Georgia Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle said he will not support a bill that would give Delta a massive tax break, unless the airline reverses its decision to sever a partnership with the National Rifle Association.
Delta ended the NRA partnership on Saturday due to pressure from gun control advocates following the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida.
The proposed bill would exempt jet fuel purchases from Georgia sales tax and could save Delta around $40 million.
Delta should refuse to fly to and from Georgia, pull their jobs, move their headquarters.
This is unbelievable. Hypocrites. They want a damn cake baker to be able to not serve a gay couple but they want the government to step in and threaten a company with their votes for not supporting another organization????
Delta employs how many thousands of people in Georgia? Lt. Gov just guaranteed he will never drop the Lt.!
People should see the pictures and video of the carnage. They need to see it. If they don’t see it, god forbid, they need to experience it up close and personal. Otherwise, nothing is going to change.
People should see the pictures and video of the carnage. They need to see it. If they don’t see it, god forbid, they need to experience it up close and personal. Otherwise, nothing is going to change.
I wonder if anyone will interview this woamn and ask her if she's proud of her life's accomplishment?
From the Reporter’s Desk
In 2015, when I began examining the National Rifle
Association’s influence on American politics, the name Marion Hammer kept
coming up. She had been the N.R.A.’s Florida lobbyist for nearly four decades,
and those who knew her suggested she was like the Robert Moses of guns,
exerting incredible control over various government processes. She created the
country’s first Stand Your Ground law, and the statute that normalized the
concealed carrying of handguns in public.
I learned how Hammer’s power worked in 2016, when she
got involved in a low-stakes dispute. In 2000, a Florida state agency that
regulates water quality had discovered that a Tampa-area gun range was
polluting a neighboring wetland with lead shot. The range agreed to build a
barrier to prevent further contamination, in 2004. Eleven years later, the wall
hadn’t gone up, so the agency sued the range. The state’s case was widely
regarded as airtight and yet several months later the lawsuit was dropped
without explanation. In e-mails and text messages acquired through
public-records requests, I discovered that it was Hammer who had drafted the
settlement dismissing the case. Her Republican ally forwarded it to the agency,
which backed out of the lawsuit the next day.
To me, the episode had great and terrifying
implications. If Hammer had the authority to kill this obscure state lawsuit,
what else could she do? In the past year, I interviewed dozens of Hammer’s
allies and opponents, and obtained thousands of e-mails and documents. I saw
the breadth of her power in Florida in the ways in which officials at the
highest levels of state government defer to her. When she gives orders, they
follow them.
When I began the project, I had no idea that fourteen
students and three staff members would be killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas
High School. Hammer’s policies transformed Florida into a state where the
public carrying of firearms is a fact of daily life. Under those circumstances,
such a horrifying incident now seems almost inevitable.
I wonder if anyone will interview this woamn and ask her if she's proud of her life's accomplishment?
From the Reporter’s Desk
In 2015, when I began examining the National Rifle
Association’s influence on American politics, the name Marion Hammer kept
coming up. She had been the N.R.A.’s Florida lobbyist for nearly four decades,
and those who knew her suggested she was like the Robert Moses of guns,
exerting incredible control over various government processes. She created the
country’s first Stand Your Ground law, and the statute that normalized the
concealed carrying of handguns in public.
I learned how Hammer’s power worked in 2016, when she
got involved in a low-stakes dispute. In 2000, a Florida state agency that
regulates water quality had discovered that a Tampa-area gun range was
polluting a neighboring wetland with lead shot. The range agreed to build a
barrier to prevent further contamination, in 2004. Eleven years later, the wall
hadn’t gone up, so the agency sued the range. The state’s case was widely
regarded as airtight and yet several months later the lawsuit was dropped
without explanation. In e-mails and text messages acquired through
public-records requests, I discovered that it was Hammer who had drafted the
settlement dismissing the case. Her Republican ally forwarded it to the agency,
which backed out of the lawsuit the next day.
To me, the episode had great and terrifying
implications. If Hammer had the authority to kill this obscure state lawsuit,
what else could she do? In the past year, I interviewed dozens of Hammer’s
allies and opponents, and obtained thousands of e-mails and documents. I saw
the breadth of her power in Florida in the ways in which officials at the
highest levels of state government defer to her. When she gives orders, they
follow them.
When I began the project, I had no idea that fourteen
students and three staff members would be killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas
High School. Hammer’s policies transformed Florida into a state where the
public carrying of firearms is a fact of daily life. Under those circumstances,
such a horrifying incident now seems almost inevitable.
