Month: February 2018

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Father Of Another Student Says CNN Tried To Get Her To Spin An ‘Agenda’ For Town Hall

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CNN is newly accused of stacking its Wednesday school shooting town hall in favor of a pro-gun control agenda.

The father of a survivor from last week’s mass shooting at Marjorty Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. made comments on Fox News Thursday night that appeared to confirm the account of another student who said CNN wanted him to read from a script at the town hall.

High school junior and JROTC Colton Haab, who protected his classmates with a makeshift kevlar shield during the shooting, claimed CNN rejected his speech and question and instead wanted him to read a scripted question.

According to Haab, who said he skipped out on the town hall after the incident, his original remarks involved the idea of employing veterans as armed guards at schools.

Ariana Klein, also a junior at Stoneman Douglas, said of Haab’s accusations:

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Dear United Airlines And Delta: If You Really Oppose Guns, Disarm Your Pilots And Crews

Legacy airlines United and Delta announced Saturday that they will no longer offer discounted bulk travel rates for NRA members to use exclusively for NRA gatherings, to which an estimated 100% of NRA members nationwide perplexedly responded, “Delta and United used to give NRA members travel discounts?” Now that United and Delta have made crystal clear their hostility toward a constitutionally protected civil right, they should follow their newfound activism to its logical conclusion and disarm not only the U.S. Marshals who protect their flights but also the airlines’ own pilots and crews.

Until Wednesday’s White House meeting with parents and family members of the shool shooting in Parkland, Florida, many Americans may have been unaware that airline crews regularly carry guns. President Trump explained, “A lot of airline pilots now—a lot of them—carry guns.” He was referring to the Arming Pilots Against Terrorism Act, signed into law as part of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 after the September 11 terrorist attacks. For 16 years the law has deputized flight crew members as federal law enforcement officers authorized to keep and use firearms aboard aircraft.

In addition to locked and loaded pilots and stewardesses, since United and Delta have also since 1961 enjoyed the protection of the Federal Air Marshal Service, which deploys armed federal agents onto commercial flights. Perhaps these legacy airlines may now doubt the efficacy of firearms in preventing attacks because federal air marshals have not once prevented a terrorist attack in the sky. Indeed, defenders of the civil right to keep and bear arms regularly cite as the failure of government agencies to prevent violent attacks as evidence that the capacity to defend oneself must not be infringed. The mass shooting in Florida serves as a prime example of law enforcement’s failing at every level, from the FBI, which neglected clear warnings, all the way down to the Sheriff Scott Israel’s deputies, who refused to enter the high school building as the shooter massacred his fellow students.

Whatever the reason United Airlines and Delta now profess to oppose guns, their signaling rings hollow as long as they allow pilots, crews, and air marshals to travel packing heat. Much like Democrat politicians and Hollywood celebrities who malign law-abiding gun-owners while surrounded by battalion of armed bodyguards, the airlines seem to tell their passengers, “Self-defense for me, but not for thee.” United and Delta could rectify this rank hypocrisy by surrendering their own crew members’ firearms before they join the chorus of those who demand the same of every other American. Of course then their reckless actions would incur real-world consequences. Perhaps American customers should make them feel those consequences either way.

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Broward Sheriff Argues Against Arming Teachers, But Deputy Instructs Mosques To Arm Selves

Deputy Nezar Hamze:

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Deputy Hamze’s advice to for Muslim worshipers? “When someone walks through that door, they don’t want to debate. They want to kill you.” SOUNDS GOOD TO US! TOO BAD THE OTHER BROWARD COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE DEPUTIES DIDN’T DO THE SAME:

So why are people in mosques to be protected and armed, but not teachers or staff in schools to protect kids?

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Students In Louisiana Thought A Math Symbol Looked Like A Gun, Police Were Called

It does have a bump stock.

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A discussion among students at Oberlin High School in Oberlin, La., about a mathematical symbol led to a police investigation and a search of one of the student’s homes, according to the Allen Parish Sheriff’s Office.

On the afternoon of Feb. 20, detectives investigated a report of terroristic threats at the school, where they learned that a student had been completing a math problem that required drawing the square-root sign.

Students in the group began commenting that the symbol, which represents a number that when multiplied by itself equals another number, looked like a gun.

After several students made comments along those lines, another student said something the sheriff’s office said could have sounded like a threat out of context.

Police searched the student’s home, where they found no guns or any evidence that he had any access to guns. Authorities also wrote there was no evidence the student had any intent to commit harm.

