UNREAL: House Democrats Move to Outlaw Most New Guns in America, Virtually ALL Semi-Automatics

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Semi-automatic firearms would be banned in a new bill introduced by House Democrats Monday.

Rep. David Cicilline introduced the Assault Weapons Ban of 2018 and, according to Rep. Ted Deutch, over 150 Democrats have signed their support of the legislation.

The bill prohibits the “sale, transfer, production, and importation” of semi-automatic rifles and pistols that can accept a detachable magazine as well as those with a fixed magazine that can hold over 10 rounds.

It also bans the “sale, transfer, production, and importation of any ammunition feeding device that can hold more than 10 rounds” and any of the 205 “specifically-named and listed firearms.”

Cicilline’s 205 specifically banned firearms include the AK-47 and AR-15, according to the Washington Examiner.

The AR-15 has been used most recently in the deadly shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14 and the Las Vegas music festival on Oct. 1.

“Assault weapons were made for one purpose,” Cicilline wrote in a news release. “They are designed to kill as many people as possible in a short amount of time. They do not belong in our communities.”

He added, “When assault weapons or a highly-capacity magazine is used in a shooting, the number of victims who are killed increases by 63 percent.”

Gun control activists began to campaign against “assault weapons” in the 1980s, according to the NRA Institute for Legislative Action.

“The weapons’ menacing looks, coupled with the public’s confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons — anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun — can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons,” handgun ban activist Josh Sugarmann said in 1988.

An “assault weapon” ban introduced by Sen. Dianne Feinstein and campaigned for by former President Bill Clinton was imposed from 1994-2004.

“It allowed the same firearms to be made without attachments such as a flash suppressor or folding stock, and allowed the importation of over 50 million magazines that held more than 10 rounds,” NRA Institute for Legislative Action reported.

After the flawed plan, many Democrats who supported the ban were voted out of office in the 1994 elections.

Feinstein introduced a bigger gun and magazine ban in 2013, banning 157 firearms by name instead of the 19 banned in 1994.

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro commented on CNN’s Anti-Gun Town Hall last week and dared Democrats to ban all semi-automatic weapons and see how voters respond come Election Day.

“All that’s happening is the ongoing demonization of those who disagree with unrealistic, vague and evidenceless anti-gun buzzwords,” he said.

Shapiro doesn’t think a ban on guns will solve the issue of mass shootings, but in an op-ed, the editor in chief of The Daily Wire put forward several ideas that might actually work.

“We can insist that our law enforcement agencies actually enforce the law,” he wrote, pointing out that the FBI had received prior warnings about the suspected Florida shooter, but did nothing.

Moreover, “we should ensure more transparency in the background-check system with regard to mental health records, and we should look to ease the regulations on involuntary commitment of the dangerously mentally ill,” Shapiro wrote.

Finally, he wrote that “we should also radically increase security in schools.” (For more from the author of “Democrats Move to Outlaw 50% of New Guns in America” please click HERE)

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FLASHBACK: Donald Trump Rushed to Stop an Assailant in 1991 Even Though He Didn’t Have a Weapon

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Democrats, true to ignorant form, are once again frivolously giggling at President Trump for suggesting he would have entered the Parkland school building unarmed during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. At a meeting with governors to discuss school safety measures, Trump explained, “I really believe I’d run in there, even if I didn’t have a weapon. And I think most of the people in this room would’ve done that too.” Trump’s opponents on the Left quickly pounced. Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane posted a GIF image of President Trump apparently showing fear as a bald eagle nearly bit him. 1970s film star Mark Hamill tweeted, “#ItsFunToPretend.” Twitter user Bryce Tache wrote, “You’ll never be the hero. Never.”

Trump’s lightly-educated critics ignore history, including a 1991 incident in which The Donald rush to stop a mugging in New York and chased the armed assailant away, despite lacking any weapon himself. As James Rosen reported at the time in the New York Daily News, “When he saw ‘a big guy with a big bat’ bashing another fellow, Donald Trump did what any self-respecting billionaire would do: He ordered his driver to pull over.” Trump confronted the armed assailant, who recognized him and claimed not to have done anything wrong. Trump reportedly asked the mugger, “How could you not do anything wrong when you’re whacking a guy with a bat?” The mugger then ran away.

Lest readers write the story off as mere Trumpian fiction, Rosen adds that a witness corroborated the account. (Read more from “FLASHBACK: Donald Trump Rushed to Stop an Assailant in 1991 Even Though He Didn’t Have a Weapon” HERE)

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Scientists Make Major Breakthrough in Fight Against Alzheimer’s Disease

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Scientists at the the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute have successfully reversed Alzheimer’s disease in mice, a major breakthrough researchers are hopeful will translate into treatment for humans in the near future.

