Universities Oppose Free Speech: A Collection of Articles

Three stories in one day, regarding universities and their lack of respect for free speech on campus.  These places need to lose all public funding. 

U. of Tennessee Chattanooga Tells Turning Point USA It Needs ‘Reservation’ for Free Speech

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga student and Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter president Kyler Kayanek told Breitbart News that while attempting to recruit TPUSA members on campus, school officials approached his group and told them that they were not allowed to exercise their First Amendment rights in the public square of the university. Kayanek spoke to SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily host Alex Marlow in a Wednesday interview for the show’s TPUSA campus report.

“We hadn’t even been set up five minutes and a police officer came with an administrator, said Kayanek. “We had a sign out that had a few guns on it as we are supporters of the Second Amendment, and the first thing they asked us was if we were armed.”
The student added that the two had left shortly after that, but that “not even 45 minutes later, another administrator came, and he just said we were gonna have to leave.”

“He said it was against university policy for us to be there, because we didn’t make a reservation,” added Kayanek.
The student continued:

As the president of Turning Point USA, I’ve read over the student handbook, and it specifically says we have the right to peacefully assemble, but apparantly if that goes against the university policy of reserving a space on a public campus, then it’s in violation.

“This is a public university, you’re not on private property, you’re not trespassing, you’re a student of the university,” noted Marlow. “This is an infringement on free speech. This is also an infringement on free assembly from my vantage point.”
“Apparently everyone has the right to freely assemble unless it’s against university policy,” said Kayanek. “They let us move to a different area of campus — but you know, we couldn’t be there right at the center of campus.”
Universities are known to have “free speech zones,” which refers to when university administrators designate a specific area on a college campus for one to exercise their First Amendment rights, which in turn, seems to imply the false narrative that public property in the United States of America is not in itself a “free speech zone.”
“We’re gonna try to fight this, we’re gonna try to assemble more, and we’re gonna try to gather as many people as we can on campus to help fight this very biased and one-sided opinion,” Kayanek affirmed.
“I’m hoping to really grow the club and try to be very proactive on campus,” the student added of his future plans with TPUSA on campus. “We’re hoping to have an NRA event on campus. We’re hoping to bring speakers. We’re hoping to really open up dialogue.”

Northwestern U. Student Government Refuses to Adopt Free Speech Bill

The student government at Northwestern University rejected a bill that would have reaffirmed campus speech protections. The bill was written in response to an event on campus featuring former Attorney General Jeff Sessions that was derailed by student protesters.

According to a report by the College Fix, the student government at Northwestern University is pushing back against those want want to defend free speech on campus.
Northwestern student Zach Kessel brought the resolution before the student government in the hopes it would serve as a reminder of the important role that free and open inquiry plays in higher education. However, he was surprised when student senators began criticizing the resolutions. Ultimately, the senators decided to “table” the resolution, meaning that they would not put it up for a vote.

Kessel said he doesn’t know which senators voted to table the resolution. “[P]retty much everyone in the room had only negative things to say” – even those who voted against tabling – “so they all blended together in my mind,” he said. But he knows one of the senators who abstained, Max Emery, who has said that neither he nor other senators wanted to talk about the vote.

Breitbart News reported in November that editors of Northwestern University newspaper had apologized over their decision to cover the demonstrations against Sessions. The newspaper was mocked by the Northwestern community over its decision to apologize for reporting on the protests.
Breitbart News reported in December that Northwestern University had fined the students that disrupted the Sessions event. Several students were fined $125 for their role in the protest. Some protesters even pushed and kicked police officers as they were removed from the venue.

Northeastern U. Scientists Plan to Use Surveillance Tech to Catch ‘Implicit Bias’

Researchers at Northeastern University are currently working to develop an artificially intelligent listening device that would catch and report “implicit bias” in the workplace.

According to a blog post on the Northeastern University website, researchers at the university in Boston are working to build a smart listening device that would record “implicit bias” in the workplace.
The concept is chillingly Orwellian. Northeastern University, in the post, says that the device would be used to report workers don’t value the perspective of their female colleagues.
“But what if a smart device, similar to the Amazon Alexa, could tell when your boss inadvertently left a female colleague out of an important decision, or made her feel that her perspective wasn’t valued?” the post reads.
Northeastern Professor Christopher Riedl, who is working on the project, says that the device to ensure “inclusion” in the workplace.

“The vision that we have [for this project] is that you would have a device, maybe something like Amazon Alexa, that sits on the table and observes the human team members while they are working on a problem, and supports them in various ways,” Riedl said. “One of the ways in which we think we can support that team is by ensuring equal inclusion of all team members.”

“You could imagine [a scenario] where maybe a manager at the end of a group deliberation gets a report that says person A was really dominating the conversation,” another professor, Brooke Foucault Welles, said.

Breitbart News has reported extensively on the popularity of “implicit bias” testing in academia. Breitbart News reported in January that Harvard University had embraced the debunked “implicit bias” test, an online quiz hosted on the Harvard website that purports to determine the level of a participant’s racism.

Stay tuned to Breitbart News for more updates on this story.

Not a one of these schools has any respect for the rights and freedoms of their students.  These aren't the only such cases, either.  Please, post links to others you've found, so people can see which schools to avoid.  I know none of these will see any money from me.  I'd never send one of my kids to such a place. 

We need to start demanding changes, and not allow these schools to receive tax dollars, when they violate the rights of their students.

Crazy Leftist Attacks after Senate Rejects WItnesses

Well, that didn't take long, did it?  Right as the Senate is winding down from rejecting any further witnesses in this sham of an impeachment, a whack-a-loon Leftist tried to force her way into President Trump's Mar-a-Lago.  Secret Service members opened fire after she forced her way, along with another female passenger, through two checkpoints.  Both women have apparently been arrested.

Secret Service Opens Fire as Woman Allegedly Breaches Mar-a-Lago Security

The Secret Service opened fire Friday morning as a 30-year-old woman allegedly breached security with a vehicle at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago and refused to stop.

Breitbart News reported that the security breach occurred around 11:40 a.m., and officers opened fire.
7 News reports that Secret Service fired their guns, too, and that the culprit was allegedly a Connecticut woman named Hannah Roehmild.
NBC Connecticut reports that Roehmild allegedly crashed through two security checkpoints, and it was after the second checkpoint that officers and agents began to shoot.
Palm Beach County Sheriff Rick Bradshaw intimated that shots had to be fired “since she’d breached two checkpoints, and it was unknown due to her erratic driving how many lives she was going to put in danger or whether she was trying to hit pedestrians.”
Bradshaw said, “[The checkpoints she crashed through] are located on public roadways and are part of secret service’s outer perimeter. They are not located on the Mar-A-Lago property.”

