban by accusing GOP lawmakers of helping the mentally ill get guns.
Starting with a little backstory — it is believed that underground tunnels are used for top secret military and intelligence purposes as well as drug smuggling, human trafficking, and even prison breaks.
New Overdrive research shows large concerns over threats to personal safety. Though varying state convealed-carry laws make it difficult to cross state lines and remain in compliance, many truckers stick to their guns.
Both cases were being investigated in the city, which saw an average of more than two murders and nearly 10 shootings every single day last year.
See how well gun control works?
The next time you hear NBC objecting to "fake news," you can shout "Remember Rossen!" at the TV.
On Thursday, NBC reporter Jeff Rossen aired a breathless report claiming "Loophole Lets Criminals Buy Untraceable 'Ghost Guns' Online," in which he claimed criminals are buying parts online to easily assemble fully working AR-15s using only simple tools.
In fact, NBC shipped those AR-15 parts to a former ATF agent with a substantial machine shop. Though his lathe, mill and drill press are plainly visible in the video, NBC shows him using only a hand drill.
This is fake news at its worst: Converting an 80 percent completed lower receiver into a reliable, functioning firearm component requires machine tools working to exacting tolerances. The majority of these builds involve a CNC (Computer Numerical Controlled) milling machine. Such machines cannot be borrowed or rented for the purpose; nor can owners of these machines be hired to do the work.
Liberals are wetting their Depends over this.
Thanks to the liberal media for getting out this story. The more they scream, the more the product sells.
What's a liberal to do?
Old Hickory is President Trump's model.
I thank God that my life has been spent in a land of liberty and that He has given me a heart to love my country with the affection of a son.Andrew Jackson Firsts, Lasts & Onlys
First president to be a resident of a state other than Massachusetts or Virginia
First Tennessee representative to the U.S. House
First president to ride a train
First president to be assaulted while in office
First president to be the target of an assassination attempt
First president born to immigrant parents
Last president to serve in the Revolutionary War (he participated at age 13!)
Only president to have been held as a prisoner of war
Only president to raise a Native American child—Lyncoya, who was found orphaned after the Battle of Tallushatchee (1813)
Only president to serve in both the American Revolution and the War of 1812
Only president to pay off the national debt
ALL (109) of the countries above America,HAVE100% gun bans.
It might be of interest to note that SWITZERLANDis not shown on this list, because it has… NO MURDER OCCURRENCE!
However, SWITZERLAND 'S law requires that EVERYONE:
1. Own a gun.
2. Maintain Marksman qualifications … regularly .
Did you learn anything from this??
I think the message is – loud and clear..
Not surprisingly, the newly-created and self-appointed "fake news detector" websites are claiming this is fiction.
The California State Senate agrees with Charlie Rangel that they "deserve" to own guns but the citizens do not! Every year they pass more and more gun control laws and NONE of them apply to themselves!
They voted 28-8 to exempt themselves from the gun-control laws that apply to the rest of the California.
A website that spread scare stories on crimes allegedly committed by foreigners, and sold guns dubbed "migrant deterrents" to Germans, has been taken offline. Police are looking for the far-right owner of the "migrant horror" site.
The Migrantenschreck website was run by a Budapest-based company owned by far-right German activist Mario Roensch, 33, according to Die Zeit. Roensch comes from the city of Erfurt, where he organized several anti-refugee demonstrations in 2014.
The guns on sale were exported from Hungary, where they are legal, to Germany where they are not.
The left has done a stellar job of demonizing Trump supporters and Republicans in general. Their excellent persuasion involves conflating the bad apples with the entire group. Both sides do it. The right calls everyone on the left selfish snowflakes, and the left calls everyone on the right racists. They do it because it works. The brain likes to conflate things. And if the shiniest object in our view involves headlines about racists, or lefty rioters, those images stick in our minds and taint our impressions of the entire group.
The liberal freak out over President Trump's executive order targeting 7 countries with a temporary travel ban has reached new heights with almost every news outlet dedicated to attacking the order and hysterically spreading disinformation to the American people.
Today, the Montana House passed a bill that would authorize a person to carry a handgun on U.S. Postal Service property in the state and set the foundation to nullify in effect an unconstitutional federal firearms regulation.
Rep. Randy Brodehl (R-Kalispell) introduced House Bill 246 (HB246) on Jan. 13. The legislation would allow handguns in U.S. Post Office buildings and on their property.
And a staged mass shooting by the gun grabbers will happen in five, four, three, two ...
In an attempt to address the ongoing budget problem in Illinois, Sen. Hutchinson decided to tax Illinois residents' Second Amendment rights, and by extension, their right to safety. Under SA 2, a 5% tax would be imposed on any membership or access fee for gun clubs, shooting ranges, hunt clubs, training classes and match fees. Not only is this an abhorrent tax on your Second Amendment rights, it also requires that any of those places/people to register with the state and pay an annual fee of $75 just so that they can offer their service or membership with the 5% tax added.
This good Samaritan beat the %$#! out of the attacker! With his cane!
Rodney Goldman didn't think twice about coming to the defense of a RideKC bus driver he saw struggling against an attacker early Saturday.
The 56-year-old Goldman, a frequent rider on the bus, knew the driver by sight but not by name. Regardless, he was raised not to stand for anyone mistreating a woman, and when he saw a disturbed passenger holding the female driver in a headlock, Goldman beat the attacker with his cane until it broke.
"My adrenaline kicked in, and I did what I had to do," Goldman said later in an interview. "I just got my cane."
The game wasn't invented by citizens. It was created by thugs. And day-by-day, people are waking up that if they don't like the game, they don't have to play. Clerks, pizza delivery drivers, security guards, and just normal everyday citizens are making the decision to carry a gun.
Reversing this asinine ammunition ban is a good start.
Overall, I have to say that President Trump appears to have good intentions for the preservation of the Second Amendment. It appears that he is trying to wiggle a lot of the political nuance out of the state level decision-making.
