Excessive spending at the National Rifle Association is “draining NRA cash at a mindboggling speed” and poses “an existential threat to the financial stability” of the gun group, according to slate of leaked documents that have spurred calls for the resignation of CEO Wayne LaPierre. Posted anonymously online, the documents …
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The thing that keeps me awake at night is the thought that a kid who is alive tonight might not be alive tomorrow night because they cross paths with somebody with a gun. This is obviously not an irrational fear – it happened at my school. People like Wayne LaPierre, …
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Senate Democrats on the Judiciary Committee have released a report of “preliminary findings” about the Trump campaign’s infamous meeting with Russians at Trump Tower seeking “incriminating information on Secretary Clinton.” The report raises more questions than it answers: “We still do not know,” it reads, “the full story about the …
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Oliver North led the opening prayer at the annual NRA national convention in Dallas, Texas, over the weekend, as he has in previous years. “Heavenly father, when our day is done, let it be said of us that we were a people who fought the good fight, who finished the …
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It’s about to be the Charlie Daniels Band’s last song at the Saturday night country music show celebrating the National Rifle Association in Dallas, Texas, where the NRA is staging its annual convention. The audience is anxiously wondering if he’ll play “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” But before that …
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Have the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School changed the game? In the wake of the Parkland massacre that killed 17 children and educators, there’s no question the students have changed the national conversation. Survivors of this mass shooting have called “B.S.” on empty Republican pieties – rejecting “thoughts …
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The NRA may now be behind an effort to regulate a device that helped turn Sunday’s country music festival in Las Vegas into a war zone, but the broader gun control debate in Washington remains largely unchanged. Though its leaders are rarely seen or heard from on the Hill, the …
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