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Actress Alyssa Milano Announces Meeting with Sen. Cruz to Discuss Disagreement on Guns

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Liberal activist and actress Alyssa Milano says she’s scheduled to meet with Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to discuss their differences on Second Amendment and gun violence issues.

On Sunday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) accepted a Twitter invitation by actress/activist Alyssa Milano to meet and “hear your bullsh*t 1st hand.”

On Wednesday, anti-gun activist Milano tweeted that she has scheduled a meeting with Cruz for next Tuesday, August 10, when she will be visiting Washington, D.C.

Milano says she will enter the meeting with an open mind, and that she plans to treat the pro-Second Amendment Republican senator with respect:

“I’ll be meeting with @tedcruz on Tuesday about guns.

“We don’t agree on this issue.

“But if we can talk with mutual respect & humility, maybe all of us come together to effect positive change.

“I will enter this with an open heart, ears and mind. I hope he does the same.”

 

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Four years after allowing universal ‘concealed carry’ law, Maine rated the safest state in the nation for crime

Since 2015, residents of the state of Maine have been allowed to carry a concealed firearm without any special permit, and now the results are in: crime has fallen to the point where the state is now rated the safest in the nation from the threat of crime. The Maine Examiner reports:

When Maine passed a “Constitutional Carry” law allowing Maine residents to carry a concealed firearm without any special permit in 2015, opponents of the law forecast a dangerous future for the state. They said the new law would hurt public safety and put Maine kids at risk.

One state representative who opposed the bill went so far as to say it would give Mainers a reason to be afraid every time they went out in public or to work.

Another state representative suggested the law would lead to violent criminals with recent arrests and convictions legally carrying handguns.

They were wrong, as wrong as the San Francisco Board of Supervisors labeling the NRA a “terrorist organization.” And for the same reason, the notion that a physical object, not human beings, causes evil.  The US News &World Report rankings of the safest states has named Maine as the safest state in the nation.

Public safety makes up 50 percent of the Best States for crime & corrections ranking. This subcategory evaluates both the violent crime rate and the property crime rate in each state, as measured by the FBI in 2017. Though some major cities, such as Chicago and Baltimore, have seen drastic increases in homicides in recent years, overall violent crime and property crime rates remain near historic lows.

A higher state ranking indicates a lower crime rate for these metrics. Maine ranks first in the nation for public safety. Fellow New England state Vermont places second in this subcategory, followed by New Hampshire, New Jersey and Idaho.

Beautiful… and safe, thanks to universal concealed carry (photo credit: PXhere)

As the Maine Examiner noted, second-ranking Vermont also has a constitutional carry law.

Guns in the hands of honest citizens decrease crime. That is fact that has been statistically demonstrated by John Lott’s pathbreaking book, More Guns, Less Crime, a rick-solid statistical analysis showing that when states pass “shall issue” concealed carry laws, crime goes down. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors should take note.

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Since 2015, residents of the state of Maine have been allowed to carry a concealed firearm without any special permit, and now the results are in: crime has fallen to the point where the state is now rated the safest in the nation from the threat of crime. The Maine Examiner reports:

When Maine passed a “Constitutional Carry” law allowing Maine residents to carry a concealed firearm without any special permit in 2015, opponents of the law forecast a dangerous future for the state. They said the new law would hurt public safety and put Maine kids at risk.

One state representative who opposed the bill went so far as to say it would give Mainers a reason to be afraid every time they went out in public or to work.

Another state representative suggested the law would lead to violent criminals with recent arrests and convictions legally carrying handguns.

They were wrong, as wrong as the San Francisco Board of Supervisors labeling the NRA a “terrorist organization.” And for the same reason, the notion that a physical object, not human beings, causes evil.  The US News &World Report rankings of the safest states has named Maine as the safest state in the nation.

Public safety makes up 50 percent of the Best States for crime & corrections ranking. This subcategory evaluates both the violent crime rate and the property crime rate in each state, as measured by the FBI in 2017. Though some major cities, such as Chicago and Baltimore, have seen drastic increases in homicides in recent years, overall violent crime and property crime rates remain near historic lows.

A higher state ranking indicates a lower crime rate for these metrics. Maine ranks first in the nation for public safety. Fellow New England state Vermont places second in this subcategory, followed by New Hampshire, New Jersey and Idaho.

Beautiful… and safe, thanks to universal concealed carry (photo credit: PXhere)

As the Maine Examiner noted, second-ranking Vermont also has a constitutional carry law.