As some cities are becoming sanctuaries for illegal immigrants, Spokane Valley, Washington, is poised to become a sanctuary city of a different type: one where people committed to the Second Amendment can live without fear of being disarmed.
One such regulation, which seemingly disappeared within the hustle and bustle of inauguration day, was a new order issued by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe just 12 hours before our new President was sworn into office.
A convenience store robbery was interrupted Thursday morning in Wesley Chapel when a legally armed customer shot the suspect.
According to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office, Christopher Michael Lilly, 31, who lives in the area, entered the 54 Food Mart gas station at 26556 Wesley Chapel Boulevard just before 7 a.m., pointed a firearm at the clerk and demanded money.
A customer in the store with a legally concealed weapon shot the suspect in the right thigh. Authorities have not released the name of the man who fired his weapon.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe, an Obama appointee, ordered a new ammunition ban for certain federal lands on Thursday–his last full day in office.
The ban, which took effect immediately, eliminates the use of lead-based ammunition on federal lands like national parks and wildlife refuges, as well as any other land administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service.The ban is expected to have a major impact on much of the hunting that takes place on federal lands across the United States as lead-based ammunition is widely legal and used throughout the country.
Ashe said the order was necessary to protect wildlife from exposure to lead.
If you haven't had a chance to check out President Trump's new White House website, I highly suggest you do so. It's great and says things that we would probably never believe would be posted there. He begins "The dangerous anti-police atmosphere in America is wrong. The Trump Administration will end it." Trump then points out that more guns make society safer, not less safe. This sound like the first sane, honest President in my lifetime! Once again, as opposed to mere police adulation, he supports the people and their right to bear arms! "Supporting law enforcement means supporting our citizens' ability to protect themselves. We will uphold Americans' Second Amendment rights at every level of our judicial system. President Trump is committed to building a border wall to stop illegal immigration, to stop the gangs and the violence, and to stop the drugs from pouring into our communities."
A concealed carry permit holder stopped an armed robber Sunday at a San Antonio, Texas mall after the perpetrator shot and killed an unarmed man.
According to News 4 San Antonio, two armed men tried to rob Kay Jewelers at the Rolling Oaks Mall just after 3:30 p.m. local time.
An unarmed Good Samaritan attempted to intervene to stop the robbery but was shot and killed by one of the suspects. Another man with a firearm shot and injured the suspect who allegedly killed the unarmed man.
Seen this story on CNN yet?
Purses are for lipstick.
Women take up arms.
Great Commercial.
the good news is: it's mostly over and you survived
CNN needs to be shut down and Wol Blitzer needs to be arrested!
As the nation prepares for the peaceful transfer of power on Inauguration Day, CNN is dreaming up scenarios whereby the Obama administration can keep power if President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence were blown up as they prepared to take to oath of office.
On the Wednesday, January 18 broadcast of CNN's The Situation Room, host Wolf Blitzer aired a segment with a chyron featuring the headline "Developing Now." During that "developing" segment, Blitzer and correspondent Brian Todd discussed what would happen if the unthinkable occurred on January 20.
Special note for California residents: Due to new legislation in California, most of our offerings cannot currently be shipped there. We are studying your new laws to see what new California compliant models we will be able to offer. In the mean time, you have our condolences.
Another reason Claire and I will never live in California again!
'Liberal Larry' has a message for the evil gun that snuck on an airplane in Alaska and killed all those people in Florida.
Utilizing on-the-record research, documents and investigative reports from Seymour Hersh [Hillary Approved Sending Libya's Sarin to Syrian Rebels], Eva Bartlett [ALEPPO: How US & Suadi-Backed Rebels Target 'Every Syrian'] and other talented and courageous journalists, Webb's series provides a quantifiable visual roadmap to the who's who of the Deep State criminal mafia.
Fresh out on the street after doing 10 years for armed robbery and carjacking, Glenn Edward Oliver, 30, decided it would be a good idea to try again. Second time's the charm, right?
We've got Maine to the right of us and Vermont to the left… Stuck in the middle with ingrained New Hampshire politics. We know we can do it. Maine has done it. Vermont has ALWAYS done it. Why not us?
We covered the attempted robbery of a Georgia store just after Christmas. It didn't go so well for one of the robbers, who was killed at the scene. The other fled. We now have security camera video of that incident. To paraphrase Gunsite founder Jeff Cooper, you aren't any more armed by buying a gun than you are a musician because you bought a piano. To be any good, you're going to need training, and you're going to need to practice.
With Republicans in control of Congress, and GOP legislators at the helm in statehouses throughout the nation, 2nd Amendment advocates are confident that the anti-firearm push led by Barack Obama and the Democratic Party in recent years has stalled.
Two thugs tried to rob a gun store in Georgia last month but failed miserably because the gun store owner pulled a gun.
Go figure.
Concealed carriers have had problems for years with traveling from state to state.
This is why these individuals are sub-human and demon possessed. They abducted a person who was not able to protect himself, nor understood how to be situationally aware. They are the perfect definition of a predator.
Yes, this is what our society has created and this is what we now need to keep an eye out for, predators like this.
That means that we need to start improving our situational awareness and be ahead of the game when predators are in the vicinity.
a couple of the icebergs:
Mandatory quarantines without due process or informed consent: Under a new rule proposed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, government agents will be empowered to indefinitely detain any traveler they suspect of posing a medical risk to others without providing an explanation, subject them to medical tests without their consent, and carry out such detentions and quarantines without any kind of due process or judicial review.
Mental health assessments by non-medical personnel: As a result of a nationwide push to train a broad spectrum of so-called gatekeepers such as pastors, teachers, hair stylists, bartenders, police officers and EMTs in mental health first-aid training, more Americans are going to run the risk of being reported by non-medical personnel and detained for having mental health issues.
In a message on Twitter, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott urged his constituents to tell the Senate to reject a United Nations treaty which he says would give the global body some measure of control over American firearms.