So, who is this woman?  No surprise; she's a radical Leftist:

There was one other person in the vehicle with her, and at least one article states that there could be another suspect as well:

Hannah Roemhild: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Hannah Roemhild is the woman accused of breaching checkpoints at Mar-a-Lago.
Hannah Roemhild was named by authorities as the woman accused of breaching security checkpoints at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
The woman driving a black SUV breached two security checkpoints at Mar-a-Lago, leading to shots being fired at President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach property, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Department.
The incident location was given by authorities as “Mar-a-Lago main entrance.” In the media advisory, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Department reported that the Florida Highway Patrol was “in pursuit of a black SUV.”
Here’s what you need to know:

1. Authorities Say Roemhild Was Driving a Rental Vehicle

The driver was a woman who was driving erratically, authorities said. “We didn’t know if it was someone with a car bomb or someone who was going to hit as many pedestrians as possible,” said authorities in a news conference. At that point, authorities opened fire. It was a rental vehicle.

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2. Roemhild, Whose Motive Is Not Yet Clear, Was Arrested at a Local Motel

The woman was ultimately confronted and arrested at a local motel. The FBI, sheriff’s department and Secret Service are all investigating, and they haven’t yet interviewed the woman. There were two females in the vehicle. The first woman picked up the second.

3. Roemhild Is From Connecticut, Authorities Say

BREAKING: Authorities are investigating a shooting near Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, FL. The sheriff's office says an SUV breached security checkpoints heading towards the main entrance.
That's when officers reportedly fired at the vehicle.
Two people are in custody.
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— CNN Newsource (@CNNNewsource) January 31, 2020

Hannah Roemhild is 30 years old. “She doesn’t have a past that we can discern right now,” authorities said. She has a Connecticut driver’s license.
The black SUV “was headed towards two security check points at Mar-A-Lago, in the Town of Palm Beach,” the media advistory said.

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Hannah Roemhild is the woman accused of breaching checkpoints at Mar-a-Lago.

Hannah Roemhild was named by authorities as the woman accused of breaching security checkpoints at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
The woman driving a black SUV breached two security checkpoints at Mar-a-Lago, leading to shots being fired at President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach property, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Department.
The incident location was given by authorities as “Mar-a-Lago main entrance.” In the media advisory, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Department reported that the Florida Highway Patrol was “in pursuit of a black SUV.”
Here’s what you need to know:

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1. Authorities Say Roemhild Was Driving a Rental Vehicle

The driver was a woman who was driving erratically, authorities said. “We didn’t know if it was someone with a car bomb or someone who was going to hit as many pedestrians as possible,” said authorities in a news conference. At that point, authorities opened fire. It was a rental vehicle.

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2. Roemhild, Whose Motive Is Not Yet Clear, Was Arrested at a Local Motel

The woman was ultimately confronted and arrested at a local motel. The FBI, sheriff’s department and Secret Service are all investigating, and they haven’t yet interviewed the woman. There were two females in the vehicle. The first woman picked up the second.

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3. Roemhild Is From Connecticut, Authorities Say

Hannah Roemhild is 30 years old. “She doesn’t have a past that we can discern right now,” authorities said. She has a Connecticut driver’s license.
The black SUV “was headed towards two security check points at Mar-A-Lago, in the Town of Palm Beach,” the media advistory said.

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4. The SUV Breached Two Security Checkpoints at Mar-a-Lago & Headed for the Main Entrance

The SUV “breached both security checkpoints heading toward the main entrance.” Officers “discharged their firearms at the vehicle. The vehicle fled while being pursued by FHP and PBSO helicopter. The vehicle has now been located and two individuals are currently in custody,” the sheriff’s statement said. FDLE (Florida Department of Law Enforcement) is investigating.
FBI agents were responding to the scene.

5. President Trump Wasn’t There at the Time But Is Due Friday Night

Trump is coming to Mar-a-Lago for a Sunday Super Bowl Party and a Saturday gala featuring Roseanne Barr hosted by his fan club, the Trumpettes, according to USA Today.
WSVN-7 News reported earlier that Palm Beach Sheriff’s office sources told the station there was an incident at Mar-a Lago in Palm Beach on January 31, 2020. Trump is not present, but he’s due to arrive at Mar-a-Lago later Friday, according to WTSP-TV.
“Someone ran the northern checkpoint near the property and then deputies fired at this person,” the journalist said on the air. “Secret service officials may have fired at this person as well…this person who sources believe is a woman was still able to get away. Officials are saying this person ran from the scene and is still out there.”
WTSP-TV reported that a heavy law enforcement presence had descended on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
According to USA Today, about 10 law enforcement officers from multiple agencies were seen near Mar-a-Lago and some had vests with the words “homicide” on them.
Video from the scene showed the law enforcement presence.
This post is being updated as more is learned about the possible Mar-a-Lago gate crashing and shots fired incident. The woman’s name and motive are not known. The incident came as impeachment hearings wind down in the U.S. Senate.
As for Mar-a-Lago’s history, My Palm Beach Post reports that “Marjorie Merriweather Post’s immense Mar-a-Lago opened for the 1927 winter season, crowning 17 ocean-to-lake acres where South Ocean Boulevard meets Southern Boulevard. Today, it’s the last of Palm Beach’s most majestic Jazz Age estates to remain intact, thanks to its two strong-willed owners, Post and Donald Trump.”

These people are unhinged.  They can't accept that our president was duly elected, can't deal with the fact that he's keeping promises, and making the county better, with record unemployment, a booming economy, better relations with other countries, improved trade deals that actually benefit the United States, and so forth.  So, they push a fake impeachment, when he's committed no impeachable offenses, and now that that's failing, we see reactions like this.  I wish I could say I was surprised, but this is expected behavior from people who act like spoiled children, and have no impulse control and no moral standards. 

My Dad Was Right.

He always said, most people in the world are stupid, like 99% of them.  I used to think he was exaggerating.  Not anymore.  Case in point:

Amazon’s Alexa Devices Are Recording Your Life – and People Keep Buying Them

The MIT Technology Review reported in 2018 that Amazon Alexa home assistant devices may actually be listening in on people’s daily lives even when not given commands. Despite such warnings, the e-commerce giant sold out of Alexa-powered devices before Christmas as their popularity continues to grow unabated.

