Pelosi Demands Gun Control after Florida Shooting, Actor Adam Baldwin Shows How Wrong She Is

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi joined a bevy of Hollywood personalities calling for greater gun control measures following the Wednesday shooting at a Florida high school that left 17 dead, while actor Adam Baldwin said the better response is within the schools themselves.

“Too many of these instances take place across the country. As leaders, we have a moral obligation to prevent them and protect our communities. We need more than thoughts and prayers #EnoughIsEnough,” Pelosi tweeted.

In response to Pelosi’s tweet, actor Baldwin wrote that schools need better security including not just armed guards, but volunteer staff members with concealed carry permits.

Security expert Mark Fuhrman agreed that better school security is needed.

“I think you need to make school security a specialty,” Fuhrman said. “You need to make it a specialty just like terrorism.”

However, Baldwin and Fuhrman were countered by an abundance of liberal entertainers using the tragedy to push anti-Trump, anti-gun and anti-God talking points.

Actor Mark Ruffalo went so far as to say God does not respond to just thoughts and prayers.

Talk show host Chelsea Handler called for Americans to elect candidates that are not supported by the National Rifle Association.

“It is disgusting how many times this has happened and Republicans do nothing. You all have blood on your hands,” she tweeted.

Actor and director Rob Reiner managed to tie the shooting to Trump and Russia, saying the chief executive “refuses to support sensible gun safety laws.”

Conservative commentator Lawrence Meyers, writing for Townhall, noted that after a rash of school shootings in the 1970s, Israel implemented security features and active shooter protocols at schools, which ended the problem.

“Guards don’t just stand around,” he wrote. “They check everyone entering, and engage threats.”

“And yeah, they’ve got guns.The lawful purposes for carrying guns are very clear: protect school personnel and students, create a sense of security, deter the ill-intentioned, and provide self-defense,” Meyers added.

Following Wednesday’s shooting, California Democrat Sen. Diane Feinstein tweeted that she has introduced legislation to impose a new assault weapons ban.

She pointed out the shooter used an AR-15, which is a semi-automatic weapon that would be covered by the ban.

Dudley Brown, president of the National Association of Gun Rights, in a statement to The Western Journal, said, “The 10-year Feinstein ban (passed in the 1990s) on so-called ‘Assault Weapons’ and normal capacity magazines did nothing to reduce mass shootings or crimes, and was roundly dismissed as a failure, even by gun control fanatics.”

Erich Pratt, the executive director of Gun Owners of America, agreed that more gun control measures will not address the mass shootings issue.

“[I]t is disgusting to see media pundits and politicians calling for gun control as the knee-jerk reaction to this tragedy,” he stated. “The fact is this tragedy happened in a gun free zone, where sadly over 98 percent of the public mass shootings occur.

“Furthermore, anti-gun liberals tell us that these types of shootings don’t occur in other countries. But that’s a lie. The U.S. is not even in the top ten when one compares international death rates resulting from mass shootings,” said Pratt.

As to the prevalence of privately owned weapons in the U.S., Daily Wire editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro tweeted a chart following the Las Vegas shooting last October showing that the murder rate has been trending down for decades in the U.S., despite gun ownership increasing significantly.

In other words, there is no correlation between the prevalence of guns and incidents of violent crime involving guns.

Notably, the rate remained low and then decreased further after the assault weapons ban, which was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1994, expired in 2004. (For more from the author of “Pelosi Demands Gun Control after Florida Shooting, Actor Adam Baldwin Shows How Wrong She Is” please click HERE)

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Army Drops Grenade Throwing Requirement to Graduate

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The United States Army will no longer require recruits to show they can throw hand grenades 25 meters because many of them can’t throw the explosive far enough, it revealed on Friday.

The Army says that starting next summer it will remove the requirement from its Basic Combat Training because it takes too much time to teach enlistees to throw grenades at an adequate distance . . .

‘What we have found is it is taking far, far too much time,’ said Maj. Gen. Malcolm Frost, the commanding general of the US Army Center of Initial Military Training.

‘It’s taking three to four times as much time … just to qualify folks on the hand grenade course than we had designated so what is happening is it is taking away from other aspects of training.’

‘We are finding that there are a large number of trainees that come in that quite frankly just physically don’t have the capacity to throw a hand grenade 20 to 25 to 30 meters,’ he said. (Read more from “Army Drops Grenade Throwing Requirement to Graduate” HERE)

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Florida Coach Acted as a Human Shield to Save Students

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On a day the Parkland community witnessed one of the worst mass shootings in Florida history, there is a story of courage and heroism about one man . . .

A lot of students and parents are talking about one man, a football coach, who according to CBS4 News partner the Miami Herald, was also a security guard at the school.

That coach, identified by students and parents as Aaron Feis, may have acted as a human shield to protect some students.

As Cruz opened fire with an AR-15 rifle, Coach Feis, according to students, jumped in front of the bullets . . .