“To our knowledge, this is the first observation of such a dramatic reversal of amyloid deposition in any study of Alzheimer’s disease mouse models,” said researcher Riqiang Yan in a news release concerning the study . . .

Researchers found that the deletion of BACE1 in adult mice reversed amyloid deposition and improved cognitive functions.

“One of the earliest events in Alzheimer’s disease is an abnormal buildup of beta-amyloid peptide, which can form large, amyloid plaques in the brain and disrupt the function of neuronal synapses. Also known as beta-secretase, BACE1 helps produce beta-amyloid peptide by cleaving amyloid precursor protein (APP),” explains the Rockefeller University Press release.

The scientists successfully “generated mice that gradually lose this enzyme as they grow older. These mice developed normally and appeared to remain perfectly healthy over time,” notes the release. (Read more from “Scientists Make Major Breakthrough in Fight Against Alzheimer’s Disease” HERE)

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This Parkland Shooting Survivor Is Being Abused by the Media

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The depraved national media has done a great disservice to David Hogg and to the American people.

Hogg, 17, a survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting that left 17 dead and several more injured, has become something of a media celebrity. In the past two weeks, he has zoomed from one cable news program to another, demanding gun control legislation and attacking the National Rifle Association and its spokeswoman, Dana Loesch. Egged on by the news anchors who have given him a national spotlight as a political prop, Hogg is making statements that are increasingly misleading, highly emotional, and distressingly injurious.

Over the weekend, Hogg accused the NRA of owning politicians, decrying its activism on behalf of millions of law-abiding gun owners as “disgusting.” He accused Loesch of “serving the gun manufacturers” on George Stephanopoulos’ program on ABC. On CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” Hogg attributed false motives to Loesch, whom he erroneously referred to as the “CEO” of the NRA, arguing that she defends the Second Amendment so that gun manufacturers can “sell more guns.” In the process, he claimed that Loesch doesn’t care about NRA members and doesn’t care about the police, assaults on her character that those who know Loesch find slanderous.

On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” show Monday, Hogg demanded that Florida Gov. Rick Scott, R, be “held accountable” for the shooting while defending the inaction and ineptitude of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. Hogg defended the sheriff’s deputies who stood by as his classmates were slaughtered, arguing that Gov. Scott’s administration is really to blame because “they’re in charge of them.”

“They should have been regulating them,” Hogg said. “I’m not going to allow them to pressure these people because at the end of the day it’s their fault. These elected officials are the boss of these sheriff personnel and just like the president is the boss of the FBI, Governor Rick Scott is essentially the boss of Scott Israel, the sheriff, and as such he should be held accountable.”

“He can’t just blame this on the bureaucracy and expect to get re-elected,” he added.

Hogg’s statements went unchallenged, despite his disjointed argument and the fact that Gov. Scott is term-limited and is not seeking re-election. As Charles Cooke points out:

Gov. Scott is blameless. The NRA is blameless. The blame lies with the shooter and with the complete and utter failure of law enforcement, from the federal level to Sheriff Scott Israel’s department, to protect the children who died in the Parkland shooting from him. But the students who point that out only get airtime on Fox News, while the other cable networks promote Hogg as he continues to say things that are just plain wrong.

News anchors do not correct him. They don’t challenge his untruths. The media has turned Hogg into a spectacle, parading his activist statements in prime time and giving him a platform to spread immature and unserious attacks against those who stand against gun control. The media is wielding his tongue as a sword and his suffering as a shield to advance its narrative and deflect criticism. In doing so, they are teaching him his attacks are right and good and encouraging him.

So Hogg says new and more outrageous things with each TV appearance. And he becomes damaged with each new erroneous statement.

Hogg, a survivor of the worst kind of traumatic event, a boy who deserves our sympathy and support, is embarrassing himself. The adults ought to intervene. But instead of saving him from himself, the activist media lets him feed the American people disinformation as it continues its assault on the Second Amendment.

The media objective is, as it always has been, to put left-wing activism ahead of the truth. Hogg is being ill-used to this end. (For more from the author of “This Parkland Shooting Survivor Is Being Abused by the Media” please click HERE)

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CNN Analyst: Women Aren’t Able to Carry Guns

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Women can’t carry … There have been a lot of hot takes when it comes to the idea that teachers who have concealed carry weapons permits already should be allowed to carry in classrooms. But this take from CNN law enforcement analyst Tom Fuentes on why female teachers can’t carry a gun is just outrageous. Fuentes said on CNN Newsday that women who wear skirts and dresses won’t have a place to carry that gun concealed. Here, you can watch for yourself. Talk about misogyny.

