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Parkland Dad Accuses Chris Wallace of Focus on Gun Control Instead of School Security for ‘More Ratings’

Parkland Dad Accuses Chris Wallace of Focus on Gun Control Instead of School Security for ‘More Ratings’

by Pam Key25 Feb 20180



On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” Andrew Pollack, who lost his daughter, Meadow at the Parkland, FL school shooting criticized host Chris Wallace for focusing on gun control instead of school security.

Pollack said, “I just heard what you said, what you’re focusing on, polarizing this event, the murder of these kids, you’re talking about gun control. I just had to listen to you, and Gov. Scott talks about gun control. Gun control is a big issue. No one in America is going to come together on control, Chris.”

He continued, “You didn’t say one thing about fixing it. We can get together on school safety. But when you polarize it, this event and every other media — we don’t care about gun control right now. That’s a big issue in the country, and you’re not going to get everyone together on it. But we are going to get everyone together on fixing our school.”

He added, “You are just talking about gun control which is going to just give you more ratings.”

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The Horrifying Life Of Sex Slavery North Korean Cheerleaders Face

And US media was fawning all over them and how cheerful they were.

Via NY Post:

Members of the North Korean national cheerleading squad — who have been featured gleefully rooting at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics — are systematically forced to have sex with high-ranking members of Kim Jong Un’s twisted regime, according to a disturbing report.

Behind the scenes, the troupe — dubbed the “Pleasure Squad” by insiders — are forced to perform sex acts on party leaders during their trip to the Olympics, a defector with knowledge of the sexual slavery told Bloomberg News.

“[The] troupe came here and performed with dances and songs, and it might seem like a fancy show on the outside [but] they also have to go to parties and provide sexual services,” said defector Lee So Yeon, a military musician who fled the country in 2008, during Kim Jong Un’s regime.

“They go to the central Politburo party’s events, and have to sleep with the people there, even if they don’t want it,” said Yeon, 42.

She added, “Those sorts of human-rights infringements take place, where women have to follow what they are told to do with their bodies.”

The perky and impeccably dressed cheerleaders are subject to an extreme vetting system based on their looks, family backgrounds and loyalty to the Workers’ Party, according to the outlet.

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Human Error More To Blame Than Guns In Mass Shootings

In the wake of another school shooting, there’s a new round of calls for gun reform, gun control, whatever one wants to call it. Once again, the fallacy that more gun laws will prevent atrocities from happening is being passed around social media, news networks and around water coolers across the country.

Curtailing our Second Amendment rights just isn’t going to be the answer. Mere access to guns alone doesn’t make such tragedies possible; after all, the worst school massacre in American history – the Bath School Disaster of 1927 – was carried out without a single shot being fired.

What seems to get lost in the shuffle is the role of human error in mass shootings, which is far larger than some people want to admit.

In the broad strokes, we know the gunman in Florida had mental health issues, and had been dealing with some very rough circumstances in his life. We know that he harbored or appeared to harbor extremist viewpoints. We know the family that took him in had no idea about any of it until it was all over.

We know that he was fascinated with school shootings and had been making comments online about wanting to carry one out. We also know the Federal Bureau of Investigation knew about it and did nothing.

Similarly, a number of other mass shootings have involved human errors of similar natures that would have prevented the incident from happening.

Adam Lanza, the shooter in the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre, was also interested in school shootings. He was likewise mentally disturbed, but had resisted therapy and other treatments. His mother eventually stopped trying to get him help, just focusing on making it through each day with as few outbursts as possible. She kept firearms in the house, and allowed Adam access.

Devin Kelley, the Sutherland Springs shooter was only able to purchase the AR-15 he committed his crimes with because the Air Force failed to report that he’d been discharged for domestic violence to the FBI’s National Criminal Information Center, the database used by the NICS.

The Pulse Nightclub shooter’s ex-wife left him because of his violent tendencies. Had she called the cops and pursued domestic violence charges, he likely would have had to surrender his firearms. He wouldn’t have been able to purchase the Sig Sauer MCX that he used to carry out his crimes.

Sueng Hui Cho, perpetrator of the Virginia Tech massacre, had a history of disturbing behavior and was at one point court-ordered to seek behavioral treatment. However, this wasn’t reported to the NCIC and thus, he was able to purchase the handguns he used in his crimes.

And so it goes.

The point is that the mere presence of firearms on the marketplace is not the largest contributing factor in mass shootings. These events don’t occur in a vacuum; they are the culmination of a chain of events that stretch over months or years. At plenty of points before the event itself, there were opportunities for intervention that would have precluded any shooting from taking place.

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Watch Mother And Daughter Fight Off Armed Gunman With Their Own Guns

Scary.

Via Daily Caller:

A robber chose to mess with the wrong liquor store.

Graphic surveillance footage from Forest Acres Liquor Store in Tulsa, Okla., shows an armed robber breaking in and threatening the store clerks – a woman and her daughter – with a shotgun. He began taking cash from the register and briefly moved off-screen. Both women then went for guns of their own. When the robber came back, they opened fire.

The robber struggled for the mother’s gun while the daughter put a few well-placed shots into the man. The women left the store as the robber fell to the ground behind the register.

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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.

Via Miami Herald:

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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