“I know Aaron Personally. I coached with him. My two boys played for him. I don’t know when Aaron’s funeral is, I don’t know how many adults are gonna go, but you’ll get 2,000 kids there. The kids in this community loved him, they adored him. He was one of the greatest people I knew. He was a phenomenal man,” he said. “I don’t know the specifics yet, but I can tell you what, when Aaron Feis died — when he was killed tragically, inhumanely — he did it protecting others you can guarantee that, because that’s who Aaron Feis was.” (Read more from “Florida Coach Acted as a Human Shield to Save Students” HERE)

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The Reason a Third White House Official Failed to Qualify for Security Clearance

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A top official in the Trump administration resigned this week after being told by the White House that he would not receive a permanent security clearance after he admitted to prior drug use.

George David Banks, who served as special assistant to the president for international energy and environmental policy, resigned from his position on Tuesday after admitting to smoking marijuana in 2013. Politico reports:

A former CIA analyst who also previously worked at the State Department and the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Banks emerged last year as the administration’s lead policy expert on the Paris climate change agreement, and he played a key behind-the-scenes role in the months-long internal debate over whether to remain in the pact.

A former Obama administration official who worked on personnel and vetting issues said the Obama White House usually only denied clearances when there was both past drug use and a lack of full disclosure.

Banks was among the nearly three dozen other White House officials operating on an interim security clearance while the administration evaluated the status of their permanent security clearance application. (Read more from “The Reason a Third White House Official Failed to Qualify for Security Clearance” HERE)

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White House Security Process ‘Broken’

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The nation’s top intelligence officials and national security experts warned yesterday that the White House security clearance process — which allowed a former aide accused of domestic assault to handle classified information — is “broken” and poses a national security threat.

“The process is broken,” Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats told lawmakers at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing yesterday. “It needs to be reformed.”

The warnings came as FBI Director Christopher Wray testified under oath that the White House was given a security assessment of former White House aide Rob Porter nearly a year ago, and again in July and November — contradicting claims by White House officials that they were unaware of abuse allegations by Porter’s ex-wives until last week.

Coats went on to say that in the case of White House officials with interim clearance — a category that reportedly includes dozens of White House staffers including senior aides and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner — “access has to be limited in terms of the kind of information they can be in a position to receive or not receive.” (Read more from “White House Security Process ‘Broken'” HERE)

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CPAC Bans ‘Pro-Family’ Tone Towards Homosexuals

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The highly influential Conservative Political Action Conference, known as CPAC – which has featured presidential candidates and conservative leaders going back to Ronald Reagan – has barred a traditional-family advocacy group from sponsoring the upcoming conference and hosting an exhibit, because its “tone” toward culture-war adversaries “crosses a line.”

CPAC approved the application of Massachusetts-based MassResistance on Jan. 29 to have an exhibit at the event, which begins next Wednesday. But last week, Dan Schneider, the executive director of CPAC’s organizer, the American Conservative Union, told the group the decision had been reversed. Schneider cited a video that surfaced with remarks by MassResistance President Brian Camenker in a panel discussion at a conference in Salt Lake City in November 2015 called Stand4Truth.

One of the panelists, Michael Brown, a WND columnist, said defenders of traditional values should treat adversaries “respectfully,” “speaking the truth in love.” . . .

“I think there’s a place for being insulting and degrading, and I think I can back that up by Scripture,” the MassResistance founder said. “I think we have to look at this as a war, not as a church service.”

Moderator Sandy Rios – the American Family Association’s governmental affairs director, the president of the conservative political action group Culture Campaign, a Fox News Channel contributor and a talk radio host – agreed with Camenker, saying evangelicals “have gotten a little bit soft and not understood warfare.” (Read more from “CPAC Bans ‘Pro-Family’ Tone Towards Homosexuals” HERE)

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Illegal Alien Smashes into Ambulance, Killing 3-Year-Old… Where’s the Media?

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A drunk driving accident in North Carolina that took the life of a 3-year-old was caused by an illegal immigrant, multiple sources have learned.

Jose Duran Romero, 27, was driving drunk when his Honda Accord slammed into a Mercedes Lifecare ambulance, killing an unnamed 3-year-old boy and injuring the child’s mother and two paramedics.

Romero reportedly blew a 0.19 during a breathalyzer test administered roughly two hours after the crash, according to FOX8 Winston-Salem.

And while it is obvious that Romero shouldn’t have been behind the wheel of the vehicle after being heavily inebriated, there was something else he shouldn’t have been doing — living in the U.S.

The drunk driver is believed to be from El Salvador but had been living in the U.S. illegally at the time of the incident.

After the accident, EMS transported the child, his mother Lyndsay Ann Oakes, and the two paramedics in the ambulance to a local hospital. At 6:05 p.m. Monday the child was pronounced dead. FOX8 noted that the others are all expected to recover.

