Here’s the Truth About Trump Revoking Gun Checks on the ‘Mentally Ill’

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In the wake of the tragic South Florida school shooting that left at least 17 people dead, Democrats and their allies in the mainstream media have been pushing for a crackdown on Second Amendment rights, which they often strategically refer to as “gun safety legislation.”

While pushing such rash, broad and frequently unspecified “gun laws,” leftists have slammed President Donald Trump for eliminating a proposed Obama-era regulation which allegedly stopped the “mentally ill” from legally obtaining firearms.

See genius CNN anchor Chris Cuomo’s tweet for a perfect example:

The proposed rule was seriously broad, revoking Second and Fourth Amendment rights of tens of thousands of Americans, based merely on the fact that they received assistance in managing their disability payments from Social Security. The rule was rightly repealed by Congressional Republicans and President Trump.

As noted by Scott Shackford at Reason magazine, “This is a regulation that potentially deprived between 75,000 to 80,000 people of a right based not on what they had done but on the basis of being classified by the government in a certain way. The fact that these people may have these impairments did not inherently mean that they were dangerous to themselves or others and needed to be kept away from guns.” (Read more from “Here’s the Truth About Trump Revoking Gun Checks on the ‘Mentally Ill'” HERE)

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SCOTUS Signals Bad DACA News for Trump Admin

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The Supreme Court appears poised to reject the Justice Department’s request to overturn a lower court order requiring the continued administration of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program.

The high court’s Friday afternoon orders list showed no action on the petition, a strong indication it will be denied.

Scheduling constraints require the court to act quickly if they intend to hear the case before adjourning this summer. The Supreme Court sits from early October to late June, and the schedule for a given term is generally set by January.

If the justices planned to add a case to their docket at this late juncture, they would do so quickly.

The court may yet grant the request, but the odds decrease with time.

A denial would not seriously hinder President Donald Trump’s long-term plans to wind down the program.

Judge William Alsup of the federal trial court in San Francisco, California, found that the Trump administration’s termination of DACA was based on a flawed legal premise, rendering the decision “arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, (and) otherwise not in accordance with law.”

The order does not require the administration to process new applicants for the program.

In an extraordinary procedural move, the government appealed directly to the Supreme Court.

Under normal procedure, the government would challenge Alsup’s order at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a principle antagonist to Trump’s ambitions throughout his presidency.

Solicitor General Noel Francisco, the government’s Supreme Court lawyer, argued the case required the tribunal’s urgent attention, as Alsup’s decision “requires the government to sanction indefinitely an ongoing violation of federal law being committed by nearly 700,000 aliens.”

If the justices turn down the government’s request, the Justice Department will revert to ordinary procedure and appeal to the 9th Circuit.

If the 9th Circuit upholds Alsup’s ruling, the government can then return to the Supreme Court.

The University of California system brought the suit challenging DACA’s termination.

The system is led by Janet Napolitano, the former secretary of Homeland Security who presided over DACA’s original promulgation during former President Barack Obama’s administration.

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

Media Ignoring 1 Crucial Factor in Florida Shooting

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Here we go again. A horrific mass shooting occurs. Everyone is in shock and grief. Democrats blame guns and Republicans. Pundits urge the public, “If you see something, say something.” And everyone asks, “Why?” . . .

Here’s a good way to tell whether or not something is a conspiracy theory: If it’s true, it’s not a conspiracy theory.

In the case of Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old Florida mass-shooter, his mother’s sister, Barbara Kumbatovich, told the Miami Herald that she believed Cruz was on medication to deal with his emotional fragility.

This is strikingly similar to reports right after the 2013 school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, when Mark and Louise Tambascio, family friends of shooter Adam Lanza and his mother, were interviewed on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” during which Louise Tambascio told correspondent Scott Pelley: “I know he was on medication and everything, but she homeschooled him at home cause he couldn’t deal with the school classes sometimes, so she just homeschooled Adam at home. And that was her life.” And here, Tambascio tells ABC News, “I knew he was on medication, but that’s all I know.