It's almost as if Waffle House is advertising themselves as an easy place to rob, like the policy is a glaring neon sign beckoning robbers to rob their completely unprotected staff and clientele.
Just Google "Waffle House robbed at gunpoint" and you'll see that just in the last few months alone, Waffle Houses have been stormed by armed robbers in Georgia, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas. This location in Little Rock was robbed twice in the same day. This robber in the Dallas, Texas area robbed two different Waffle Houses in the same day in December. Most of them get away with it, too.
he decision by Obama to protect 300,000 acres of land in Nevada prompted new calls for confrontation among American militants.
Virginia-based Liberty University will soon begin construction on an on-campus shooting range to promote sport shooting and, more importantly, give students a place to practice shooting skills that could save their lives.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals continued its long-time assault on the 2nd Amendment when it overturned a ruling from May that found an Alameda County law barring gun stores within 500 feet of residential properties was unreasonable.
while most people would start thinking the US already has enough gun laws, to begin with, it's not just about guns and possession of a weapon. Higher chances of decreasing gun violence would be imposing stricter laws for those who break them. A guy who knows he's going to get a relatively short sentence doesn't let it stop him from doing what he intended. It somehow seems that people became too comfortable with the law and don't find consequences that severe to decide to avoid them. However, implementing stricter laws requires more funding which is, currently, difficult to do. Throughout his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump mentioned that ""What we need to do is fix the system we have and make it work as intended. What we don't need to do is expand a broken system." He also added he won't allow Americans to lose their own rights and it's safe to say he's definitiely got a plan that will repair the system.
Well, according to WHIO News, two armed robbers must've forgot that. As the owner went to open his shop, two armed robbers rushed into the store. No sooner than they breached the doorway, he already had his gun drawn and opened fire. The first robber was struck multiple times and pronounced dead at the scene. The second one was at least smart enough to call himself lucky to still be breathing and beat feet.
Four young African_Americans in need of dope money tried to rob a gun store. They weren't successful and this poor woman is left with a shattered life a dead husband and no way to make a living.One of the perps even threatened to sue her for shooting him after he killed her husband. The idiot was claiming self-defense.
SHAWNEE, Kan. -- Becky Bieker, whose husband Jon was killed in robbery attempt at their store in January 2015 has been trying to keep their business, She's A Pistol, going in a new location.
But she says the fallout from her husband's murder has slowly killed the business they built together.
In January of 2015, Jon Bieker was defending the store and his wife, after 4 men burst in and robbed them at gunpoint. A shootout ensued, and Jon was shot and killed.
"They took Jon. He was by best friend," Becky said.
The stress of living in challenging circumstances and the usual ebbs and flows of violence might have been some of the reasons why 40 people were shot over the weekend in Chicago, national anti-violence advocates based there told USA TODAY.
But, but, but, they have strict gun control in Chicago!!!!!!!!! :)
The 20th century was the bloodiest century in history. The 'century of massacres', 'hell's century', the 'century of martyrs'; just like all the others? No, not just like all the others; it was the great century of martyrs, infinitely more than the others. Never had there been so many martyrs in the space of 100 years, not even in the space of 1,000 years. These tens of millions of Christians, the victims of a century in open revolt against God, remain unknown and unsung. Today I would like to recall for you the Mexican Catholics who, some 70 years ago, rose up against Freemasonry for the social reign of our Lord Jesus Christ. They were called the Cristeros.
A Danish man, dressed as an ISIS fighter carrying a fake gun and the ISIS flag, walks across a Danish German border checkpoint.
Fearing Trump's presidency could rapidly evolve into a "Trumpocalypse", a significant number of leftists are stockpiling food, guns and emergency supplies.
President Obama doesn't have much time left, but he's using it to do his best to get the most draconian gun control measure in US history ratified by the Congress.
You may recall that Obama signed the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty back in 2013, but Congress refused to ratify it. President Obama has lamented that his inability to pass sweeping gun control legislation was the greatest regret of his presidency
The window is closing on freedom in the Golden State, as liberal government leaders and increasingly bureaucratic laws are being used to strip away the rights of the people.
"When Gov. Brown signed that bill, the first 30 days in July were just insane. It died down for a while but now we are back with everyone trying to get what they can before the end of the year."
"We have people lined up out the door and around the block," Terry McGuire, owner of the Get Loaded gun store in San Bernardino, added.
"When Gov. Brown signed that bill, the first 30 days in July were just insane. It died down for a while but now we are back with everyone trying to get what they can before the end of the year."
"We have people lined up out the door and around the block," Terry McGuire, owner of the Get Loaded gun store in San Bernardino, added.
Read more at SHTF
The 28 member states of the European Union have reached a preliminary agreement to implement a near-total ban on semi-automatic firearms, claiming it is a necessary step to reduce the likelihood of terror attacks.
The CCW process should not even take this long (the whole process is even questionable under our Constitutional rights), given the amount of violent crime in Sacramento.
13-minute vid of pure 2A Americana. I love it.
Bad News: He's done it.
President Obama has successfully enacted gun control on the American people.
In a last ditch effort to implement his gun-grabbing agenda before he leaves office, President Obama has stripped the gun rights from MILLIONS of current and future senior citizens!
Tying the Social Security system to the anti-grun Brady-NICS database prevents as many as 4.2 MILLION law abiding citizens from owning guns, without trial or due process.
This is the LARGEST gun grab in our country's history!
We must urge Congress and President-elect Trump to repeal this gun-grab!
Please take a moment to sign your petition to REPEAL the "Social Security Gun Ban" right now.
Gun shops across California have seen a surge in sales ahead of a series of gun control measures that take effect Jan. 1, including one that will ban the sale of firearms with so-called "bullet buttons."
California Gov. Jerry Brown signed the bills into law July 1. The six measures include a requirement that people turn in high-capacity magazines, along with regulations requiring background checks for ammunition sales.