The MIT Technology Review reported in an article titled “Yes, Alexa is recording mundane details of your life, and it’s creepy as hell,” that Amazon Alexa home assistant devices are listening in on people’s conversations, a theory that has been around for some time but has never been confirmed.
The MIT Technology Review reports:

Beyond all the things I’ve clearly asked Alexa to do, in the past several months it has also tuned in, frequently several times a day, for no obvious reason. It’s heard me complain to my dad about something work-related, chide my toddler about eating dinner, and talk to my husband—the kinds of normal, everyday things you say at home when you think no one else is listening.
And that’s precisely why it’s terrifying: this sort of mundane chitchat is my mundane chitchat. I invited Alexa into our living room to make it easier to listen to Pandora and occasionally check the weather, not to keep a log of intimate family details or record my kid saying “Mommy, we going car” and forward it to Amazon’s cloud storage.

The MIT Technology Review notes that constant recording is one of the unfortunate downsides of home assistants that constantly listen for wake words such as “Alexa!” or “Hey, Siri!”
Through 2019, Amazon faced continual bad news about its Alexa-powered devices on the subject of user privacy and security. Reports were published showing that Amazon employees and contractors located in India, Costa Rica, and Romania had ready access to users’ recordings and spent nine hours a day listening to the snippets.

The work is mostly mundane. One worker in Boston said he mined accumulated voice data for specific utterances such as “Taylor Swift” and annotated them to indicate the searcher meant the musical artist. Occasionally the listeners pick up things Echo owners likely would rather stay private: a woman singing badly off key in the shower, say, or a child screaming for help. The teams use internal chat rooms to share files when they need help parsing a muddled word—or come across an amusing recording.

This revelation led to a lawsuit against Amazon which claimed that Jeff Bezos’ Big Tech giant was breaking the law by recording children without their parent’s consent.
In another threat to security, researchers in Tokyo documented that Amazon’s voice assistant hardware could be hacked with a $5 laser pointer.
Despite the negativity about Amazon’s devices recording users when they don’t expect it, sales of Alexa-powered devices have continued to rise. Early in 2019, Amazon announced that it had sold 100 million Alexa devices.  Sales haven’t slowed down since then. Although the company has not released Christmas sales figures, for the third quarter of 2019, it sold more than 10 million devices and enjoys a 36 percent share of the market. It’s next closest competitor, the Chinese company Alibaba, has a 13 percent market share.

Breitbart News has previously published a guide explaining how to stop Amazon employees from having access to Alexa recordings, however, this does not stop the device from recording users’ daily interactions but rather protects them from being listened to by Amazon employees directly. Read the full guide here.

People know they are being spied pon by these devices, and they buy them anyway?  Why?  What, there is no way to access weather reports without one, or listen to music?  No way to look something up?  How lazy are these people?  Seriously, who gives some big company access to every conversation in their home, in exchange for a little aid in simple tasks?  How utterly stupid does a person have to be?  This is a device made to listen, and listen it does, all the time.  It's not "off", when not directly in use, because if it was, it couldn't hear you use the key word to start your using it.  Voice activation demands some monitoring.  Do people really not get this? 

My dad was right.  I'm even starting to think he downplayed the number a little.

A Shooting the Media Would Prefer to Ignore

So, who heard about a shooter in Kansas City a few days ago?  I didn't till I read about it in an email.  Two dead, at least fifteen injured, and yt we aren't hearing a lot of the usual flak.  Want to know why?  It all centers on the shooter not fitting the profile the media wants us to believe is relevant to "all" shooters.  Their narrative is a lie, and this is just another case that proves they are lying.  Here's the initial story:

1 dead, 15 injured in Kansas City bar shooting

Kansas City, Missouri — One person is dead and 15 wounded after a shooting outside a bar late Sunday night. The suspect was killed by an armed private security guard at the venue, authorities said. The violence put an abrupt end to a celebration of the Kansas City Chiefs victory that sent them to the Super Bowl.
Police at the scene said the shooter opened fire at a line of people waiting to get inside. The bodies of a man and woman were found in the parking lot when police arrived, CBS affiliate KCTV reported. Kansas City police Chief Richard Smith said only the shooter and the security guard fired weapons.
Smith identified the bodies Monday as 29-year-old Jahron Swift, who is the suspected shooter, and 25-year-old Raeven Parks. Police said all the wounded were brought to area hospitals and at least three were in critical condition.

Few details, no photo.  No mention of where he got a gun, and if he was able to legally own one.

Next we have a few more details:

2 dead, including gunman, 15 injured in Kansas City shooting

A 25-year-old woman was killed and 15 people were injured outside a Kansas City, Missouri, nightclub on Sunday night when a gunman let loose a barrage of shots before he was gunned down by a security guard, authorities said on Monday.
The shooting happened outside the 9ine Ultra Lounge, where several hundred people had gathered, many celebrating the Kansas City Chiefs' American Football Conference championship and a birth to the team's first Super Bowl in 50 years, said Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas.
"We're here today because something happened last night that marred what was an exciting night, a euphoric night for the people of Kansas City," Lucas said at a news conference Monday afternoon. "First of all, this city will never stand for this type of gun violence. We will continue to try to stop it before it starts and we'll make sure that with any investigation we're bringing folks to justice."

He conceded the shooting mirrors "a problem in Kansas City."
"We've said a few times that it is an epidemic of gun violence. We're losing too many lives. We have too many people shot each year," the mayor said.
Kansas City Police Chief Richard Smith said his department was already on high alert when the shooting broke out with extra police assigned to overtime shifts in anticipation of Sunday's NFL game and the spontaneous celebrations that broke out afterward across the city. The Chiefs clinched a spot in the Super Bowl for the first time since 1970.
He said police officers had checked the parking lot outside the 9ine Ultra Lounge in the southeastern part of the city less than a minute before the shooting started at 11:27 p.m.

Our greatest challenges remain even this morning in our community. My thoughts are with the families and friends of those whose lives were lost or impacted by last night’s mass shooting. Thankful security appears to have kept the situation from being even worse. https://t.co/vF4C2W4dCl

— Mayor Q (@QuintonLucasKC) January 20, 2020

"This club had come up previously. We knew it was an issue at some other points of time in the past," Smith said, noting that a drive-by shooting occurred outside the club last week. "Officers had done a check of the parking lot and were less than a minute out when we received our first call. So we had just been there."
When officers returned to the club, they encountered a chaotic scene.
"We had hundreds of people fleeing both in cars and on foot," Smith said.
The alleged gunman, Jahron Swift, 29, of Kansas City, apparently had gotten into a confrontation inside the club and once outside, began shooting people who were in a line waiting to get in, Smith said.

