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Thoughts and Prayers for the NRA’s $57 Million Drop in Revenue

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By Walter Einenkel / Daily Kos

A couple of weeks ago it was reported that the NRA was hurting so badly that their Fairfax, Virginia headquarters had cut out free coffee and water to their employees. Of course, we all sent out thoughts and prayers their way. According to Politico, their revenue dropped by about $57 million this past year.

The gun-rights group posted an even steeper drop in membership dues, which fell 22 percent, or $35 million, to a five-year low, according to documents the NRA filed with the Internal Revenue Service this month.   [Read more…]

Hey NRA, This Is Our Lane: Furious Docs Explain They’re Not Anti-Gun But Anti-Bullet Hole

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Last week, hours before the slaughter of 12 people at a country music bar in Thousand Oaks, CA., our 307th mass shooting this year, the ever-judicious NRA denounced doctors and other health care professionals – those steadfast, often blood-soaked heroes who daily labor to pick up the shattered pieces from NRA-funded carnage universally deemed a public health crisis, who for years “have seen and heard things that cannot be unseen and unheard” – for daring to seek to reduce gun violence.

Citing a recent paper on the epidemic from the American College of Physicians titled, “Reducing Firearm Injuries and Death in the United States,” the ghouls at the NRA sneered, “Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane.”   [Read more…]

A Fish Rots From the Head: Four Local Leaders and Their Unconvincing Fight Against Gun Violence

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By Wendy Wheatcroft / San Diegans for Gun Violence Prevention

Last Monday I attended the beautiful community vigil at Congregation Beth Israel along with several of my co-volunteers in San Diegans for Gun Violence Prevention (SD4GVP). The hateful slaughter of 11 Jews at Congregation Tree of Life in Pittsburgh a couple of days earlier was absolutely horrific, and we’re dedicated to eliminating this scourge from American life. There’s nothing more heartbreaking than having to attend vigils for murdered Americans, but it’s part of what we do.

You know what hurts too? Sitting at a vigil for innocent people slain by hate-filled gun violence and seeing four local leaders being given a role of prominence when their roles in combating gun violence are anything but prominent.   [Read more…]

Gun Violence: ‘I Gotta Do Something. Anything.’

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By John White / San Diegans For Gun Violence Prevention

How many times have you told yourself that?

Did you tell yourself that after Sandy Hook, when gun violence took the lives of 20 children and six adults?

Or after Las Vegas, when a man with guns left 58 people dead and 851 injured?

Or after Parkland, when 14 high school students and three adults died because of guns in the hands of somebody who shouldn’t have had them?

Or after Tree of Life in Pittsburgh last week, when gun violence combined with anti-Semitism to kill 11 and injure six in a rampage described as one of the deadliest against the Jewish community in U.S. history?

When you’re finally able to put down the remote control and step away from social media for a minute, that sentence is still nagging you, isn’t it?   [Read more…]

The ‘March for Our Lives’ Parkland Students Collaborate with Artists Sage, Kesha and Chika to Create a Powerful Video on the Issue of Gun Violence | Video Worth Watching

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The March for Our Lives group has collaborated with artist Sage to create a video that is a sort of mashup of Groundhog Day and a Rube Goldberg device. From the SAGE YouTube web page:

“Safe” is the debut single from the artist Sage. Sage wrote the song while in his senior year of high school after the tragic mass shooting in a high school in Parkland, Florida. He played the first version of the song for his older sister, the music artist Kesha, who instantly felt the power of the track and wanted to help the cause by lending her voice to the song and movement. Chika, independent female rapper known for her vicious flow and fearless lyrics, contributed verses to finish the song.

More at the March for Our Lives website. [h/t to AGD]   [Read more…]

Parkland Survivors Talk Gun Safety in San Diego

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“What if” we cut gun deaths in half by 2025?

By Mary S. Johnson / San Diegans For Gun Violence Prevention

What if we could create a bipartisan coalition to prevent another mass shooting in the United States?