“The student used extremely poor judgment in making the comment, but in light of the actual circumstances, there was clearly no evidence to support criminal charges,” the department wrote, adding that the school board had been contacted to determine any disciplinary action for the student.

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NRA Issues BADA$$ Statement in Response To Losing Corporate Partnerships

NRA Issues BADA$$ Statement in Response To Losing Corporate Partnerships

February 24, 2018
by Joshua Caplan

In a defiant statement released Saturday, the National Rifle Association slammed corporations for ending their partnerships with the gun-advocacy group. 

Washington Examiner reports:

The NRA slammed the move by Delta, United, Enterprise, BestWestern, Hertz, and several other companies as “a shameful display of political and civic cowardice.” The group also suggested such entities would likely suffer a major blow to their business as a result.

“In time, these brands will be replaced by others who recognize that patriotism and determined commitment to Constitutional freedoms are characteristics of a marketplace they very much want to serve,” read the statement.

“Let it be absolutely clear. The loss of a discount will neither scare nor distract one single NRA member from our mission to stand and defend the individual freedoms that have always made America the greatest nation in the world,” the statement continued.

Delta and United airlines have both ended their partnerships with the NRA this weekend.

“United is notifying the NRA that we will no longer offer a discounted rate to their annual meeting and we are asking that the NRA remove our information from their website,” tweeted United Airlines.

“Delta is reaching out to the NRA to let them know we will be ending their contract for discounted rates through our group travel program. We will be requesting that the NRA remove our information from their website,” Delta tweeted

Below is a list of 15 brands that have now ended their relationship with the NRA.

#BoycottNRA has trended on Twitter since gunman Nikolas Cruz shot dead 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.

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NBC viewership for Winter Olympics in South Korea could be worst ever

Viewership for the PyeongChang Olympic Games is shaping up to be the lowest-ever, Deadline Hollywood reported.

How low did it go?

Yesterday marked the last Friday of the Olympics, and the combined primetime coverage for NBC and NBCSN earned a 9.2/16 in metered market results. The figure is an all-time Olympic low and is likely to be the worst-ever, Deadline Hollywood reported.

Not even an appearance by first daughter Ivanka Trump and others from the United States delegation could boost the bottom line for NBC primetime ratings, the report stated.

“And bottom is the operative word today as Olympics fatigue has definitely set-in for the final stretch of the 2018 international competition for the Comcast-owned outlet,” according to Deadline Hollywood.

How much has NBC invested in Olympics rights?

In 2011, NBC paid $4.38 billion for the rights to the next four Olympics. And in 2015, it paid $7.7 billion for another six years, CNN reported.

The Olympics have long been regarded as a boon for TV networks. But now, not so much. Fewer young people are watching TV but live sports area always a draw, or at least that’s what NBC was banking on, the report stated.

By some accounts, viewership for the winter games is down 24 percent from the 2014 Sochi Olympics games, among viewers between ages 18 to 49, according to CNN. That demographic is regarded as the most-coveted by advertisers.

NBC defends the figures, nothing that when viewers from both NBC and the NBC Sports Network are compiled, it’s really a 15 percent drop, the report states. But views for the opening ceremony were also down — 8.6 percent from four years ago.

But over the past two years, sports have also fallen as the TV industry overall struggles to increase viewers. Viewers of the last consecutive Summer and Winter Games have dropped. Similarly, ratings for the NFL have fallen.

The trend has been happening for some time.

In 2012, NBC reportedly had to offer free ad time because initial ads didn’t reach the agreed upon number of viewers.

TV networks make money from advertising and “retransmission” fees it charges cable providers and local stations to air its content, CNN stated. Networks can more easily project retransmission fees because they’re built into budgets. Advertising, in contrast, is less secure in today’s changing media environment.

NBC is owned Comcast and has national ad sales that increased from $800 million from Sochi to $920 million this year.

In an interview with CNBC, Comcast Chairman and CEO Brian Roberts said he would “absolutely” renew or extend NBC’s Olympics contract.

“Our long-term Olympic rights agreement is the best in all of media,” he said.

Still, there is no way to tell if this year’s poor ratings will impact profitability in the coming years, CNN noted.

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CBS Poll on Armed Teachers Will Send Chill Down Democrats’ Spines

If you have been seeing a mass of videos and memes created with the sole intent of getting you to believe you’re the only one who thinks it might be a good idea to allow teachers to be responsibly-armed on school grounds, you are not alone.

You are being misinformed.

A recent CBS News poll revealed that a surprising 44 percent of Americans support the idea of more teachers being allowed to carry in schools.

It’s not a majority of Americans, but it’s a far larger portion than liberals are willing to admit.