No way would I ever move back to California. Those people have gone crazy. And for the people actually IN California, De ninguna manera volvería a California. Esa gente se ha vuelto loca.
Despite concerns from anti-gun protesters across the state of Texas, the first semester of campus carry went smoothly, with just one incident of an accidental firearm discharge at Tarleton State University. According to university officials at West Texas A&M (WTAMU), the new law allowing students to legally carry concealed weapons on campus, which went into effect in August, has been a "non-issue," reports the Amarillo Globe-News. "It's been totally a non-issue," Knox said. "In fact, the biggest issue we had is we have to replace signs because the wind bent them. Other than that, no cases or other issues. It's really not had an impact on our campus life whatsoever."
Campus carry reform is likely to advance in Arkansas in 2017. I expect it to continue to advance in the following years, across the nation.
FIREARMS and ammo sales in the US continue to rise with 17,850 tonnes of ammunition bought in the past 12 months.
Around "2,865 tonnes of bullets" were purchased in November alone as demand for firearms skyrockets to unprecedented levels.
26-year-old rookie cop Reagan Sellman, a former Marine, shot and killed a 73-year-old grandpa suffering from dementia Monday morning at 12:30AM. The rookie cop unloaded his gun on Francisco Serna claiming he had a gun, when in reality it was a Catholic crucifix. The police had even been to the house several times before and were familiar with the man. A paranoid neighbor woman, who didn't even know her own neighbor who lived across the street from her, initiated the whole thing when she freaked out and called the cops on Serna, claiming the confused elderly man had a gun and was posing a threat to her. When Francisco came across the street to talk to them, the paranoid woman and her husband ran into their house and police open-fired, murdering him.
When a homeowner heard a knock at the door, he knew he wasn't expecting company so he didn't answer it. That was the invitation three crooks needed to kick down his front door. What they didn't expect, though, was a man who refused to be a victim.
The Ohio Legislature has passed a bill allowing gun owners with proper permits to carry concealed firearms on campuses of public and private colleges and at child day-care centers with permission from a school's board of trustees or a day-care's operator.
So, what's the issue with having a gun shop in your local residential area? Are local lawmakers concerned someone will wake up, out of the blue, and purchase a gun for nefarious purposes?
In researching President-elect Trump's pick for DHS Chief, General John F. Kelly, I learned that he led a squadron of U.S. Marines in Los Angeles during the 1992 Rodney King riots. While searching for TV footage of General Kelly commanding troops on U.S. streets, I couldn't find any, but found some very interesting footage of the riots that is very captivating to watch. One of the clips is of a young Harvey Levin, who worked as a reporter for CBS-2 at the time. With fires erupting around him and troops driving by with rifles drawn, it looks like something out of one of my favorite movies of all time, 1984's RED DAWN. I also share my own story of being caught in those riots.
The Sandy Hook experience has divided Americans, most of whom have been convinced by media coverage that it was a real event, where a young man massacred 20 children and six adults before killing himself.
Another substantial segment of the US population has taken a closer look at the evidence and drawn the conclusion it was a hoax, where no children really died: it was an elaborate psy-op to promote gun control.
Officer Jeromino Yanez is being charged with manslaughter for the killing of motorist Philando Castile in Minnesora last July. Official police archives reveal that the St. Anthony police department has recieved funding and training from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for over a decade at least, and their website states that their officers are also trained by the FBI, U.S. Secret Service, and the National Guard. A St. Anthony P.D. bulletin from 2007 notes "the team is trained to operate and be successful in pre-empting a terrorist attack. To this end, officers have undergone extensive training and have been equipped with specialized gear. The equipment and training received has been funded by homeland security and domestic preparedness grants." The current sheriff of the County went to Washington, D.C. last year to ask for more funding for local law enforcement agencies. [See what it gets us? 7 bullets in the chest for nothing!!]
Ramsey County, MN Attorney John J. Choi held a press conference on November 16 announcing that Officer Jeronimo Yanez would be charged with manslaughter for the killing of Philando Castile. Castle was shot 7 times and killed on July 6, 2016 in front of his girlfriend and her 4-year-old daughter. It's important to watch exactly what Prosecutor Choi outlined in his 28-minute press conference. This is well worth watching and should serve as a template for prosecutors across America. We need to elect more good honest men like John J. Choi, and recognize their valiant efforts. This will go a long way to restoring justice and liberty in our land.
"You can't let some tyrannical dictator decide who can and can't be armed," UFC commentator Joe Rogan said on his podcast back in June.
Hidden in a very riveting and emotional news report featuring interviewe with many of the first reaponders are two bombshells which were inadvertently left in. The most interesting and revealing part of the news report are two different clips where the police dispatchers refer to the "THREE shooting suspects" and the "THREE fleeing suspects." The public was told that a Muslim couple shot up the Inland Regional Center In San Bernardino, Calif. last December, although multiple victims and witnesses also reported three shooters at the time.
Prop. 63 will require the following:
— Most ammunition sales to be made through licensed ammunition vendors and reported to the Department of Justice
— Lost or stolen firearms and ammunition will need to be reported to law enforcement
— Those convicted of stealing a firearm will be prohibited from possessing firearms
— Procedures will be established for laws prohibiting firearm possession by felons and violent criminals
— The Department of Justice will need to provide information about prohibited people to the federal National Instant Criminal Background Check System
California just fell off the "places to move to" list!
Three private companies, Armatix Smart System, iGun Technology and Kodiak Intelligun have recentlyy developed "smart gun" technology using RFID sensors and biometric sensors.
So why would the feds, spend two decades and millions of dollars trying to develop "smart guns"?
The answer is both disturbing and predictable.
A National Institute of Justice (NIJ) report, noted that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has used $12.6 million in taxpayer money to develop 'smart gun' technology. Most of the funding—approximately $11.1 million—was provided by NIJ itself and the Bureau of Justice Assistance. Fyi, the Feds have been working on 'smart gun' technology for over two decades (see page 5).