The ambulance involved in the incident was said to be carrying the young boy and his mother from Wise, Virginia, to Winston-Salem, but it is unknown as to why the ambulance was taking that route.

The crash occurred around 1 a.m. Sunday as Romero’s vehicle was traveling south on U.S. 52, the same road and direction that the ambulance was traveling on. The ambulance overturned as a result of the accident.

A police spokesperson revealed that Romero and a passenger, Andres Leon, fled the scene after the accident.

Romero, who was driving without a license, was charged with driving while intoxicated and driving without a license and was being held on $50,000 bond.

However, as noted by the Winston-Salem Journal, that bond was revoked and he is now being held in Forsyth County Jail as of Monday with no bond allowed.

Fox News reported that it is unknown if charges would be added or upgraded since the passing of the child.

The child’s grandfather, Gary Oakes spoke about the pain caused by his grandson’s death.

“It’s devastating,” Oakes stated.

This recent incident is just one of many in a long line of deaths caused by immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.

The Western Journal reported in January on Luis Enrique Monroy Bracamontes, an illegal immigrant who gunned down two Northern California deputies in 2014.

During his first day of trial in January, Bracamontes smiled, laughed and gloated about the killings. Bracamontes had been arrested and deported multiple times prior to the 2014 crime spree.

And in 2015, illegal immigrant Jose Ines Garcia Zarate fired a shot that fatally struck 32-year-old Kate Steinle, prompting a heated debate on sanctuary cities and the dangers presented with allowing illegal immigrants to live in the United States freely and absent of any repercussions. (For more from the author of “Illegal Alien Smashes into Ambulance, Killing 3-Year-Old… Where’s the Media?” please click HERE)

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Caught on Camera: Murder Suspect Sought for 10 Years

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A murder suspect who had been on the run for a decade was caught after his image was captured by a video camera and he was matched to the cold case in a computer database, reports Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

Officials reported that police in Buenos Aires, Argentina, caught the suspect after he was identified as a likely match by INTERPOL’s facial-recognition unit.

The international police agency reported Kristian Daney, 33, a Slovak national, was wanted by Czech authorities for a murder 10 years ago . . .

As part of an investigation by police in Argentina, the agency’s National Central Bureau in Buenos Aires submitted images of the suspect for comparison against records in a worldwide facial-recognition database. (Read more from “Caught on Camera: Murder Suspect Sought for 10 Years” HERE)

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U.S. High School Bans ‘Racist’ National Anthem

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Student leaders at a California high school have banned America’s “outdated and racially offensive” national anthem from being played at school rallies.

The Associated Student Body at California High School in San Ramon, in the San Francisco Bay Area, blacklisted “The Star-Spangled Banner” over a third verse that is rarely ever played.

“It was brought to our attention that the national anthem’s third verse is outdated and racially offensive,” wrote Ariyana Kermanizadeh in an open letter. “We had nothing but good intentions by removing the song so that we could be fully inclusive to our student body.”

The verse in questions includes the line “No refuge could save the hireling and slave / From the terror of the flight or the gloom of the grave.”

Kermanizadeh wrote: “This verse translated, finds joy in the killing of African-Americans. To think that our nation’s anthem once had the word slave and ‘land of the free’ in the same sentence leaves me speechless.” (Read more from “U.S. High School Bans ‘Racist’ National Anthem” HERE)

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Here’s What the Powder-Filled Letter Sent to Donald Trump Jr. Said

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By NBC News. An envelope with suspicious powder sent to one of President Donald Trump’s sons also included a threatening note, senior law enforcement officials told NBC News.

“You are an awful, awful person. I am surprised that your father lets you speak on TV,” the note to Donald Trump Jr. said, according to the officials.

It also said: “You the family idiot. Eric looks smart. This is the reason why people hate you. You are getting what you deserve. So shut the f*** up.” . . .

New York police said the white powder in the envelope was deemed to be nonhazardous and was taken to a lab for more testing. It appeared to contain corn starch, senior law enforcement officials said. (Read more from “Here’s What the Powder-Filled Letter Sent to Donald Trump Jr. Said” HERE)

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Here’s What Was Reportedly Written on the Letter Containing White Powder Sent to Donald Trump Jr.

By New York Post. The letter to Donald Trump Jr. that contained a suspicious white powder and landed his wife in the hospital said, “You are getting what you deserve,’’ according to law-enforcement sources . . .

The note, in an envelope postmarked in Boston, was delivered to the Upper East Side home of Donald Jr.’s mother-in-law at around 10 a.m. Monday, officials said . . .

The letter was not sent directly to the couple’s own Manhattan address, because it was more likely to get through security, according to the sources.

“This is not a secure site,’’ a source had said of the Sutton Place home of Vanessa’s mom, Bonnie Haydon. (Read more from “Here’s What Was Reportedly Written on the Letter Containing White Powder Sent to Donald Trump Jr.” HERE)

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