That’s from a mainstream media group, too — the true percentage may well be higher than that.

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The study further reported that 53 percent of those surveyed support the ban of the AR-15, 56 percent support a ban on bump stocks, and 75 percent support a ban on bump stocks, which further indicates to me that the results may be skewed a bit left of the political aisle.

In the wake of the Florida school shooting on Feb. 14 Democrats slammed current gun laws with demands ranging from stronger background checks to the repealing of the Second Amendment.

They were more than happy to weaponize victims of the school shooting to push their point across, as well.

I mean after all, the Second Amendment was conjured by a bunch of racist white men with a couple good ideas, right?

Should teachers be allowed to be armed in the classroom?

Now, let’s talk about this for a minute.

The Second Amendment is in place for a multitude of reasons — none of which are hunting. It allows for the defense against foreign enemies, either from a foreign government or assailants.

It also — and just as importantly — guarantees our God-given right to defend ourselves against a tyrannical government.

Liberals insist that the United States without a Second Amendment would be a death-free utopia, but we already know what a Second Amendment-less United States would look like.

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Just take a look at how many crimes occur in gun-free zones.

President Donald Trump will push for armed teachers, and the media will tie themselves into knots. He very likely will beat the leftists in this conflict, ramping up public support for the idea in the process, but at the end of the day we have to remember that our right to remain armed doesn’t come from the government.

It comes from up above.

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Lib Reporter Scared That NRA Wants to Arm Women, Jews

In the wake of the Parkland, Florida high school mass shooting, the gun-hating liberal media went overboard, as they tend to do, with their all-out assault on the Second Amendment, the National Rifle Association, Republican politicians, gun owners and all who support any of them.

It has been made abundantly clear in recent days that plenty of liberals want to ban virtually all guns — yes, all of them — as they don’t believe anyone truly needs a gun, nor do they buy into the provable notion that bad guys with guns are typically  stopped by good guys with guns.

As such, they balk at the idea of regular American citizens being armed for their own protection, and mock the strawman argument that the NRA is trying to force a gun into the hands of every single person, particularly those from especially vulnerable societal groups, like women and minorities and those who work in certain professions.

Case in point is this tweet and linked article from Vice News which fretted that the NRA wants to arm schoolteachers, preachers and women … yes, Vice apparently stands against women being allowed to possess firearms.

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As an aside, the sarcastic comments in response to that tweet are pure gold. What with women now owning guns (the horror!), they’ll also now expect to be able to buy property, drive cars or even vote as well!

But back to the Vice article by Harry Cheadle, which listed out some of the various societal sub-groups and professions that he apparently doesn’t believe need to be, or perhaps shouldn’t even be allowed to be, armed for the protection of themselves and others.

That “very incomplete list” included the aforementioned schoolteachers, preachers and women, as well as nightclub attendees, gay and transgender people, black people, Jews, holocaust survivors, college students, movie theater attendees, or pilots and passengers on planes.

Do you think women and other vulnerable groups in society have a right to be armed?

He also doesn’t believe that truckers, firefighters, paramedics, judges and legislators, doctors and nurses or anyone with an office job should have a gun either, among many others.

To be sure, the article was a tongue-in-cheek attack on the left’s strawman argument that the NRA wants to place a gun in every single American citizens’ hands, which simply isn’t the case. The NRA merely thinks every single American citizen has the right to possess a firearm, if they so choose.

Breitbart‘s AWR Hawkins noted that many of those contained on the Vice News list were some of the most vulnerable in our society, who most certainly should be permitted to possess the best tool for defending themselves, a firearm.

“After unarmed teachers have been killed in gun-free school zone after gun-free school zone, VICE’s criticism is aimed at the NRA for wanting teachers to be able to defend themselves,” Hawkins wrote. “After armed attacks on numerous churches, VICE is bothered that the NRA wants ‘preachers’ and other church members to be able to defend the congregation. And after 49 were killed in the gun-free Orlando Pulse nightclub, VICE is bothered that the NRA wants to allow club goers with concealed permits to carry in order to defend themselves and others.”

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We suspect that all of the women who have ever used a firearm to defend themselves from assault or rape would beg to differ with Vice as to whether they “need” a gun or not, and we suspect we’d find a similar reaction from most of the other victimized groups on the list as well, such as Jews and holocaust survivors and members of the LGBTQ community.

Really what this boils down to is that the left doesn’t think anybody should be allowed to own firearms, no matter how vulnerable or defenseless they are without them, and would repeal the Second Amendment and confiscate all privately owned guns in a heartbeat if they could.