DHS is behind 'smart gun' technology
Perhaps the most disturbing thing about 'smart guns' is finding out who's behind it. According to page 12 of the report, DHS and the DOJ have already determined what 'smart gun' requirements will be used.
Such requirements will leave law-abiding, gun-safety conscious citizens defenseless.
But then again, that's the plan.
The city of Chicago is an alleged "gun free zone"; and yet, as reported at www.dnainfo.com on 30 September, 2016:
With September nearly over and three months still left in the year, Chicago has had more than 3,100 shooting victims — 300 more than the number of people shot in all of 2015. There have been 2,588 shooting incidents so far this year resulting in 3,173 people being shot, according to data compiled by DNAinfo from the Chicago Police Department and Illinois State Police. There were 2,327 incidents and 2,843 people shot in all of last year.
The bottom line is, and particularly if you live in a very violent, crowded city, like Chicago, the police cannot protect you: that is simple fact.
So what can the state and Federal governments actually do to turn this around?!?
1. Give all kids a first class education, preparing them for jobs that WILL exist into the 21st century. And forget manual labor; very shortly, robots will be doing most of that. Make sure that they can all speak a standard English before they can graduate from high school.
2. Bring back meaningful jobs, with decent wages, to the inner cities. Crime is born, many times, from desperation, and that desperation has to be addressed.
3. Legalize drugs, to take the profit motive out of it. The war on drugs has been an abject, complete, and highly costly, failure.
When there is no financial incentive for getting people hooked, that market place will implode, and the gangs will have to figure out something else to peddle (hey, how about organic, non-gmo food?!?)
The fight to protect the Second Amendment from the clutches of the gun control crowd can feel much like the race between the tortoise and the hare made famous in Aesop's Fables. Backed with huge budgets and armed with the moral elasticity to hijack any national tragedy to further their cause, gun control proponents employ flashy ads, emotional rhetoric and outright bullying to push their way to the forefront of the public debate. Meanwhile, Second Amendment supporters toil through the court system, winning occasional hard-fought victories in the drive to dismantle decades of laws designed to rob us of one of our most sacred natural rights.
One of those victories came last week, when a U.S. District Court judge in Texas found the federal interstate handgun transfer ban, established by the Gun Control Act of 1968 to be unconstitutional.
India, Uruguay, Australia and now Spain. The Minister of Finance and Public Service, Cristóbal Montoro has reportedly just announced "anticipated measures in order to 'reduce the use of cash.'
Submitted by Jeff Berwick:
In other words, Spain is going to make cash transactions even more difficult. As of presstime, from what we can tell, this has yet to be reported anywhere in English media except here now at TDV.
As you can see, the chaos is increasing. Combine cash bans with attacks on fake news (more on that tomorrow), and you end up disturbing a significant amount of people as we wrote here recently.
On November 18, the Pentagon issued a Defense Department directive that will "allow Department of Defense (D0D) personnel to carry firearms and employ deadly force while performing official duties."
Those hoping for the Trump presidency to somehow derail this Fourth Turning are delusional. Fourth Turnings never de-intensify. They build to a bloody crescendo, with the existing social order left in tatters and clear winners and losers. I think it is useful to describe this Fourth Turning in terms everyone should understand. J.R.R. Tolkien wrote his Lord of the Rings trilogy in the midst of the last Fourth Turning. It's not a coincidence the heroic figure of Gandalf the Grey saves the day during the Battle of Helm's Deep. He was the Grey Champion.
49-year-old David Wilcox asks "What's happening to America!?"
Wow, very powerful and sad interview.
The main threat to our freedoms has been the Continuity of Government, put in place in the aftermath of 9/11. We need to be able to control any existential threat to America that may jeopardize US continuity, and the freedoms of Americans.
Please apply to be a Trump Presidency Cabinet level officer, be in charge of the FEMA camps, to ensure the Continuity of Government is not abused, used to round up law abiding US citizens.
Corey Cataldo, 24, of the Bronx, said he was riding the uptown 5 train from Union Square to Morris Park Friday, when another rider on the subway spotted his "Make America Great Again" hat and apparently didn't like it.
President-elect Donald Trump could end or at least prohibit the enforcement of numerous gun controls in California, Illinois, New York, and New Jersey when he assumes office.
He would simply need to sign national reciprocity legislation as soon as it reaches his desk.
Rumors, which ultimately proved false, of an armed counter-protest brought an anti-Donald Trump vigil to an early end Sunday night and prompted TriMet to divert all bus and MAX lines away from downtown.
Reporters from The Oregonian/OregonLive were unable to find anyone other than police officers openly carrying firearms in downtown Portland.
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At the end of the rally, gun owners burned their concealed weapons permits and signed a petition vowing to refuse to follow the new gun control law. The petition ended with the text, "We pledge our blood. We will not comply."
Cardassia is a fictional planet in the Star Trek universe ruled by a totalitarian state with a court system quite similar to our own. Trials on Cardassia do not to examine the charges against the accused since a guilty verdict is foreordained.
The federal conspiracy trial of Ammon and Ryan Bundy and five of their associates was supposed to follow the Cardassian script – but the prosecutors lost the plot when they encountered defendants they couldn't bluff or bully, defense attorneys who conscientiously represented their clients, and a jury that demanded actual proof of the charges being considered.
Decades ago, at the depth of Stalin-era tyranny, Soviet procurators were admonished to pursue a one hundred percent conviction rate.
Given that roughly one in 212 defendants in federal trials wins an acquittal, it's clear that the contemporary US system has come much closer to achieving Stalin's ambition that its Soviet antecedent ever did.
"History offers even more sobering warnings: Armed confrontation usually occurs around the climax of Crisis. If there is confrontation, it is likely to lead to war. This could be any kind of war – class war, sectional war, war against global anarchists or terrorists, or superpower war. If there is war, it is likely to culminate in total war, fought until the losing side has been rendered nil – its will broken, territory taken, and leaders captured." – The Fourth Turning – Strauss & Howe -1997
Recent shocking terror attacks in France have encouraged many to try to get hold of their own firearms, new figures reveal.