Smith identified the victim killed in the shooting as 25-year-old Raven Parks.
"The security guard is the one who engaged the suspect," said Smith, who did not release the name of the security guard.

He said the security guard heard the gunshots and went outside and confronted the gunman, fatally shooting him.
"It appears he saved lives," Smith said.
Smith said it remains unclear how many of the 15 injured people treated at hospitals suffered gunshot wounds.
No shots were fired by any of the 50 officers who responded to the scene.

He said most of the people injured in the incident were taken to area hospitals in private cars. Officials said three of those injured were initially in critical condition.
According to police, a line had formed to get into the bar when the suspect started shooting into the line of people.
Smith said the motive for the shooting remains under investigation.
He said police have found no evidence that the shooting was gang related.

Lucas said the city's Regulated Industries Division will begin investigating the club on Tuesday to determine if the business has become a public nuisance. Depending on the investigation, he said the club owner could face a fine or be forced to close.
The mayor said the club owner is cooperating with police.
"It's incredibly, incredibly frustrating," Lucas said of overall shootings in the city. "Last night, was a night people have been dreaming of for 50 years. We don't need to keep having disappointments like this."

Note, the police did NOT stop this guy.

Now, who is this shooter?  Some angry white Trump supporter, as we are told is the case usually?  Nope!  That's not the norm, and it's not the case here, either.  Here is the guy:

Jahron Swift: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Jahron Swift was identified by authorities as the gunman in a mass shooting that left at least 16 people wounded, 1 fatally, at a Kansas City nightclub a couple hours after the Kansas City Chiefs won a spot in the Super Bowl.
The shooter also died at the scene. The shooting occurred outside at 9ine Ultra Lounge bar about 11:30 p.m. on January 19, 2020 in the 4800 block of Noland Road. You can see videos from the scene below but be aware that the language is graphic. It is not yet clear whether all of the wounded suffered gunshot injuries. The bar was hosting a Chiefs’ party.
It emerged that prosecutors dismissed a previous weapons charge against Swift because of a change in state gun laws.
Kansas City.com reported that the shooter “started firing into a line of people waiting to get inside” the club. The motive remains unclear. Jahron Swift was 29 years old and a resident of Kansas City.
Quinton Lucas, the mayor, wrote on Twitter, “Our greatest challenges remain even this morning in our community. My thoughts are with the families and friends of those whose lives were lost or impacted by last night’s mass shooting. Thankful security appears to have kept the situation from being even worse.”
The female victim is 25 year old Raven Parks.
Here’s what you need to know:

1. An Armed Security Guard ‘Engaged’ the Shooter, Police Say
In a news conference, Kansas City Police Chief Richard Smith said the first call came in at 11:27 p.m.

“This club had come up previously. We knew it was an issue at other points in time in the past. Officers had done a check of the parking lot and were less than a minute out when we got our first call,” he said.

He confirmed that there were 15 injured but police were still looking into the extent of those injuries, including how many were from gunfire.

“No one fired a weapon other than the security guard and suspect. Police officers fired no shots at the scene,” Smith said. He said the shooting ignited after a “disturbance in the club…in the line waiting to get in. This incident unraveled shortly after that disturbance.” Police don’t know what caused the disturbance. The chief said he was aware of social media reports that people were cutting in line but said they haven’t confirmed that.

The guard was inside the club and “heard commotion. He went outside and that’s when he confronted the suspect,” the police chief said. Asked whether the shooting was random, the chief said he wasn’t sure.

On January 19th, at about 11:30 p.m., “officers were dispatched to the 4800 block of Noland rd. on a shooting,” police wrote in an earlier statement. “Upon arrival officers located one deceased adult female and one deceased adult male.”

Police continued, “As the investigation unfolded at least 15 other victims arrived at area hospitals. At this time 3 of those victims are listed in critical condition. An armed security guard at the business engaged the shooter outside of the establishment.”

They added: “We believe the shooter is the deceased adult male. The circumstances that lead to this shooting are unknown. Detectives and crime scene investigators will be collecting evidence and talking with witnesses to gather more information to see what lead to this shooting…The next anticipated information release will most likely be the ID of deceased victims once the next of kin have been notified.”

Police later identified the suspect as Jahron Swift in a news conference, which you can watch in full above. The security guard at the scene was “private security,” according to police.

2. Swift Had a Criminal History That Included a Weapons Offense & Video Emerged From the Scene
Swift had a previous criminal history. According to Missouri state court records, he was accused of unlawful use of a weapon and possession of a controlled substance (marijuana) in 2017. He received three years probation and a suspended sentence for that charge.

In 2016, he received another charge for unlawful use of a weapon. However, according to Kansas City.com, prosecutors had no choice but to dismiss those charges because “Missouri legislators approved measures that permitted concealed weapons to be carried without a permit.”

There are also some civil cases and a paternity action against him. A court ordered him to pay child support.

Video captured gunfire and what appears to be people pursuing the gunman. Be aware that there is bad language in it.

Another video shows a man running while carrying what appears to be a wounded woman in his arms. “Are you hit?” a man says in one of the videos.

Another video, which Heavy.com has reviewed but is choosing not to run, shows the body of what appears to be the shooter in a parking lot.

The mayor declared himself “incredibly frustrated.”

“Last night was a night that a lot of people have been dreaming of in Kansas City … and why we won’t necessarily say that folks aren’t still happy. This is very disappointing for us. It’s heartbreaking for a number of things.”

He added, “There’s too much of this in Kansas City… I grew up in the inner city. Everybody’s tired of this.. let’s put a stop to this.”

3. People Expressed Shock on Facebook, With One Woman Calling it the ‘Scariest Moment of My Life’
People expressed shock on Facebook who were at the scene. “This was the scariest moment of my life. I will never unsee all of the lifeless bodies just laying there when we exited the club. 🤦🏽‍♀️ prayers the the victims families and friends, 🙏🏽” one woman wrote.

“I just seen a chick get shot in the head outside the door of the club. I’m sick,” wrote another man.

“It’s 2 dead bodies in the parking lot,” wrote another.

4. The Club Posted Earlier This Month That It Was Working to ‘Prevent Anyone’s Safety From Being Compromised’ But Police Say There Was a Drive-by Shooting in the Parking Lot Recently
On Facebook, the Lounge describes itself as, “Bringing fresh air to the Nightlife with great experiences and an even better VIP experience!” It adds, “Our mission is to bring a out of town experience to Kansas City Night Life.”

The night of the shooting, the lounge posted, “SECTIONS ARE SOLD OUT‼️‼️‼️ Early Arrival is Suggested 🥴🥴🥴🥴” The poster for Sunday night highlighted the Chiefs playoffs game and the sounds of DJ Rocky Montana.