We wholeheartedly disagree with that tyrannical sentiment and support the natural right of all law-abiding citizens, regardless of race, gender, class or profession to be armed if they so desire, as was intended by our nation’s Founding Fathers.

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Trump Defies Left, Issues Huge NRA Endorsement

The Second Amendment is currently under all-out assault… but President Donald Trump isn’t caving in.

After the tragic school shooting by a mentally deranged young man in Florida, liberals and the media have pointed the finger at a group that had no connection to the crime: The National Rifle Association.

First, a CNN-organized “town hall” event became a clearly biased chance to bash gun owners and essentially accuse the NRA and its spokesperson Dana Loesch of having blood on their hands.

Then, companies including Enterprise Rent-a-Car which had discount programs for NRA members began tearing up their agreements, and made it obvious that any member of the gun safety and firearm ownership group was unwelcome in their locations.

With all of this hysterical pressure on an organization made up of some five million law-abiding gun owners, it would have been easy for Donald Trump to distance himself from the NRA. Instead he did the opposite.

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During a quick chat with reporters while leaving the White House to attend a conservative conference, Trump actually defended the NRA and took a stand for its many members.

“These are good people, in many cases great people, they are patriots, they love our country,” the president said. “The NRA wants to do the right thing, I’ve been speaking to them.”

At the same time, Trump acknowledged that there were problems within the country that needed to be addressed, particularly with mental health and school security.

“Trump said that he would fix the issue of mass shootings in schools, even though it had been a problem for years. He called for the end of gun-free zones at schools,” reported Breitbart News.

Do you support the NRA after the Florida incident?

“You have to have a certain degree of offensive power within the school, it can’t always be defense,” the president stated.

While he had respectful words for the millions of Americans who make up the NRA, Trump also took a very critical tone when talking about one of the sheriff’s deputies who reportedly waited for four minutes, armed but doing nothing, while children were murdered inside the school.

“He didn’t have the courage or something happened, he certainly did a poor job,” the president said of Scot Peterson, the school resource officer who has now resigned in disgrace.

Even Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel could not hide his disappointment in the behavior of the sworn deputy during the tragedy.

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“What matters is that when we, in law enforcement, arrive at an active shooter, we go in and address the target,” the sheriff said, according to Fox News. “And that’s what should’ve been done.”

Israel elaborated that he expected Deputy Peterson or any law enforcement official to have “went in, addressed the killer, killed the killer.”

In fact, it looks like officials at almost every level dropped the ball when it came to taking the threat seriously. The sheriff’s office and the FBI reportedly received dozens of warnings that Nikolas Cruz was planning on attacking the school, but either ignored or brushed off the clues.

In light of those many failures by trained and armed government officials, the fact that so much outrage is being aimed at the National Rifle Association is simply bizarre.

There is no indication whatsoever that Cruz had even the vaguest connection to the NRA, yet all of its law-abiding members have been grouped in with a demented killer by the media and liberals.

Trump is right: NRA members are people who love America and believe in responsible gun ownership, a right guaranteed in the Constitution. Pretending that this makes them fanatics is insane, and it is refreshing that at least one leader is refusing to turn their back on the law-abiding citizens of this country.

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The NRA has a message for Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel — and they’re holding nothing back

The National Rifle Association has been the target of much scrutiny since a 19-year-old deranged shooter opened fire at a Florida high school on Feb. 14. Many Americans place blame for the shooting on the NRA because the organization supports the Second Amendment.

But with all of the new information coming out about how the Broward County Sheriff’s Office botched a response to the active shooter and the investigations leading up to the shooting, the NRA took aim at the law enforcement agency for its apparent carelessness.

What did they say?

The organization tweeted Friday:

The NRA’s tweet came in response to a tweet from the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. The organization tweeted a statement its leader, Sheriff Scott Israel, made at a CNN town hall Wednesday night.

That night, Israel accused the NRA of not “standing up” for students nationwide because they advocate for the Second Amendment and oppose new gun restrictions arguing that increased gun regulations won’t prevent the next mass shooting. Israel directed his comments at NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch, who attended the town hall.

What new information has come out?

In addition to the report that the school resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school — who was a Broward County Sheriff’s deputy — didn’t confront the shooter, attempt to save any lives during the shooting and only took cover outside, a new report came out Friday that really placed the sheriff agency under the microscope.

That report said that three other Broward County Sheriff’s deputies arrived at the school during the shooting but also didn’t act and only stood outside with their colleague.

Instead, officers from the Coral Springs police department entered the school first. They arrived to MSD and discovered the Broward County sheriff deputies with their weapons drawn but not inside the school.

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