A spate of shocking terror attacks on French soil in recent years has left many in France fearful.
As a result there has a been a surge in the number of people joining gun clubs and looking to arm themselves.
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Eleanor Frierson: A Tribute to the Grande Dame of Government Science Information Partnerships
by Dr. Walt Warnick 13 May, 2013 in Personal Perspectives
Eleanor Frierson, who passed away in April 2013, was the grande dame of partnerships to improve public access to federal and international science information. For 10 years, she helped spearhead U.S. interagency efforts to make federal science information more accessible to Americans, playing an absolutely crucial leadership role on the Science.gov Alliance. She took Science.gov all the way from a nascent concept through to its maturation. Ms. Frierson also made similar contributions to the international science portal, WorldWideScience.org.
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Eleanor Frierson was that rare public servant who made a very special mark. Her legacies continue on today as vital national and international resources.
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Eleanor Frierson received her B.A. from Oberlin College and her Master's in Library Science from Syracuse University. She was a library staff member at Syracuse, the U.S. Department of the Interior and the International Monetary Fund and also served as Chief of the Bureau of Library and Information Services of the International Labour Office in Geneva,...
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Ten years ago this month Science.gov was launched! The cross-agency portal was created to break down the stovepipes of science information, knowing that it is difficult to know which federal agency holds what information. Thanks to longtime relationships between the agency senior information managers of CENDI as well as a partnership with USA.gov, and with the efforts of many, many supporters, a unique and grassroots project was undertaken and still provides an important service today. A special thanks to our Science.gov Alliance co-chairs during these years: Eleanor Frierson, NAL/USDA (retired); Tom Lahr, NBII/USGS (retired); Cindy Etkin, GPO; Tina Gheen, LOC; Annie Simpson, USGS.
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Evaluative Thinking to Improve Your Results
To many organizations, program evaluation is a dreaded affliction—something that's forced upon them as a requirement for a grant. However, you can make evaluations work for you, instead of against you.
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- Discover new ideas you can use to strengthen your program.
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- Demonstrate your true effects to funders and stakeholders.
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A big obstacle that keeps many organizations from using evaluation to benefit them is that they have not embraced "evaluative thinking."
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The skills of evaluative thinking correspond to the six steps to an effective program evaluation. I'll go over these six steps in future articles. Here they are:
Collaborate with Stakeholders
Seek to understand the perspectives of all stakeholders—such as people receiving your program services, staff, volunteers, board members, and partnering organizations—and include them in planning and assessing your program.
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Detail what your program is expected to achieve, how it functions to accomplish its goals, and what is needed for its success.
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How about YOUR Organization?
Are people at your organization doing these things on a regular basis? If not, yours may be among the many nonprofits that are doing wonderful work, but could be accomplishing so much more. Sadly, you might also be missing out on funding opportunities because you don't have good data to show the true benefits of your work. So, your ability to expand your program to make a bigger difference and help more people may seem out of reach.
In too many organizations, "program evaluation" has a bad reputation. You might have had an unfortunate experience with program evaluation data not being useful or being used to justify cuts to much-needed services. The very use of the term "evaluation" might remind you of anxiety-producing employee performance evaluations. Sounds about as much fun as a head cold.
Don't let a bad rap keep you away from a good thing. Here's an easy way to get your people pointed in the right direction!
Quick Activity to Introduce Evaluative Thinking at Your Organization
Making changes in people's way of thinking is never easy. However, this quick activity can spark the start of more evaluative thinking at your organization, so you can better use learning and information to increase the good you are doing and help more people.
Wade in Slowly
Asking questions about long-held ideas can be uncomfortable. So, unless your group is accustomed to talking about their thinking and questioning ideas, it's best to introduce evaluative thinking concepts gently. In their blog post on evaluative thinking, Tom Archibald and Guy Sharrock suggest starting with a something less threatening, like critiquing a news article.
An idea that I prefer is to talk about a situation where you'd evaluate information to make decisions in everyday life, like choosing a restaurant for lunch or buying a new car. To make this easier for you, I put together a fifteen-minute evaluative thinking icebreaker activity, below, that you can use to facilitate such a conversation. If more than twelve people are in the room, you might want to have people break into small groups of two to six people for small group discussion, then have the small groups report out to the large group.
Fifteen-Minute Evaluative Thinking Ice-Breaker Activity
Imagine you're having some friends over for dinner and you want to make something you've never made before, say a bean chili. You want your dish to be a big hit.
Discuss: How could you apply the six steps to evaluative thinking and effective evaluation to help you make sure your bean chili will be a success?
Collaborate with Stakeholders
For example, you might ask your friends do they like bean chili? Do they like it spicy hot or mild? Do they have any allergies or dietary preferences?
Clarify How Your Idea Works
To make sure that your idea is realistic, you might plan out things like your shopping list, when you'll get the ingredients and cook the chili, and what dishes you'll use to serve it.
Assess What Others Have Done
You might search for chili recipes to inspire you in your cookbooks and cooking websites, then use the best-sounding ideas to create your own recipe.
Ask Useful Questions
For example, you might be unsure how much chili powder to add, so you decide to experiment by adding a little bit at first, then letting it cook for a while and tasting it to see if more is needed.
Measure Your Results
To find out how your dish turned out, you might pay attention to whether your friends seem to be enjoying eating it. You might also ask them how they liked it and what changes they would suggest for next time.
Share Your Results
You could share your recipe with your friends or even post it on a recipe sharing website, so that others can benefit from all your hard work perfecting your bean chili masterpiece.
Get People Talking and Thinking
The idea of the fifteen-minute activity is to get people to start talking and thinking about evaluative thinking in a comfortable way before getting into questioning their long-held assumptions and ways of doing things.
Let's take back the word "evaluation" and use evaluative thinking to make our service organizations shine!