I can’t figure out why … We now know that the Broward County Sheriff’s Office was called to the home of the accused Parkland school shooter multiple times. The FBI was warned about him. We know that at least one and possibly four deputies didn’t enter the school to stop the shooting, and Laura Ingraham reported last night that deputies were ordered not to enter the school unless they had body cameras. There are real, serious reasons why people are calling for Broward County Sheriff Israel to resign.

Enter the Washington Post. In this article about those calls, the authors paint a picture that the calls for Israel to resign are a partisan witch-hunt and purely political in nature. That’s the farthest thing from the truth. The calls for Israel to resign are based upon known facts and Israel’s own blame-shifting.

Fallon turns activist … Since Donald Trump was inaugurated as president, there has been one late-night television host who has tried to steer clear of politics and activism. While Steven Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel have had no trouble jumping into politics, “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon has taken a more neutral tack. That has changed. Fallon will participate in a gun control march with Parkland students. He announced it on his show last night.

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DOJ Going After FISA Abuse That Targeted Trump Campaign

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday that the Department of Justice inspector general will be investigating the agency’s use of the FISA court to obtain a spy warrant against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

“We believe the Department of Justice must adhere to the highest standards in the FISA court, and yes it will be investigated, and I think that’s just the appropriate thing, the Inspector General will take that as one of the matters he’ll deal with,” Sessions told reporters at a briefing Tuesday.

House Republicans have alleged that the DOJ and FBI provided inaccurate and incomplete information in four applications for FISA warrants against Page.

They say that the applications relied heavily on the dossier but failed to disclose that the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee funded the unverified document.

Democrats have countered by pointing out that the FISA applications disclosed the FBI “speculated” that the dossier was paid for by a politically motivated client.

Page, an energy consultant, was under surveillance from Oct. 21, 2016, through September 2017.

Sessions has previously indicated that the Justice Department planned to investigate potential FISA abuses, but he did not say that the matter would be handled by the office of the inspector general, which is led by Michael Horowitz.

“Let me tell you, every FISA warrant based on facts submitted to that court have to be accurate,” Sessions told Fox’s Maria Bartiromo in an interview earlier in February.

“That will be investigated and looked at, and we are not going to participate as a Department of Justice in providing anything less than a proper disclosure to the court before they issue a FISA warrant. Other than that, I’m not going to talk about the details of it, but I tell you, we’re not going to let that happen,” he said.

Horowitz is already conducting an investigation into the FBI’s handling of the Clinton email investigation.

So far, that probe has uncovered politically charged text message exchanges between FBI agent Peter Strzok and his mistress, FBI lawyer Lisa Page.

Strzok and Page both worked on the Clinton investigation as well as the Russia probe.

Strzok was removed from special counsel Robert Mueller’s team in July after Horowitz discovered the text messages.

The inspector general’s office did not immediately return a request for comment.

A version of this article appeared on The Daily Caller News Foundation website.

Supreme Court Backs Trump… Massive Changes Underway for Illegal Aliens

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Immigrants detained for removal proceedings may be held indefinitely and are not entitled to a bail hearing, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

The ruling means that immigrant detainees, who are sometimes held for months and years on end, have no recourse to challenge their confinement.

Justice Samuel Alito delivered the opinion for the court, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy.

Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch joined most of Alito’s opinion, though they also wrote to say they do not believe the court had jurisdiction to hear the case.

In a rare move, Justice Stephen Breyer read part of his dissent in the courtroom during Tuesday’s proceedings. The justices only read their dissents from the bench when they mean to emphasize their disagreement with the majority.

Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor joined his opinion. Justice Elena Kagan was recused because she briefly participated in the case while serving in former President Barack Obama’s administration.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that individuals held in immigration jails pending deportation may have a hearing every six months to review the legitimacy of their detention. The 9th Circuit based its decision on a legal rule called the canon of constitutional avoidance.

The rule says that where a federal law has multiple interpretations, courts must rely on the interpretation that avoids constitutional problems.

Alito explained that this approach was mistaken, since the words of the statute clearly do not provide bail hearings for detained immigrants.

“That is not how the canon of constitutional avoidance works,” Alito wrote. “Spotting a constitutional issue does not give a court the authority to rewrite a statute as it pleases.”

The high court declined to say whether the Constitution requires bond hearings for aliens in detention. They asked the 9th Circuit to resolve that issue, and may review their determination at some future date.

The American Civil Liberties Union represents the immigrants who brought the action. They say detainees are eligible for bail under the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.

In dissent, Breyer made technical and conceptual points. As a definitional matter, he said that the word “detain” as it appears in the relevant law has sometimes meant simply “to restrain.”