The club’s Facebook page indicates it’s been holding similar events each Sunday night.

On January 4, 2020, the club posted that it was aware of “allegations,” but it didn’t elaborate.

“The club is aware of the allegations and concerns that have transpired during the recent days. We have deep sympathy for those that have been impacted, or feel as though they may have been victimized in any way. While it is not practical for our establishment to be liable for the hundreds of individuals that patronize our business, we are working countless hours strategizing, and formulating remedies to prevent anyones safety from being compromised,” the post says.

“We will work diligently to get to the bottom of any incident that occurs on our premises, because we genuinely care about our customers and it is the right thing to do. However, we do want to assure the community that the circulating story does not comply with the morals and principles of the 9ine’s ownership, management, and staff. Thank you in advance for your patience as we further investigate this matter.”

There’s no indicate that post bore any relationship to the mass shooting, however.

Chief Smith said in the news conference that there was a drive-by shooting in the lot of the club about a week ago, and police have received reports of other people indicating there were incidents stemming from the club.

The mayor said that the regulated industries’ director will “look at this club. Will consider whether it is a nuisance. Whether it meets those standards.”

5. A Witness Said Fights Preceded the Shooting But Police Said the Suspect Wasn’t on Their ‘Radar’
The chief said in a news conference that Swift was not “on our radar in particular, no.”

As for the security guard, he said, “It appears he saved lives. We know there were multiple firearms involved, so the security guard saved lives.”

A witness told KSHB-TV that fights preceded the shooting. She told the television station that a security guard fired a warning shot to stop a parking lot fight before the mass shooting occurred.

Chief Smith said well over 50 officers responded to the scene. “They did a great job last night. This was very chaotic. We had hundreds of people fleeing… it was a very intense scene to say the least,” Smith said.

So, this guy should have been in jail, from the sounds of things and wasn't.  Gun laws aren't the issue here; bad behavior is the issue here.  People cutting in line as an excuse to shoot?  Assuming that's what happened?   The problem is that some people think they can react with violence any time they aren't happy with a situation.  Someone says something they don't like, does something they don't like, looks at them, looks the "wrong way", isn't the right color, holds a different opinion, whatever; it's an excuse to act like an animal.  That's a problem with culture, not with guns.  I wonder what the authorities plan to do to address that?  Yeah, yeah, I know.

Americans Stand for Rights at Pro-Second Amendment Rally!!

Seems a lot of people did exactly what I aid they should do, in response to the Virginia governor trying to infringe on their rights.  I said this:

in this thread.

The guy restricted gun on one area, so I simply stated, rather than try to break the law, carry just outside that area, surround it if possible, legally carrying, and let the jerk deal.  Seems people had the same idea:

Virginia gun protesters kick off massive rally with crystal-clear message: 'We will not comply!'

Lawmakers better have been listening.

Tight security, frenzied media hype and bone-chilling temperatures couldn’t stop thousands of Second Amendment supporters Monday from turning out at Virginia’s Capitol building in Richmond to make their feelings known about gun-grabbing efforts to restrict rights guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution.

And after reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, the demonstrators made their message crystal clear: “We will not comply.”

Earlier posted video of Pledge of Allegiance. For those who’ve asked, here’s the video of “We will not comply,.” Taken seconds apart. pic.twitter.com/Egz4mqVhzo

— Gabe Gutierrez (@gabegutierrez) January 20, 2020

The rally was organized by the Virginia Citizens Defense League, a gun-rights group that holds annual pro-Second Amendment rallies on the Capitol grounds usually attended by a few hundred supporters, according to The Associated Press.

Monday’s event was different. With Democrats having won majorities in both houses of the state legislature in the 2019 elections and Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam in the executive office, gun rights are at serious risk in the Old Dominion.

On Jan. 13, as The Washington Post reported, the state Senate Judiciary Committee approved bills that "would require background checks on all firearms purchases, allow law enforcement to temporarily remove guns from individuals deemed a risk to themselves or others, let localities ban weapons from certain events and government buildings, and cap handgun purchases at one per month."

In response to the increasingly chilly atmosphere toward gun rights in the state capital, over 135 jurisdictions throughout the state have declared themselves "sanctuaries" for gun rights, according to the VCDL, setting up the kind of confrontation Monday's demonstration illustrated.

Northam was badly tarred by a pair of controversies that included his apparent advocacy for infanticide and a scandal over the surfacing of medical school yearbook pictures that linked him to a man in blackface and another in full-blown Ku Klux Klan regalia.

He managed to survive the scandals by going full-tilt Democrat, which was so successful The Washington Post ran a December editorial reversing itself and praising the governor after calling for his resignation a year ago.

But some at Monday's protest made clear they want Northam out.

"Hey-Hey, Ho-Ho, racist Ralph has got to go!"

Gun rights protesters are in Richmond for #LobbyDay2020.

📽️: @Julio_Rosas11 pic.twitter.com/oa0IWBd7vN

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) January 20, 2020

The demonstrators were making sure lawmakers knew they are being watched, too.

“The government doesn’t run us, we run the government,” 20-year-old Kem Regik told the AP.

He brought a white flag with a picture of a rifle and the slogan, “Come and take it,” the AP reported.

In anticipation of the rally, Northam issued an emergency order last week banning weapons in Virginia’s Capitol Square, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch – including firearms, bats and knives.

Many demonstrators found a simple way around that, though. They just didn’t enter the square.

Wow.

Thousands of peaceful demonstrators are at the Virginia Capitol for the #VirginiaRally today.

Many have decided to assemble outside the fence so that they can still carry. pic.twitter.com/9Aw54Lso7l

— Courtney Holland 🇺🇸 (@hollandcourtney) January 20, 2020

And as the demonstration got started, it appeared the Democrat/media hype about a huge confrontation was just that: hype.

Virginia gun-rights rally opens peacefully amid fears of extremist violence https://t.co/gzW2HXBKgq pic.twitter.com/aDShfcMYD0

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 20, 2020

No riots.
No violence.
No targeting of citizens.
No attacking cops.
Just Thousands upon thousands or peaceful, law-abiding citizens gathering in Virginia’s capitol to protest an unconstitutional assault on their rights.
Show me an Antifa rally like this:pic.twitter.com/5wUm8gL0Ey

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) January 20, 2020

Democrats like to claim that supporters of gun rights are some kind of fringe element in American politics, the way liberals like to claim Fox News viewers are a fringe element of the population.