Fact: A disturbing number of perpetrators of school shootings and similar mass murders in our modern era were either on – or just recently coming off of – psychiatric medications. (Read more from “Media Ignoring 1 Crucial Factor in Florida Shooting” HERE)

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Mueller Indicts Russian in Scheme to ‘Disparage’ Hillary

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A grand jury indictment released Friday by Special Counsel Robert Mueller accuses 13 Russian nationals and three companies of interfering in the 2016 presidential election.

The indictment says the nationals, posing as Americans, contacted members of the Trump campaign.

But authorities said there was no allegation any American was a knowing participant . . .

A Russian organization called the Internet Research Agency sought to wage “information warfare” against the United States beginning in 2014, the indictment charges, and by early to mid-2016 the Russian nationals were “supporting the presidential campaign of then-candidate Donald J. Trump … and disparaging Hillary Clinton.”

The indictment cites American laws regulating the activities of foreigners to prevent “improper foreign influences on U.S. elections and on the U.S. political system.” (Read more from “Mueller Indicts Russian in Scheme to ‘Disparage’ Hillary” HERE)

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Al-Qaida ‘Warrior’ Gets Life for Killing 2 U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan

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A Saudi-born follower of al-Qaida who was convicted in March of killing two U.S. service members in Afghanistan received a life seentence Friday in a New York courtroom.

But Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Harun, a self-described al-Qaida “warrior,” refused to attend his sentencing.

“I can’t think of a more serious crime,” U.S. District Judge Brian M. Cogan said as he announced the sentence for Harun in a Brooklyn, N.Y., courtroom where a monitor showing the entrance to Harun’s cell rested near his lawyers. Harun also had refused to attend his trial last year.

The judge rejected Harun’s claim that he was more a soldier than a terrorist, saying Harun wanted to kill “dozens or maybe hundreds of Americans” and those from other nationalities, as well . . .

A jury last March convicted Harun after prosecutors said he confessed while in Italian custody that he threw a grenade and shot at an American military unit in a 2003 ambush that killed Army Pvt. Jerod Dennis, of Antlers, Okla., and Air Force Airman Ray Losano, of Del Rio, Texas. (Read more from “Al-Qaida ‘Warrior’ Gets Life for Killing 2 U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan” HERE)

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FBI Admits Botching Another Lead on Florida Killer

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One month prior to the massacre Wednesday at a South Florida high school, the FBI was warned that 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz might carry out such an attack, but investigators failed to act on the lead, the bureau has admitted.

The FBI said in a statement that it received the tip last month from a person close to Cruz. The teen has been charged with killing 17 people Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

The bureau said the tip should have been pursued “as a potential threat to life,” but “protocols were not followed.”

“We are still investigating the facts,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray in the statement. “I am committed to getting to the bottom of what happened in this particular matter, as well as reviewing our processes for responding to information that we receive from the public.”

As WND reported, the FBI also was alerted in September that someone with the user name Nikolas Cruz posted a comment on YouTube that he aspired to be “a professional school shooter.” Authorities now believe the comment was written by the suspect in the Florida shooting. (Read more from “FBI Admits Botching Another Lead on Florida Killer” HERE)

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Murkowski and Her New Gang of 8 Push For Amnesty of Virtually ALL Illegal Aliens – Including FUTURE Illegals

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Eight Republican senators just signed onto Sen. Chuck Schumer’s, D-N.Y., newly introduced amendment to grant de facto amnesty to every single illegal alien of any age present in this country who has not been convicted of a serious crime. Additionally, it invites people to sneak over the border for the next four months to enjoy amnesty as well. The American people need to know who these people are. Call them the new Gang of Eight:

Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)

Mike Rounds (S.D.)

Johnny Isakson (Ga.)

Lamar Alexander (Tenn.)

Susan Collins (Maine)

Jeff Flake (Ariz.)