—Mike Spies
I think of it like businesses that don't want to have a double-bottom-line (i.e. one that values righteousness and profitability). Typically, those businesses put layer over layer to distance the person green-lighting unrighteous decisions from the people impacted by them, so they can comfortably not be compelled to make righteous decisions (which are seen as barriers to profitability). You said you wonder if anyone will interview her - I wonder how many people outside her personal echo chamber are even given the opportunity to discuss her impact. My guess is single digits.
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You realize that this was a training for citizens, not officers, right? Are you aware of the Run.Hide.Fight trainings that are being taught across the country? This is what is being instructed of almost all people now in the event of an active shooter. It is not being taught to LE professionals, but they are present during these trainings. We use it at my college and so do most in my area.
You realize that this was a training for citizens, not officers, right? Are you aware of the Run.Hide.Fight trainings that are being taught across the country? This is what is being instructed of almost all people now in the event of an active shooter. It is not being taught to LE professionals, but they are present during these trainings. We use it at my college and so do most in my area.
None of this changes the fact that sem-auto rifles like the AR-15 should be banned and mag capacity reduced for all semi-auto guns. I haven't seen much on here lately about wanting to ban all guns. Maybe from a few extremists and this only strengthens their view.
Compromise is being sought from the gun control side and this does nothing to change what is being asked from gun owners/advocates.
I wonder if anyone will interview this woamn and ask her if she's proud of her life's accomplishment?
From the Reporter’s Desk
In 2015, when I began examining the National Rifle
Association’s influence on American politics, the name Marion Hammer kept
coming up. She had been the N.R.A.’s Florida lobbyist for nearly four decades,
and those who knew her suggested she was like the Robert Moses of guns,
exerting incredible control over various government processes. She created the
country’s first Stand Your Ground law, and the statute that normalized the
concealed carrying of handguns in public.
I learned how Hammer’s power worked in 2016, when she
got involved in a low-stakes dispute. In 2000, a Florida state agency that
regulates water quality had discovered that a Tampa-area gun range was
polluting a neighboring wetland with lead shot. The range agreed to build a
barrier to prevent further contamination, in 2004. Eleven years later, the wall
hadn’t gone up, so the agency sued the range. The state’s case was widely
regarded as airtight and yet several months later the lawsuit was dropped
without explanation. In e-mails and text messages acquired through
public-records requests, I discovered that it was Hammer who had drafted the
settlement dismissing the case. Her Republican ally forwarded it to the agency,
which backed out of the lawsuit the next day.
To me, the episode had great and terrifying
implications. If Hammer had the authority to kill this obscure state lawsuit,
what else could she do? In the past year, I interviewed dozens of Hammer’s
allies and opponents, and obtained thousands of e-mails and documents. I saw
the breadth of her power in Florida in the ways in which officials at the
highest levels of state government defer to her. When she gives orders, they
follow them.
When I began the project, I had no idea that fourteen
students and three staff members would be killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas
High School. Hammer’s policies transformed Florida into a state where the
public carrying of firearms is a fact of daily life. Under those circumstances,
such a horrifying incident now seems almost inevitable.
—Mike Spies
I think of it like businesses that don't want to have a double-bottom-line (i.e. one that values righteousness and profitability). Typically, those businesses put layer over layer to distance the person green-lighting unrighteous decisions from the people impacted by them, so they can comfortably not be compelled to make righteous decisions (which are seen as barriers to profitability). You said you wonder if anyone will interview her - I wonder how many people outside her personal echo chamber are even given the opportunity to discuss her impact. My guess is single digits.
As a lobbyist with 40 years, wandering the halls of the Florida legislature and capitol building, her echo chamber is probably quite large and extensive. Victims' family and friends should track those folks down and stand outside their homes and offices with overblown images of their bloody and dead loved ones and shame them. People don't need to be outside her echo chamber when the people inside it are responsible for enacting her will on behalf of the NRA, hence how Florida got to where it is today. 2 mass shootings, 75 total victims, a little over a year and a half apart. Florida ranks 9th in firarms deaths per capita.
How is this any different than the last article you posted? THIS is why people don't want to ban all guns. People have the right to protect themselves. Rational people want to ban mass killing machines, not hand guns.
How is this any different than the last article you posted? THIS is why people don't want to ban all guns. People have the right to protect themselves. Rational people want to ban mass killing machines, not hand guns.
I thought you were "to my left". Now you've moved. WTF dude.