Four student survivors of the Parkland, Florida shooting climbed onto buses, boarded airplanes, and juggled study time after traveling to California to work on preventing another mass shooting from taking place in the United States. On September 20 they brought their urgent activism to San Diego.   [Read more…]

Walking the Talk – Parkland Students Take to the Road to Change the Nation’s Response to Gun Violence | Video Worth Watching

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The Parkland students who committed themselves to taking action to prevent gun violence in the U.S. organized a multi-city bus tour called “Road To Change”. It’s purpose was to encourage voter registration and turnout, with the hope that the newly empowered voters will turn out of office those officials who refuse to address the gun violence issue. The tour’s final stop was in Newtown, Connecticut, the site of the Sandy Hook elementary school attack nearly six years ago. Activists David Hogg and Bria Smith reflect on the tour and about what’s next.   [Read more…]

Turning Kindergartners into Kinderguardians – Meet Puppy Pistol & Uzicorn | Video Worth Watching

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Sacha Baron Cohen strikes again! As Colonel Erran Morad, anti-terror expert, he conscripts allies in his quest to arm kindergartners and turn them into kinderguardians! His willing accomplices include Philip Van Cleave (Bushmasters are a blast to shoot with), lobbyist Larry Pratt (anti-gun people have blood on their hands), and legislators Matt Gaetz, Joe Walsh, Trent Lott, Dana Rorabacher, and Joe Wilson. One of my favorite segments is Larry Pratt explaining the proven science behind the program, including the claim that “children under five have elevated levels of the pheromone blink-182 produced by the part of the liver known as the rita-ora”. Laughable, pathetic and infuriating, all at once.   [Read more…]

Annapolis Newsroom Massacre: “Toxic Masculinity” Mixed With Guns. Again

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By John Queally / Common Dreams

As the nation mourned yet another senseless mass shooting—this time at a local newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland on Thursday in which five people were murdered—details of the alleged gunman expose yet another perpetrator with a history of misogynistic and threatening behavior towards women.

On Friday it was reported that the man arrested by police at the scene of the massacre inside The Capital Gazette’s offices, Jarrod Warren Ramos—who had a “bitter history” with the newspaper going back years—had been charged by local prosecutors with five counts of first-degree murder.   [Read more…]

A National March on the NRA Headquarters? Approach With Caution

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If you are an activist receiving emails from an outfit calling itself “National March on the NRA,” be forewarned. It’s not being organized by the young people from Parkland or any of the other groups you might have heard of leading the fight for Second Amendment sanity

The “Voter Reg Street Party” on July 20 and the “March” in Fairfax (where the NRA is headquartered) the following day both have “TBA” locations. This thing is a production of “The Presidential House,” which is, in turn, a creation of Lawrence Deshawn Silva Nathaniel.

Remember him? He’s the guy who organized the Rally at the Border,’scheduled for Saturday, March 25, 2017, in San Ysidro. It never happened.   [Read more…]

A Mother’s Day Card for the NRA’s Dana Loesch | Video Worth Watching – Mother’s Day Edition

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A special Mother’s Day card for the NRA’s Dana Loesch from Jeff Kasky, parent of Cameron Kasky, a survivor of the February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.   [Read more…]

Parkland Shooting Survivor David Hogg Says Follow the Money

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By Abby Zimet / Common Dreams

The woke kids are still at it. Days before a planned National School Walkout to mark the anniversary of the Columbine shootings, Parkland survivor and firebrand David Hogg has suggested a boycott of massive money managers BlackRock and Vanguard, the biggest owners of publicly traded gun makers Sturm Ruger and American Outdoor Brands, parent company of Smith & Wesson Corp.

Citing the scale of the two asset managers’ holdings – according to Bloomberg, their wealth exceeds current U.S. GDP,  approaching $20 trillion – Hogg noted their ownership of gun stocks, suggested to shareholders who oppose blood-soaked investments that, “If you use them, feel free to let them know,” and added the hashtags #BoycottVanguard and #BoycottBlackrock.   [Read more…]

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