Guns in the hands of honest citizens decrease crime. That is fact that has been statistically demonstrated by John Lott’s pathbreaking book, More Guns, Less Crime, a rick-solid statistical analysis showing that when states pass “shall issue” concealed carry laws, crime goes down. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors should take note.

Hat tip: Bryan Demko

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Sanders: My Administration Would Feature Population Control In Climate Fight

Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) said his administration would feature population control provisions in order to combat climate change during CNN’s climate change town hall on Wednesday night.

An audience member asked Sanders about "educating everyone on the need to curb population growth."

"Good evening. Human population growth has more than doubled in the past 50 years. The planet cannot sustain this growth. I realize this is a poisonous topic for politicians, but it’s crucial to face," the audience member asked. "Empowering women and educating everyone on the need to curb population growth seems a reasonable campaign to enact. Would you be courageous enough to discuss this issue and make it a key feature of a plan to address climate catastrophe?"

"The answer is yes," Sanders responded. "And the answer has everything to do with the fact that women in the United States of America, by the way, have a right to control their own bodies and make reproductive decisions."

"And the Mexico City agreement, which denies American aid to those organizations around the world that allow women to have abortions or even get involved in birth control to me is totally absurd," he continued. "So I think especially in poor countries around the world where women do not necessarily want to have large numbers of babies and where they can have the opportunity through birth control to control the number of kids they have, is something I very, very strongly support."

This characterization is misleading as the Mexico City policy specifically refers to abortion, not birth control in general.

The policy, created by the Reagan administration in 1984, forbids foreign non-governmental organizations from using American federal funding to "perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning."

Critics of the policy refer to it as the "global gag rule" because it forbids NGOs from providing abortion referrals.

The Washington Examiner’s Jay Caruso called attention to the mischaracterization on Twitter:

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Pete Buttigieg: If You Eat Meat Or Use Straws, You Are ‘Part Of The Problem’

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said Thursday morning on CNN that if you use straws or eat hamburgers, you are "part of the problem."
Appearing on CNN’s "New Day" with Alisyn Camerota, Buttigieg continued to push the notion, increasingly popular on the far-left, that fighting climate change is somehow equivalent to the United States’ fight against the Nazis in World War II.

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Snowflake crybully wants people to stop wearing red caps because she feels triggered by MAGA hats

Normally, I wouldn’t comment on a ridiculous demand from a leftist who feels triggered by something conservatives do and wants everyone to change their behavior so her emotional stability won’t be threatened any longer. But this snowflake bully is a serious author, a winner of many literary awards, and the demand is utterly, mind-bogglingly stupid.

Check out what Rebecca Makkai wants:

Don’t you love the appropriation of the title “normal” by someone who cannot cope with a primary color?

She doubled down on her idiocy:

And went full Swastika on Trump:

This is an example of solipsism, a philosophical concept one’s own mind is the only thing a person can know exists, from which many corollaries follow. But it is most quickly grasped visually:

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As you might expect, raucous laughter from the right has greeted this petulant demand. Mary Chastain of Legal Insurrection has a great selection of tweets, such as:

I suppose that Ms. Makkai will gain literary luster for her display of solipsism, because she has a new complaint against deplorable Trump supporters. Such is the level of corruption of oru cultural elites.

Normally, I wouldn’t comment on a ridiculous demand from a leftist who feels triggered by something conservatives do and wants everyone to change their behavior so her emotional stability won’t be threatened any longer. But this snowflake bully is a serious author, a winner of many literary awards, and the demand is utterly, mind-bogglingly stupid.

Check out what Rebecca Makkai wants:

Don’t you love the appropriation of the title “normal” by someone who cannot cope with a primary color?

She doubled down on her idiocy:

And went full Swastika on Trump:

This is an example of solipsism, a philosophical concept one’s own mind is the only thing a person can know exists, from which many corollaries follow. But it is most quickly grasped visually:

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As you might expect, raucous laughter from the right has greeted this petulant demand. Mary Chastain of Legal Insurrection has a great selection of tweets, such as:

I suppose that Ms. Makkai will gain literary luster for her display of solipsism, because she has a new complaint against deplorable Trump supporters. Such is the level of corruption of oru cultural elites.

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Trump Admin. Preps Proposal to Execute Mass Shooters Faster

The Trump administration has prepared draft legislation to expedite capital cases against mass shooters, it announced Monday.