About the Contributor: Bernadette Wright
Bernadette is Director of Research & Evaluation at Meaningful Evidence, LLC, where she helps nonprofit organizations with program evaluation and measurement so they can use that information to increase the success of their programs and the communities they serve.
For two decades, Bernadette has managed and conducted research for non-profit, government, and business organizations in health care, aging, education, and other fields.
She is author of over 50 publicly available client reports/peer-reviewed papers. She also writes guest posts for blogs such as the Foundation Center of Washington, DC blog and the American Evaluation Association AEA365 Blog.
Bernadette also frequently presents at national and local workshops and meetings, such as a Center for Nonprofit Success workshop on Program Evaluation in Washington, DC.
She was recognized for conducting an "Exemplar Evaluation" at the 2015 American Evaluation Association Conference in Chicago and is recipient of a "Best Paper" award at the 2015 Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning Conference in Las Vegas.
Bernadette is an active member of the American Evaluation Association and its local affiliate, Washington Evaluators. She earned her PhD in Public Policy/Program Evaluation from the University of Maryland in 2002.


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Extract from the book Eva Hild, text Petter Eklund
Carlsson bokförlag 2009, translation William Jewson
Form as Time
I really know almost nothing at all about Albert Einstein. But I find myself thinking of him when I come face to face with Eva Hild's art. The Einstein that turns up in my mind is a figure from childhood, that rather unkempt old man who looks like an ideal grandfather. In school textbooks there were pictures of strange forms folding into each other. This was the era of time warp, of infinity as space in which spaces coincided and distances collapsed. Einstein maintained that time could stand still. I could not understand how but the notion felt fantastic and, somehow, calming. There was the promise of other routes than the blind alley from A to B; the "final countdown" that exists deep in all of us. This is precisely the spot where Einstein and Eva Hild's sculptures connect, deep in my stomach, in my heart, in the confusion of life where hopes and dreams simmer. We stand there, like wide-eyed children, confronted by the shapes. They carry their own evolution yet we recognize ourselves in these convolutions. We see how realities are turned in on themselves, how interiors become exteriors, how days and bodies clutch each other and shadows become bright and imagination is for real. Eva Hild's sculptures have a natural quality about them, as though they had always existed. In spite of the fact that there are no pictures on the surfaces they seem to be rich in narratives and to give answers to life's questions that are not a matter of mathematics or physics. We see them as though they are skeletal forms and shells from an unfamiliar reality, relics of a sunken civilization, details of the inner ear, of sliced egg whites. The forms seem to have crystallized directly out of the air, to have been bleached with all the world's forbidden bleaching agents, to have been burnt with acids and filed down to a state of absolute necessity. Yet they are the work of just two hands.
Everyone asks: "How does she do it?" The perfection of Eva Hild's forms means that I readily forget that they have been built by a mere human being (shoe size 39). The sense of materiality, which many ceramicists spend their lives trying to achieve, is expressed by a matt surface that seems to have been produced by a gigantic 3D printer. It reminds me of "precious ornaments" at home. When I was a child, elderly relatives often had a seemingly unchanging room with one of these ornaments in the form of a much prized souvenir that expressed the fragility and beauty of life and that was guarded by a chorus of "just look but don't touch". Despite the fact that Eva Hild's sculptures are physical and embracing one does not touch them. Partly this is due to their size. We can come into contact with them but we cannot lift them up or hold them. They are "untouchables" with a profound integrity. I am gripped by a blasphemous thought: tap it with a hammer, chip away at it and crack it open. What would that feel like? A traditional Japanese attitude to ceramics sees a birthmark or some minor damage to an object as an imperfection that is important in that it provides a sort of entrance to the object's own history.
E-mail from Eva Hild dated 16th March 2009:
There is an obvious danger in getting too close to "perfection", producing technically brilliant work that is totally unthreatening. I struggle with myself and I hope that, at some point, this struggle will be visible even though I am very good at sanding it down.
Much has been said about the time-consuming process of creating Eva Hild's forms. It takes her more than half a year to produce a sculpture, an extraordinarily unfashionable duration for manufacturing something – analogous to a hand-built sports car – but it is an important ingredient in the magic of Eva Hild's art. For we are naturally fascinated by the artist's physical effort which finds expression in the myth of the landscape painter's struggle with the elements, the expressionist's jazzy paint-throwing, the great masters' combat with ideas that are torn out of time and matter. Eva Hild joins the long tradition of artists engaged in struggle.
E-mail from Eva Hild dated 23rd February 2009:
If I am to propose the cornerstones of my way of working they would be time and reflection; resolute and constant application, an intuitive process that I define and formulate as I go along. There is inertia in the forms. Control in combination with the urge to expand and stretch and reach and move on (in every sense…)…
A trip to the studio. The train meanders through the hills outside Herrljunga through gently rolling woods and fields. The landscape, too, has interiors and exteriors. We are not far from Gothenburg yet we are marginalized. Eva Hild chose to leave the city and to move with her family to the village of Sparsör in 1998. Cheap housing with lots of space. She has explained that it was only when she had moved and could enjoy privacy that her art was able to grow and develop. Eva Hild is waiting for me on the platform (wearing rubber boots). She drives us through the village, pointing out the bakery and the medical clinic where her mother has worked for many years. "Chance brought us here. The place is not important in itself but access to the countryside means a lot", she explains as we pass the school and nursery attended by her three daughters. We carry on past a former furniture factory and on to the abandoned post office. This is where she lives, ten steps from the railway line with 22 trains every day linking one to the world beyond. On the other side of the tracks is Lake Öresjö, "essential for being able to live here" and, beyond that a billowing forested ridge which is somewhat Hild-like in its unbroken line. It is here, with the domestic sounds of saucepan lids from upstairs, with cars on the street and neighbours tramping past, in the most everyday of domestic settings that Eva Hild's ethereal sculptures are created.