Lindsey Graham (S.C.)

Cory Gardner (Colo.)

It is quite evident by the pencil marks on the bill that Schumer wrote the bill but then filed it in the names of Mike Rounds and Angus King, I-Maine. I doubt Rounds even understands the consequences of this bill. Yet, this man who never ran on amnesty is now granting amnesty forever and shutting down all deportations.

Take a look at the final page of the amendment:

Penciled in at the end is the crossing out of 2012 as the cut-off date for amnesty and dictating that anyone who comes to the United States after June 30, 2018 – 4 months from now – will get de facto amnesty. This is extremely dangerous and unconscionable that eight Republicans would sign onto such a proposal. While the cut-off for affirmative amnesty with positive legal status is still 2012, this bill dictates that DHS shall “prioritize available immigration resources” only for criminal aliens (and not all criminals) or those brought after four months from now.

This essentially shuts down the deportation of almost every illegal alien currently in the country while simultaneously inviting in new illegals to flood our borders for four months under the promise of no deportation.

Think about it: even under current law when statute unambiguously dictates that all illegals must be deported, fake judges are granted judicial amnesty and saying you are not allowed to deport those who aren’t dangerous criminals. Once it is written clearly in statute that DHS SHALL prioritize only those who come later, the courts will invalidate every single deportation of anyone who came before that point.

This also means that all of the MS-13 gang members who came in from Central America in 2014 (and are still coming) as a result of DACA amnesty will now be free from deportation.

So much for the general sentiments of “dreamers” and “of no fault of their own.” We always knew this was a down payment to abolish deportations and national sovereignty.

And even the affirmative amnesty provisions apply to anyone under the age of 43. It is not just those who received DACA, but at least 3 million illegals and it provides a clear pathway for millions of their parents.

Now consider this: Senator Cory Gardner, R, Colo., is the man in charge of recruiting other candidates to run as…Republicans. The chairman of the Republican Senatorial Committee now wants to grant amnesty to every illegal here and essentially shut down all deportations in the courts in perpetuity.

It’s time for President Trump to walk away. And it’s time for GOP voters to pledge to never vote for any of these Republicans in a primary or general election ever again.

Game. Set. Match. We have no country left. (For more from the author of “Meet the New Gang of 8: GOP Senators Push Amnesty for FUTURE Illegal Aliens” please click HERE)

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Disturbing Details Emerge: Florida Shooter ‘Murdered’ Animals and Posted Photos

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More disturbing details have emerged about the suspect charged in the Wednesday shooting at a high school in Florida.

Nikolas Cruz, 19, allegedly opened fire with an AR-15 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in South Florida, killing at least 17 people. Cruz was charged Thursday with 17 counts of premeditated murder.

Many of Cruz’s classmates and neighbors did not seem surprised at his actions, pointing to his interactions with animals and what he posted on social media as evidence of his mental health issues, the U.K. Daily Mail reported.

Malcolm Roxburgh, one of his neighbors, said that Cruz seemed to target the family across the street who had pigs.

‘He didn’t like the pigs and didn’t like the neighbors, so he sent over his dog over there to try to attack them,” Roxburgh said, according to the Daily Mail.

A different neighbor, Shelby Speno, said that she saw Cruz shooting at someone’s chickens.

Cruz’s neighbors were not the only ones who noticed his wrongful treatment of animals, his former classmates recalled disturbing social media posts.

Dakota Mutchler, one of Cruz’s classmates, told the Daily Mail that Cruz had posted things on Instagram about killing animals and even talked about doing target practice in his backyard with a pellet gun.

A different student said that Cruz’s mental health issues were “ignored by all the adults.”

“He literally had an Instagram where he posted pictures of animals he killed gruesomely and he physically assaulted one of my friends once,” the student said.

Joshua Charo, another former classmate, told the Miami Herald that “(Cruz) seemed like the kind of kid who would do something like this.”