Marc Short, Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, told reporters to expect the legislation as part of a larger gun control proposal from the White House, Fox News reports. The total legislative package is expected after Congress returns from its August recess on September 9th.

The announcement comes after a mass shooting in Odessa, Texas, in which a gunman killed five and injured 22 people. On Sunday, President Donald Trump called the shooter "another very sick person," and said that shootings were "a big problem. It’s a mental problem."

Short did not share further details, but the legislation has been in the works for at least a month. In early August, following the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, Trump called for the implementation of a federal death penalty for hate crimes, adding that it should "be delivered quickly, decisively, and without years of needless delay."

Later that month, Attorney General William Barr told the Fraternal Order of Police’s biennial conference that his department was working on legislation establishing "a timetable for judicial proceedings" involving the execution of mass murderers or offenders who murder police officers.

An expedited timetable for executions would reflect the growing concern among many conservatives that the capital trial process has become bloated by an indefinite appellate process. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the 23 people executed in 2017 had been on death row an average of over 20 years after conviction.

The new legislation is likely to draw sharp opposition from Democrats in Congress, including those running for president. Essentially every major 2020 Democrat publicly supports death penalty abolition, with the possible exception of former vice president Joe Biden. The White House’s push to execute mass murderers could give the president an electoral advantage on the issue, as majorities of the population consistently support the use of the death penalty.

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Faculty At Kansas University Want Chick-Fil-A Thrown Off Campus: It’s A ‘Bastion Of Bigotry’

At Kansas University, some faculty members, calling Chick-fil-A a "bastion of bigotry," are fighting against allowing America’s most popular fast-food chain to move from a campus basement to the school’s main student center as well as sponsor the "Chick-fil-A Coin Toss" for every home football game. The fast-food chain has operated for 15 years in the basement of KU’s Wescoe Hall, as Kansascity.com reported.

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Joe Biden Pushes Ban on Gun Magazines Secret Service Used to Protect Him

Democrat presidential hopeful Joe Biden pushed a ban on the very magazines Secret Service agents used to protect him while he was Vice President under former President Barack Obama.

Biden did this by calling for a ban on gun magazines holding “multiple bullets.”

The Secret Service uses an array of firearms to carry out its protection duties. The Military Times reports that Secret Service agents’ current sidearm is a Sig Sauer 229 variant chambered in .357 Sig. The 229 uses magazines that hold “multiple bullets.”

Sig Sauer’s website contains information for a 229 Nitro Compact, which ships with two ten-round magazines. Such magazines would fall apparently be banned if there were a prohibition against magazines holding “multiple bullets.”

Moreover, the Secret Service is working to trade the .357 Sig round for a 9mm. This entails switching from the Sig Sauer to a Glock 19 for “standard issue,” meaning 15-round magazines, at the least. Again, 15-round magazines are those that hold “multiple bullets” and would therefore be prohibited under the parameters Biden presented.

It is important to note that an individual Secret Service agent can carry more than one gun at once, depending on the assignment and whether the agent needs both hands free to carry out their duties. Agents carrying more than one gun could have their sidearm, with a magazine holding “multiple bullets,” and a sub-machine gun, also using magazines that hold “multiple bullets.”

Joe Biden is also campaigning for a requirement that all guns lock and unlock like smart phones.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.

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At Least 41 Shot, 7 Fatally, over Labor Day Weekend in Chicago

At least 41 people were shot, seven fatally, over Labor Day Weekend 2019 in Democrat-controlled Chicago.

On Sunday morning–the halfway point of the weekend–Breitbart News reported 25 individuals had already been wounded and seven killed. Those fatalities included a 15-year-old boy who was killed Sunday morning.

The Chicago Sun-Times reported the weekend’s fatalities began around 12:22 a.m. Saturday, when 42-year-old Willie Coker was shot to death on South Burley Avenue. A total of seven people were killed before Labor  Day itself even began.

The Chicago Tribune reports six people were shot between Sunday night and “the first hours of Labor Day.”

Labor Day itself was quickly followed by another fatality,  which occurred overnight between Monday and Tuesday.  A 32-year-old man fatally shot in the head in the incident.

On Labor Day, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) used Chicago’s gun violence as an example to show gun control does not equate to crime control. He tweeted, “Gun control doesn’t work. Look at Chicago. Disarming law-abiding citizens isn’t the answer. Stopping violent criminals—prosecuting & getting them off the street—BEFORE they commit more violent crimes is the most effective way to reduce murder rates. Let’s protect our citizens.”

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.

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