Work-time. E-mails answered. Hours of work and raw materials; a slow adventure every day. The clay is Vingerling K 129, grogged stoneware clay from the Netherlands that comes in 10-kilo packets. There are tons of clay piled on pallets in the cellar. The clay is pure and efficient, a building material with no organic impurities and surprises. Eva Hild is no clay-romantic. She takes the plastic covering from half-finished sculptures lying like dead bodies on the floor, like alarming corpses from a forgotten accident. There is a smell of damp, of earth's crust, of the mustiness of a mine. She pulls on her overalls and starts building with her strong, secure hands. She is so expert at the technique she uses that one doesn't even notice it, just as with a carpenter or a musician. She takes clay directly from the packet, kneads it and rolls it into a clay sausage that is wound round into a form. She uses a scraper to even out the surfaces, a kidney-shaped metal tool. Incredible numbers of lengths of clay are needed. Sometimes a whole packet of clay is not sufficient to build up a single layer of a larger form.
"My work is a hunt for something that I am not aware of but am trying to reach and to define. I work with spiritual states that have neither beginning nor end; where everything keeps moving round in a constant dialogue with myself. If I am able to see what will evolve this is not interesting." The shapes remain raw materials for a long time. It is only at a late stage that she makes the decision to proceed further with them. They may seem troublesome for a time, raw and undecided, but somewhere in the material there is an answer…


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In business school, I had an entrepreneurship class where the professor classified all people who've started companies as fools, and entrepreneurs as successful fools. Honestly, I'm not sure there's a difference between the two. With that in mind, I've been a fool and advised fools/entrepreneurs for nearly 15 years.
I've always enjoyed the process of helping people take their best shot at the foolish life, having lived both the highs (assembling Ikea furniture for new employees, finding product market fit, raising funds) and the lows (bankruptcy, disassembling said Ikea furniture, saying goodbye to my team). Here's a short list of things I've learned in that process.
1. Call a spade a spade but don't call it a f****** shovel
As an advisor, I've tended to be brutally honest with folks I've worked with, whether it's a complete redo on the style and substance of a presentation, or explaining that a product isn't ready for primetime. Being consistently honest builds trust quickly with entrepreneurs, and given the short timeframe for their success with limited capital, that time is critical. The faster they trust your advice and execute against it the better.
I also understand that the last thing an entrepreneur facing long odds needs is more negative feedback, so while brute honesty is important, I try and find ways to not only criticize but always suggest positive changes or alternatives to the task at hand. It's easy to say something is wrong, but an advisor without a positive suggestion on how to improve it is just a critic.
2. I am Morpheus.
"Neo, sooner or later you're going to realize just as I did that there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path."
One of the biggest obstacles to personal success is self-doubt. Doesn't matter whether it's an entrepreneur or a line employee, career success is completely dependent on a person's desire to set a target far above what seems plausible and to chase after it without reserve. I classify most entrepreneurs as Neo from the Matrix, individuals who actually already are rockstars in just the mere act of starting something impossible, but just don't believe it enough to assume it and succeed. The job of a great advisor is to help a person find that uber version of themselves, a Morpheus to their Neo.
For me, this comes in a bunch of different ways, but the most critical is first realizing that my experiences and failures are a great tool. The constant s***-storms, politics, second-guessing and fail whales of a startup are a common, shared experience. Helping an entrepreneur realize that they're not alone in that process helps remove some of their self-doubt. Self-deprecation and lessons learned from my own iterative failure are a massive help to an entrepreneur looking for advice and support when they need it most, when things aren't going well.
In addition, once an entrepreneur has achieved a base level of success (initial traction, first funds raised), I consciously stay away and let them do their thing. Being Morpheus means letting go, until the next time you're needed for good counsel. The most successful startups I've advised I helped heavily at the outset, and didn't hear from them for 3-4 years, which was when the bankers called for a home address to send paperwork.
3. "Stay hungry. Stay foolish"
I just read the Steve Jobs book by Walter Isaacson, and man was Steve off-putting. In many ways, his negative engagement with partners, employees and friends would drive most companies to abject failure. But one thing that drove his massive success was his unabashed desire to explore new things (drugs, philosophy, diet, technology).
I've advised a couple dozen startups to this point and worked at a half dozen. One thing I've gotten used to is constant change. Most folks hate it. Frankly, for a long time I wasn't a huge fan of it either. If things were going well, I wanted things to continue going well and not have to constantly effort success. Yes that's called laziness and it's a common problem. It's hard to tell someone to just work harder or smarter to deal with it. In fact that's stupid advice. I prefer to repeat the Steve Job mantra instead.
"Learn to never be satisfied with the status quo, to constantly expand your understanding of users, audience, products or markets."
Working with entrepreneurs to strive for that ideal helps them adapt to constant change. As an advisor, you should help an entrepreneur see that it's something not only to expect and fear but to work towards and achieve for themselves. Driving their own constant change into an organization or market versus being the recipient of it can dramatically improve an entrepreneur's outlook on a business, reduce their doubt and ultimately deliver success.
Being foolish and driving change may be the only way to truly succeed as an entrepreneur. Frankly, it's impossible to be a great advisor if you haven't been the fool yourself.
Roy Choy is the COO of BitTorrent. His experiences include:
- Advising more than 20 companies.
- Taking revenue from $300K to more than $30M over three years at RockYou.
- Raising $3M based on concept for a natural language processing startup.
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My doctor told me that it's a genetic thing in my family. They had ran some blood tests along with the routine check up down there. My mom had a really hard time conceiving and when she had me I was 5 pound 6 ounces and a premi. It's been a couple years since my doctor has said this but honestly I'm just kinda afraid to find out for sure you know? I've always wanted to be a mom and the thought of not being able to crushes me.
Last night I was at my boyfriends and he told me I've been acting really weird lately. He accidentally bumped one of my breasts too and let me tell you, that hurt. Then he asked why my breasts would hurt. I think I'm going to have to take a test
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