“He used to tell me he would shoot rats with his BB gun and he wanted this kind of gun, and how he liked to always shoot for practice.”

On Wednesday, YouTube user Ben Bennight posted a video to the platform claiming that in September 2017, a user named “Nikolas Cruz” posted a disturbing comment on one of his videos.

“Im going to be a professional school shooter,” the comment read.

On top of the social media posts, Jordan Jereb — the leader of a white nationalist militia — said Thursday that Cruz was a member of his group.

Jereb’s organization, the Republic of Florida, wants Florida to “become its own white ethno-state,” The Associated Press reported.

Though the group tries to avoid most involvement with the modern world, Jereb told the AP that they hold “spontaneous random demonstrations.” Cruz, Jereb said, used to participate in paramilitary drills with the white nationalist group in Tallahassee.

Jereb did not know Cruz personally, but he did note that the suspected killer was having “trouble with a girl.” As a result, he thinks it was no coincidence that the attack was carried out on Valentine’s Day.

Still, Jereb emphasized that Cruz “acted on his own behalf of what he just did and he’s solely responsible for what he just did.” (For more from the author of “Disturbing Details Emerge: Florida Shooter Murdered Animals and Posted Photos” please click HERE)

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WikiLeaks Private Messages About ‘Sadistic Sociopath’ Hillary Leaked

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Leading up to the 2016 election, Julian Assange made no bones publicly about his opposition to Hillary Clinton, so to find out in private messages just leaked to The Intercept that he believed her presidency would be far worse than a Republican presidency is unsurprising. That said, some of the leaked “low security channel” messages between Assange and various WikiLeaks’ key online boosters contain some juicy quotes about Clinton, as well as an unfiltered insight into Assange’s approach to the 2016 election.

Assange’s WikiLeaks played a significant role in the 2016 election by leaking politically-damaging internal emails from the Democratic Party and Clinton allies. In the WikiLeaks chats shared with The Intercept, some of Assange’s motives for his campaign against Clinton are spelled out in black and white.

“We believe it would be much better for GOP to win,” he wrote on November 19, 2015, in a private Twitter direct message with the group of high-level supporters. “Dems+Media+liberals woudl then form a block to reign in their worst qualities. With Hillary in charge, GOP will be pushing for her worst qualities., dems+media+neoliberals will be mute.”

Two minutes later, he added his most scathing criticism of Clinton: “She’s a bright, well connected, sadistic sociopath.”

Assange made clear that rather than supporting Republicans, he stood in opposition to a Democratic stranglehold on the government, the power of which the media would fail to adequately check. That unchecked power, particularly in the hands of a “hawkish” Clinton, he suggested, is more likely to lead to “start[ing] wars.” (Read more from “WikiLeaks Private Messages About ‘Sadistic Sociopath’ Hillary Leaked” HERE)

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Second Appeals Court Strikes Down Trump Travel Ban

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The Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily banning travel from eight countries recognized as state sponsors of terrorism: North Korea, Venezuela, Somalia, Chad, Yemen, Libya, Syria, and Iran.

This marks the second time a federal appeals court has overruled the ban; the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a similar ruling last year, and an appeal from their decision has already been accepted by the United States Supreme Court.

In the 9-4 ruling, the panel of appeals judges sitting en banc determined that, after taking into account statements made by Trump Administration officials and surrounding discussion about the travel ban, that the action was unduly restrictive to Islamic travelers, and that it was “unconstitutionally tainted with animus towards Islam.”

The Trump Administration argued that, because the new ban considered only six majority Muslim countries, and featured at least two countries that did not have a religious majority — North Korea and Venezuela — that it was not unconstitutionally restrictive. Immigration from Venezuela was still allowed, and the United States is still able to issue student visas to visitors from Iran, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, and Chad, provided applicants have a sponsoring educational institution.

North Korea is the only country for whom all travel and immigration is completely banned. (Read more from “Second Appeals Court Strikes Down Trump Travel Ban” HERE)

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