Ratings consistently show they’re wrong about Fox News. Events like Monday’s rally in Richmond show they’re wrong about gun rights. There's nothing "fringe" about supporting the Constitution.

There’s no question Monday about the message demonstrators were delivering to their own government.

The only question was whether the lawmakers were listening.

This article appeared originally on  The Western Journal.

I really love this!  Americans standing for our rights, in spite of fascist attempts to take those rights from us!  Peaceful, effective, and a very clear message.  Glad so many had the same idea I did!  

Texas Church Shooting Heroes and Their Thoughts on Gun Control

Two cases, two shooters stopped, two brave men willing to do what was needed to save lives, and two cases that show very clearly the need for people to be able to be armed and ready to defend. The first case was on November 5, 2017, and many lives were lost, because no one was at the location to top the shooter. The man who did stop him did so as he was trying to get to another target, from what we are told. The second case was just lat month, December 29, 2019, and that shooter was stopped much faster, because that time there were armed people who could do something as soon as he began his attack. In both cases, armed citizens acted to stop these attackers, who would surely have done a lot more harm had those men not been prepared and armed and able to defend their communities. Here are the articles, with the thoughts and opinions of these two heroes:

TX Church Hero: None of Government’s Business What Kind of Gun I Use

Stephen Willeford, the hero who ended the November 5, 2017, Texas church shooting with an AR-15, spoke at the January 20, 2020, Virginia 2A rally in opposition to an AR-15 ban.

Willeford told the Washington Free Beacon’s Stephen Gutowski that he “absolutely” would have been at a disadvantage against the church shooter had he not been able to use an AR-15.
He said, “The attacker had Class 3 body armor,” describing it as a step above what many police departments use. The attacker’s armor meant Willeford had “a very clear disadvantage to start with,” and it meant Willeford would have to choose his shot to end the attack.
Willeford said, “I hit him a couple of times in his body armor and it didn’t stop him, but he felt it. Then when he turned to his side I could see where it [strapped] across form the front to back and I aimed for that spot and I hit him in the side and I hit him in the legs.”

I interviewed Stephen Willeford, the hero of the Sutherland Springs attack, about why he opposes Virginia’s proposed AR-15 ban and why he’s speaking at today’s rally in Richmond. pic.twitter.com/krkWPmms3j

— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) January 20, 2020

Willeford summed up his action again the attacker by saying, “On a moving target that was shooting at me those are pretty good shoots, and i’m not sure I could have done that with a pistol.”
“It’s none of the government’s business at all what I use to defend my life, my family, [and] my friends,” he said.

Church Shooting Hero Jack Wilson: ‘Without the Second Amendment, You Will Lose All of Your Rights’

Turning Point USA (TPUSA) released a video on Sunday featuring an exclusive interview with Texas church hero as Jack Wilson, who took down an active shooter at the West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas, on December 29, 2019.

“Without the Second Amendment, in my opinion — very strongly — you will lose all of your rights,” said Wilson in the interview. “The firearm is not the evil thing, the person behind it is either good or evil. It’s not a firearm issue, it is a person issue.”
Wilson — who was awarded The Governor’s Medal of Courage by Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) last week — noted that, “from the time the individual turned with the gun in his hand, to when it was over was a total of six seconds.”
Watch below:

“When the individual came into the building, it was obvious that he did have a wig and a fake beard on,” said Wilson. “We were watching the individual. I had gone into the audio-visual room and actually had them put a camera — one of the cameras specifically on the individual, just to observe and watch.”
“The individual got up and went back and talked briefly to Tony, and that’s when he turned with the shotgun,” he added. “He had pulled a shotgun out of his pocket, or coat — and then by that time, Richard and I were both drawing our firearms.”
Wilson went on to recall what had happened next.

Richard told him, “Drop the gun, drop the gun.” He shot Richard, immediately turned and shot Tony Wallace. I had people in front of me that prevented me from taking a body shot — a torso shot — and the only shot I had was the head shot. When I took the head shot, the subject went down. From the time the individual turned with the gun in his hand, to when it was over was a total of six seconds.

“It doesn’t start at that moment that you need to be able to protect yourself,” said Wilson. “You have to learn to use a firearm that you’re comfortable with, become proficient with it, train with it.”
“God gave me the training, gave me the mindset to be able to stop the situation,” said Wilson. “We are all in mourning for the loss of Richard and Tony, and the congregation is in mourning for them, and also trying to understand and deal with what happened.”
“But I don’t feel like I killed an individual,” he added. “I killed evil. I took out evil.”

Thank God for these two men, and also for all who will defend others, and address the evils of this world.  These men are correct, guns are not evil; some people who use them are, and you don't resolve that by taking guns from good people.   And it's not the business of the government what gun we own.  Period.  Unless nd until we use one in the commission of a crime, they have no say in the matter.  Any tool can be used for evil, but we don't place controls on all tools because of that.  They want controls on guns because guns can also be used to defend against a government turned evil.  Never forget that.  Without the right to bear arms, we will have no rights at all.  History has proven this.

Commenting without Disqus

No, not leaving that site, as of yet, but many of us have seen issues with upvotes vanishing, myself included, and some are understandably annoyed by this.  If anyone wants, there is a way to comment here without that service, just by using the already built-in system.  You do have to log in via Google, and I know that can be problematic, but if you have them on an android device already, you can use that same data for this.  Same for YouTube, etc., too.  You can log in, view the blogs, and comment, all without an external site.  You can even follow, by scrolling to the very bottom of a page and clicking where a few have already done so.

Also, I do have another site, at Wordpress, where you can comment, just by creating a free account there, and there is a subscribe option for that blog as well.  I haven't used it much, so far, but if there is enough interest, can post there as well as here.  So let me know what you think.  One site is easier, but can do two, if needed.  Link for that is Facts, Fun, and Faith.  I've just been posting here lately, as it's a decent format, and also does allow Disqus to be added, which I wanted to make things easier for all who followed the old channel.

Anyway, just a reminder that we can engage one another without Disqus, if we like.  Happy to chat with all of you either way, and make sure to invite people over that you think would be interested! 

Abortion Emergencies and the Lies Pro-Aborts Tell

One again, we are seeing the lies exposed, the real dangers to women revealed.  Every abortion brings a death, and many bring serious risk to the woman as well.

Pro-Life Operation Rescue Challenges ‘Safe’ Abortion Claim: 100 Emergencies in 2019

Operation Rescue, a pro-life abortion clinic watchdog group, has released a video documenting 100 medical emergencies at abortion clinics in 2019.