Restraint, he says, could mean subjecting an individual to a number of restrictions (forbidding travel or contact with particular persons) that don’t include confinement. Therefore, by his telling, the word detain is consistent with bail.

He also said that bail is a basic, and important, component of the Anglo-American legal tradition.

“The bail questions before us are technical but at heart they are simple,” he wrote. “We need only recall the words of the Declaration of Independence, in particular its insistence that all men and women have ‘certain unalienable Rights,’ and that among them is the right to ‘Liberty.’” (For more from the author of “Supreme Court Backs Trump… Massive Changes Underway for Illegal Aliens” please click HERE)

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U.S. Air Force Chief Warns of Space War ‘in a Matter of Years’

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Speaking to an audience of active-duty airmen, US Air Force Chief of Staff General David L. Goldfein predicted it’ll only be a “matter of years” before American forces find themselves “fighting from space.” To prepare for this grim possibility, he said the Air Force needs new tools and a new approach to training leaders. Oh, and lots of money.

As reported by Breaking Defense, Goldfein made the comments this past Friday February 23 while delivering a speech at the Air Force Association’s 34th annual Air Warfare Symposium and Technology Exposition in Orlando, Florida.

“[It’s] time for us as a service, regardless of specialty badge, to embrace space superiority with the same passion and sense of ownership as we apply to air superiority today,” he said.

These are some of the strongest words yet from the Air Force chief of staff to get the Pentagon thinking about space—and to recognize the U.S. Air Force as the service branch best suited for the job. “I believe we’re going to be fighting from space in a matter of years,” he said. “And we are the service that must lead joint war fighting in this new contested domain. This is what the nation demands.”

The USAF and other military officials have been saying this for years, but Goldfein’s comments had an added sense of urgency this time around. Rep. Mike Rogers, the Strategic Forces Subcommittee chairman, recently proposed the creation of a new “Space Corps,” one that would be modeled after the Marines. The proposed service branch, it was argued, would keep the United States ahead of rival nations like Russia and China. The idea was scrapped this past December—at least for now. Needless to say, Rogers’ proposal did not go over well with the USAF; the creation of the first new uniformed service branch in 70 years would see Pentagon funds siphoned away from the Air Force. Hence Goldfein’s speech on Friday, in which he argued that the USAF is the service branch best positioned to protect American interests in space. (Read more from “U.S. Air Force Chief Warns of Space War ‘in a Matter of Years'” HERE)

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11 Ill After Suspicious Letter Arrives at Military Base

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By CNN. Eleven people fell ill after a suspicious letter was opened in an administrative building at Joint Base Fort Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia, on Tuesday, according to the Arlington County Fire Department.

A law enforcement official said field tests for the letter all came back negative for any harmful substance, but the FBI is transporting it tonight to its lab in Quantico for further analysis.

Of the 11 individuals who felt ill, three were transported to a local hospital and are in a stable condition, a spokesperson for the department said.

“An envelope containing an unknown substance was received, today, aboard Joint Base Ft. Myer-Henderson Hall. Personnel in the affected building took immediate preventative measures by evacuating the building,” according to Maj. Brian Block, a US Marine Corps spokesperson. (Read more from “11 Ill After Suspicious Letter Arrives at Military Base” HERE)

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11 People Fall Ill on Military Base After Opening Suspicious Letter, 3 Taken to Hospital, Reports Say

By The Daily Wire. On Tuesday, 11 people reportedly fell ill after being in the vicinity of a suspicious letter that was opened at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia. . .

The United States Marine Corps noted that “Several Marines are receiving medical care as a result of this incident.”

Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall is a joint military base that connects Fort Meyer, Fort McNair, Henderson Hall, and provides “installation services and support to Military Members, Civilians, Retirees and their Families with a quality of life commensurate with the quality of their service. On order, provide Base Support to MDW/JFHQ-NCR facilitating deployment of forces for Homeland Defense and Defense Support to Civil Authorities in the NCR.” (Read more from “11 People Fall Ill on Military Base After Opening Suspicious Letter, 3 Taken to Hospital, Reports Say” HERE)

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Government Now Looking to Hire Pagan Priests

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Move over Christians, there’s now a demand for pagan priests to help Wiccans and Druids behind bars.

The British government is now taking out advertisements looking for seven pagan chaplains to minister across the nation . . .

The right person must also “possess the confidence and expertise to lead open ritual, officiate in Rites of Passage, and run workshops for mixed Pagan traditions within the prison system.”

Paganism is a belief system that does not focus on the God of the Bible, but rather a wide variety of heathen traditions including witchcraft and ecology.

Besides Wiccans and Druids, others in the umbrella include Shamans, Heathens, Odinists and Sacred Ecologists. (Read more from “Government Now Looking to Hire Pagan Priests” HERE)

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