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A CALL TO ARMS FOR AMERICA – IT IS TIME TO ACT! CHILDREN OF SANDY HOOK   STAND UP AND FIGHT THE REPUBLICANS, THE ESTABLISHMENT AND TELL THEM ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!   ORLANDO June 10, 2016 The mass murder of our children can no longer become victims as pawns in a deadly game in Congress. These are the Senators that when they were afforded the ability to prevent potential terrorist shooters from purchasing high tech assault weapons. The sad truth is that the Orlando Shooter purchases his weapon just two weeks prior to the carnage at Pulse nightclub.   Alexander (R-TN) Ayotte (R-NH) Barrasso (R-WY) Blunt (R-MO) Boozman (R-AR) Burr (R-NC) Capito (R-WV) Cassidy (R-LA) Coats (R-IN) Cochran (R-MS) Collins (R-ME) Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) Cotton (R-AR) Crapo (R-ID) Cruz (R-TX) Daines (R-MT) Enzi (R-WY) Ernst (R-IA) Fischer (R-NE) Flake (R-AZ) Gardner (R-CO) Graham (R-SC) G...

HOUSE SPEAKER BLOCKS  ASSAULT WEAPON DISCOURSE ON THE FLOOR DO YOU REALLY NEED THIS NOW? June 15, 2016 Just as predicted the House Republicans yesterday refused to entertain previous legislation introduced by Diane Feinstein (D-CA) that essentially ban sale of assault weapons to individuals who made the FBI top ten thousand list as a possible threat to security. Among the arguments for this bill is that those deemed to be classified as "No Fly" could not buy any weapon. NRA position is that this legislation would be a threat to the Second Amendment Right for citizens to bear arms. They argue that a law abiding citizen may by some error or glitch, appear on the "no fly" list and denied their 2nd Amendment Rights. Who is kidding who? I mean what are the chances of this to occur?  Is it maybe one in a million or even one in ten thousand is it not better to err on the side of caution? The law as written allows for provides for the citizen denied to appeal...