The organization states the video is a compilation of actual 911 call clips that include 35 abortion-related hemorrhages, five uterine perforations, and 39 other unspecified incidents that resulted in emergency transport to a local hospital.

“This video tears the façade off the Abortion Cartel’s favorite rhetoric that abortion-related complications and hospitalizations are rare,” wrote Cheryl Sullenger, senior vice president of Operation Rescue.

We must continue to stand together and defend the constitutional right to safe, legal abortion.

— Senator Patty Murray (@MurrayCampaign) January 6, 2020

“One woman spent time in the ICU, one was forced to have a hysterectomy to save her life, and one abortion patient tragically died,” Sullenger said, adding:

Tia Parks died on June 8, 2019, the day after a surgical first trimester abortion at Preterm, an abortion facility in Cleveland, Ohio. Preterm staff failed to diagnose an ectopic pregnancy, which ruptured after the abortion. Parks suffered internal hemorrhaging that killed her.

In one clip in the video, the 911 dispatcher is heard speaking sharply to a staff member at Whole Women’s Health in Peoria, Illinois, who was not providing her with adequate information about the condition of the patient:

911 Dispatcher: What’s going on there?
Abortion Clinic: We have a patient who needs assistance.
911: Okay, what kind of assistance?
Clinic: Transport to the emergency room.
911: And what’s wrong with her?
Clinic: She needs to go through the emergency –
911: Okay, is she conscious and alert? I need something other than that. Is she breathing normally? Do you … is there any way you can find out? I mean, that is our protocol – to ask questions to find out how fast they need to come.

 The clinic employee then is heard telling the dispatcher the reason they are not providing sufficient information:

Clinic: But I also know that we’re an abortion clinic and it’ll be posted all over the Internet.

The video is released a week before the 47th annual March for Life, to be held on the National Mall in Washington, DC on January 24.
The challenge to the abortion industry narrative that the procedure is “safe” also comes in advance of the case June Medical Services LLC v. Gee, to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court on March 4.
In that case, the Court will take up a challenge to a 2014 Louisiana safety law that required abortionists to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. The abortion industry routinely dismisses such laws as an interference with women’s right to abortion.
Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue said:

Based on the number and severity of the 100 medical emergencies we documented last year, and the hundreds we verified before that, it is only prudent to ensure that an abortionist can qualify for hospital privileges. If an abortionist cannot qualify for hospital privileges yet continues to conduct abortions, he or she is placing the lives of women at risk.

Anti-abortion politicians are using every trick in the book to ban abortion. Asking the Supreme Court to reconsider overturning Roe is an assault on our basic rights, plain and simple.

Abortion is safe and legal, and we're doing everything we can to keep it that way. https://t.co/7rATmkTbxd

— Alexis McGill Johnson (@alexismcgill) January 2, 2020

Newman said his organization believes the video documentation of 100 incidents of emergency transport from abortion clinics “is just the tip of a very ugly iceberg.”
“Abortionists want everyone to think abortion is one of the safest procedures, but in truth, it carries life-threatening risks that threaten women on a daily basis,” he explained. “The public has a right to know the truth about the dangers of abortion.”

There can be no mistake; all the abortionists care about is the money, and the continued sacrifice of babies to the one they follow.  They don't care about the health of women.  Used to be, you could pay a small fee and trace a license plate.  Pro-life people would use this method to determine whose cars were left at abortion clinics, to see if the women had been admitted to the hospital.  Abortionists didn't like this, and now you can't do that anymore.  They lie they cover up, and they destroy lives.  Abortion is NOT a right.  Murdering one's own offspring isn't a right.  Enough is enough.

Jet Fuel Dumped on Schools!

This is truly chilling.  Fortunately, there seem to be no serious issues from this, but still:

Delta Jet Dumps Fuel on Schoolchildren During Emergency Landing at LAX

A Delta Airlines jet flying from Los Angeles to Shanghai on Tuesday was forced to make an emergency landing at LAX — and dumped jet fuel on the city, including on children playing outside at Park Avenue Elementary School in Cudahy.

The Los Angeles Times reported:

Delta Flight 89 had taken off from LAX with 149 passengers and was en route to Shanghai when it turned around and headed back to the airport because of engine trouble.
…
The pilots took the plane — a Boeing 777 — north over Malibu within four minutes after takeoff at 11:32 a.m., according to Flightradar24, a firm that maintains airline path data across the globe.
…
According to Flightradar24, Tuesday’s flight never got above 8,000 feet and was at about 2,300 feet when it passed over Park Avenue Elementary School in Cudahy at 11:53 a.m. The plane showered jet fuel on schoolchildren below.

CBS News reported that three schools were affected:

The pilot reported a compressor stall in the right engine — damage that can happen through malfunction or when a foreign object such as a bird hits an engine. The damage can reduce engine thrust or lead to a fire in the worst cases.
…
The fuel sprayed out in two streams from the wings and fell at midday in the city of Cudahy and nearby parts of Los Angeles County, about 13 miles east of the airport.
The vapor directly landed on three Los Angeles Unified School District campuses and about 20 others experienced some effects from the odor of fuel discharged at higher altitudes, the district said in a statement.
The fuel, described by fire officials as a vapor, caused minor skin and lung irritation to 56 children and adults but nobody was taken to the hospital and the only decontamination required was soap and water, officials said.
All the schools were cleaned overnight.

At least one observer caught the action in a video posted to Twitter:

Caught this in Bell Gardens over my house NEWS SAID IT DROPPED FUEL OVER AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN CUDAHY @KTLA @FOXLA @cnnbrk @UniNoticias @NBCLA @ABC7 @ABC @NBCNews @TelemundoNews pic.twitter.com/VG3HBpyYtn

— Sujey Hernandez (@SujeyHernandez) January 14, 2020

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating. There are questions as to whether the pilots needed to dump the fuel, or whether they could have avoided doing so, or done so over an unpopulated area instead.
Students returned to school Wednesday as usual.

This raises some serious safety concerns.  Was the fuel dump necessary?  If so, how safe is it to have these planes flying over populated areas?  What would have happened had they not dumped the fuel?  A fiery crash?  More harm than the fuel caused?   Statistically, how often is this sort of thing an issue?  There have been other questionable reports of things possibly being dumped from planes, and I wonder how often that happens.

This is "Tolerance".

As usual, what the Left demands fro others, they fail to demonstrate themselves.  The rules they would set for you do not apply to them.  They lie when they claim to want tolerance; what they want is total submission:

AP Photo/Markus Schreiber

Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.

14 Jan 2020279

2:39

A radical feminist group has claimed responsibility for recently vandalizing two churches in Germany and torching a pro-life journalist’s car.

