Contact your Assembly Member today! Today, July 27th, the California Legislature reconvened from the extended summer recess. As you recall, just prior to recess, the California Assembly sent AB 88, the Public Safety Budget Trailer Bill that was riddled with anti-gun language, back to the Senate for additional work. Unfortunately, when it comes to gun control
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In response to a public expression of lawful political speech, “safety officers” come to the person’s home at midnight to interrogate him. He is accused of intimidation, making threats, hate crimes, and disorderly conduct. He is found guilty and his punishment includes exclusion from the community, suspension of his academic privileges, a ban on taking
News broke this week that former Microsoft CEO and current owner of the Los Angeles Clippers NBA franchise, Steve Ballmer, has donated $7 million dollars to Michael Bloomberg’s gun control umbrella group, Everytown for Gun Safety. Put another way, a tech and sports titan reportedly worth over $72 billion is giving a media titan reportedly
Much like the rest of the country, Virginians have been buying firearms at a tremendous pace. According to data from the Virginia State Police, there was a 158 percent increase in firearm transactions in June 2020 when compared with June 2019. This came after a nearly 100 percent increase in May 2020 over May 2019.
In response to a public expression of lawful political speech, “safety officers” come to the person’s home at midnight to interrogate him. He is accused of intimidation, making threats, hate crimes, and disorderly conduct. He is found guilty and his punishment includes exclusion from the community, suspension of his academic privileges, a ban on taking
Merely observing those realities provokes familiar complaints. President Donald Trump and his allies insist that mainstream journalists offer “fake news” reflecting “bias” against the older, rural, conservative, Christian, White, working-class adherents of the modern GOP. But what if the accounting comes from one of the Republican Party’s most accomplished political strategists, an insider provoked by
When coronavirus lockdowns spread nationwide in March, millions of Americans flocked to their local grocery stores and wholesale markets to stock up for what would become months stuck at home. Black Americans did the same, but some had one addendum to their shopping list: a firearm. Since the beginning of the pandemic, there has been
Nickelodeon hit children’s cartoon “Paw Patrol” denied being canceled after White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said it would be as she condemned the impact of so-called cancel culture. “No need to worry. PAW Patrol is not canceled,” the show tweeted Friday. Ealier in the day, during a press briefing, McEnany said Trump is “appalled
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The rise of Donald Trump on the political stage is the culmination of a seemingly inconvenient electoral coupling: big money interests and a more extreme right-wing populace of blue collar voters. Does the GOP represent “forgotten” Americans? Or does it represent the super-rich? Guests Jacob Hacker, professor of political science and director of the Institution
Giffords, one of the nation’s most influential gun reform advocacy groups, has endorsed Democrat Amy Kennedy for Congress in New Jersey’s 2nd district. “Amy Kennedy is ready to make history by bringing a new voice to the halls of power,” said former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who founded the group after becoming the victim of gun
Pro-gun supporters gathered outside the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond on 20 January 2020 The story of how the former Confederacy capital turned blue is one of demographic shifts, a Democratic political machine and Donald Trump. In October 2008, mere weeks before the presidential election, Nancy Pfotenhauer, a former senior adviser to Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign, appeared on
Here’s what you need to know: Trump saw his convention as a potential success story. Reality intervened. Trump will sign an executive order aimed at lowering U.S. drug prices. Biden steps up warnings that Trump may try to ‘steal’ the election. Suppose Biden wins big in November. What would the effects be? The N.R.A., making
Last month, on the anniversary of 1989’s Tiananmen Square massacre in communist China, Austin Tong posted an Instagram photo of him holding his AR-15 with the accompanying phrase “don’t tread on me.” Image source: YouTube screenshot It seemed a more than fitting gesture. After all, Tong was born in China and moved to the United
Chinese immigrant student, 21, sues Fordham University after he was banned from campus over ‘Don’t tread on me’ post in which he held an AR-15 to commemorate anniversary of Tienanmen Square Austin Tong, 21, filed a lawsuit against Fordham Univsersity after they penalized him over two social media posts One showed a picture of David
The blaring July 13 headline in the New York Post said it all, “ENOUGH.” It was referring to the murder of one-year-old Davell Gardner when shooters opened fire on a group of people attending a barbecue in Brooklyn, New York. Referencing the “Black Lives Matter” movement, the boy’s grandmother told the paper that black lives don’t matter
The National Rifle Association has been conspicuously silent on police violence amid weeks of nationwide demonstrations, despite calling itself the “America’s longest-standing civil rights organization.” The NRA’s leaders and social media accounts have made no mention of the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, the protests, or the police violence against peaceful protesters. Advertisement: “The NRA
Austin Tong was an average college kid working on his degree from Fordham University in New York City when, last week, he posted a couple pictures on Instagram that made him the target of an irrational Internet mob and a scurrilous university investigation. The pictures he posted – which nearly got him kicked out of