The first attack reportedly occurred on December 27, when members of a group called the “Feminist Autonomous Cell” (FAC) vandalized an evangelical Christian church with spray pain in the southern German city of Tübingen. The group also set a minibus on fire outside the church, causing some 40,000 euro in damages, according to estimates by authorities.
Not long after, FAC posted a confession letter on the website indymedia, which accused the of fomenting “anti-feminist attitudes,” Catholic News Service reported.
Last week, FAC militants were at it again, throwing paint on Saint Elisabeth’s church in Berlin. The group posted an online letter claiming that the paint attack came in retaliation for the church having hosted participants in Germany’s annual March for Life, held last September.
In their letter, FAC members justified the attack, saying that the March for Life serves as a platform for “fundamentalist, anti-trans, homophobic, anti-Semitic, misogynist, patriarchal, and right-wing conservative” speakers.
On New Year’s Eve, FAC members set fire to the SUV owned by pro-life German journalist and author Gunnar Schupelius, who writes for the newspaper BZ and has openly espoused pro-life views.
In FAC’s confession letter for the arson, they also doxxed Schupelius, publishing his home address “in a bid to provoke further violence,” Catholic News Service reported.
This marked the second time Schupelius’ car was torched because of his pro-life stance. Five years ago his car was set on fire and, as in the recent case, a confession taking credit for the arson was published online.
In an interview last week, Schupelius was asked if there wasn’t some contradiction in left-wing radicals — who supposedly defend freedom of speech — using violence to shut him up.
“It is really a paradoxical situation,” Schupelius said. “These are people who claim to be fighting for the right thing. This includes tolerance towards dissenters, but they don’t believe in that.”
Schupelius added that the discussion has changed and anyone dissenting from popular opinion on matters such as abortion or climate change must justify their positions, since they are seen as going against the morally superior stance.

And that's the crux of the issue.  They know they are wrong, so they label all who oppose them as evil, by application of various labels, and then they demand those "evil" people remain silent, because they don't get to have an opinion.  This isn't the only time this has happened, either.  Note the hypocrisy from this woman:

Not even close to being the only case, either.  Now, mind you, you have to really dig on YT to locate these videos, because they bury them in the searches, same as they do for any racial attacks against white people, but here are several more, showing the "tolerance" of the left, on any serious issue:

Warning on the next one about the behavior of one individual - highly offensive and inappropriate:

At least in this case, the German polizei do their jobs, and arrest those violent people.

Note the contrast between the two groups:

Apparently, 47% of Young Americans Need to Relocate

This is sad, and a reflection on just how bad the schools have become.  This is what happens when communism and socialism and perversion are being taught in schools, and the nation's freedoms are represented as bad things. 

Poll: 47% of Young Democrats Prefer Other Countries over America

Gerardo Mora/Getty

Alana Mastrangelo

14 Jan 202017,269

2:35

A shocking new poll has discovered that 47 percent of young Democrats believe that other countries are better than the United States. Moreover, many young Americans admit that they wouldn’t mind other countries becoming as militarily powerful as the United States.

Slightly more than one third — 36 percent — of Americans 18 to 29 say that other countries are better than the United States, according to a recent poll released by Pew Research.
Among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents under the age of 30, nearly half, 47 percent, say that there are other countries that are better than the U.S. Meanwhile, just 20 percent of Democrats age 50 and over agree with this sentiment.
“Democrats have become more likely to say there are other countries that are better than the U.S.,” says Pew Research. “In telephone surveys, the share of Democrats saying this is higher than at any point since the question was first asked by Pew Research Center in 2011, and there has been a corresponding decline in the share saying the U.S. stands above other nations.” This poll demonstrates the dramatic shift in the Democrat party’s base, and the potential schism between traditional Democrat voters and young and woke progressives.
The study also noted that young Americans are “more likely to say it would be acceptable if another country became as militarily powerful as the U.S.”
According to Pew Research, a majority of adults — 61 percent — say that the United States should maintain its status as a military superpower, but that more than half — 55 percent — of Democrats under the age of 30 admit that they would find it acceptable if other nations became as militarily powerful as the United States.
Among young Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, these numbers are significantly lower, as just 19 percent of adults under the age of 30 agree with their young Democrat counterparts with regards to the idea that other countries are superior to the United States.
Among Republicans ages 50 and older, only 4 percent share agree with this sentiment.
The report added that while a majority of Republicans say that the Untied States should try to maintain its status as a military superpower, 38 percent of Republicans under the age of 30 say that it would be acceptable if another country became as militarily powerful as the U.S.

To the parents; get your kids out of these Leftist, Globalist indoctrination centers posing as schools.  To the people who think this way, I have just one response, the door's that-a-way.

Flori-Duh Restricts Gun Rights, Again

This state has so many issues.  Yet again, they've decided to restrict the rights of their citizens, passing yet another law that violates the Constitution, as do all gun control measures.  Note, too, this has the GOP involved:

GOP-Led FL Senate Committee Bucks NRA, Passes Gun Control

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AWR Hawkins

14 Jan 2020572

A Republican-led Florida Senate committee bucked the NRA to pass new controls for gun shows in the Sunshine State.

The gun control got the support of State Sen. Tom Lee, the same Sen. who voted to reinstate disgraced Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel in October 2019.
The Miami Herald reports the new controls are aimed at private sales at gun shows.
They require a gun seller “to check the person’s ID to make sure they’re legally allowed to own the weapon and fill out a form recording the transaction.” The vendor would check these things via a “form” which “would include a list of questions for the buyer, such as whether they’re a felon, a fugitive from justice, or have anything else in their history that would prevent them from owning a gun.”
The NRA’s Marion Hammer said, “It appears to be an actual attempt to ban private sales through red tape and fear. Asking average citizens to create what amounts to a government form and get it notarized is ridiculous.”
Hammer described the new regulations as “nothing less than gun control on steroids.”
But Sen. Tom Lee defended the gun control vote, saying, “This committee bill is our best effort to try to improve public safety on the margins here. It is not a perfect system.”
Lee admitted that putting the seller in the position of performing a quasi-background check on buyers places the seller in a tight spot. He noted that the seller should hold on to a completed form “indefinitely,” to show compliance with the regulation, in the event that a gun “ultimately [gets] used in the commission of a crime.”
Michael Bloomberg-funded Moms Demand Action supported the gun control.

 Shame that the elected officials in Florida and so any other states don't respect the Constitution of this nation, or the rights of their constituents.  Floridians need to do some house cleaning in the coming election, and get these traitors to freedom voted out of office.