I can’t read that specific article without agreeing to provide google with answers so it’s not worth it to me. I did read other articles about it on other news sites. What do you think there is to be learned from this?
my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
I can’t read that specific article without agreeing to provide google with answers so it’s not worth it to me. I did read other articles about it on other news sites. What do you think there is to be learned from this?
That with an assault rifle, he perp could have been "super killed".. not just killed.
I can’t read that specific article without agreeing to provide google with answers so it’s not worth it to me. I did read other articles about it on other news sites. What do you think there is to be learned from this?
Sorry the first time I read that article it didn't have all those damn Google questions. It was better detailed than the first one I posted. I did not post it as part of the semi-automatic AR-15 debate. I just thought that it was interesting. To be learned: A competent law abiding armed citizen, minding his own business (like the guy in Texas at home, across the street from the church) going to work, was able to avoid at the very least being victim of another violent crime, or at the most, could have been killed himself. It's unfortunate that the carjacker chose a life of crime and got himself killed. But this serves as a serious deterrent. If more people would be able to defend themselves that would serve as a deterrent. The carjacker didn't think he was going to run into an armed citizen. He thought he was going to rip somebody out of the car at gunpoint and drive off with the car. Didn't happen. The carjacker they suspect, had backup they were looking for some green Plymouth or something. So for the carjacker's buddies who were doing this as well, I would hope that they are deterred from trying this some more after losing their buddy. The 24 year old here, who was the potential victim who stopped the carjacker in his tracks, probably spared future victims of these same perpetrators. If crooks think they're going to meet serious resistance, I'm saying that a competent law abiding armed citizenry is a good deterrent. I'm not saying every teacher or every citizen needs to be armed and know how to shoot, it takes a special aptitude for that that not everyone has, that's fine. But those who can and want to, I believe would help reduce (not eliminate) but reduce gun violence.
None of this changes the fact that sem-auto rifles like the AR-15 should be banned and mag capacity reduced for all semi-auto guns. I haven't seen much on here lately about wanting to ban all guns. Maybe from a few extremists and this only strengthens their view.
Compromise is being sought from the gun control side and this does nothing to change what is being asked from gun owners/advocates.
I would gladly ban all guns, in a heartbeat
Remove the AR's all you want, although a great start, we will still have 40% of the world's guns with only 4% of the population
The idea of guns for protection is what has lead us to this country being littered with guns and gun related deaths... America's gun violence problem goes well beyond mass shootings and assault rifles. The numbers speak for themselves
I'm in the minority, and I'm fine with that. Good luck America, you're going to need it
None of this changes the fact that sem-auto rifles like the AR-15 should be banned and mag capacity reduced for all semi-auto guns. I haven't seen much on here lately about wanting to ban all guns. Maybe from a few extremists and this only strengthens their view.
Compromise is being sought from the gun control side and this does nothing to change what is being asked from gun owners/advocates.
I would gladly ban all guns, in a heartbeat
Remove the AR's all you want, although a great start, we will still have 40% of the world's guns with only 4% of the population
The idea of guns for protection is what has lead us to this country being littered with guns and gun related deaths... America's gun violence problem goes well beyond mass shootings and assault rifles. The numbers speak for themselves
I'm in the minority, and I'm fine with that. Good luck America, you're going to need it
“Nobody wants to ban all guns” Man, if I had a dime for every time I have heard that phrase used.
None of this changes the fact that sem-auto rifles like the AR-15 should be banned and mag capacity reduced for all semi-auto guns. I haven't seen much on here lately about wanting to ban all guns. Maybe from a few extremists and this only strengthens their view.
Compromise is being sought from the gun control side and this does nothing to change what is being asked from gun owners/advocates.
I would gladly ban all guns, in a heartbeat
Remove the AR's all you want, although a great start, we will still have 40% of the world's guns with only 4% of the population
The idea of guns for protection is what has lead us to this country being littered with guns and gun related deaths... America's gun violence problem goes well beyond mass shootings and assault rifles. The numbers speak for themselves
I'm in the minority, and I'm fine with that. Good luck America, you're going to need it
“Nobody wants to ban all guns” Man, if I had a dime for every time I have heard that phrase used.
Would you have a dollar?
You can discount anything that accompanies s sentence starting with "nobody".
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Lt. Gov just guaranteed he will never drop the Lt.!
How one bullet shattered a body and a family - CNN https://apple.news/AqWddLqNoSNid-wkbmNZO6g
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Carjackings have been an epidemic in Milwaukee recently. I'm not making a statement here I'm just curious to see what people's reactions are to this story.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2018/02/26/would-carjacker-shot-killed-concealed-carry-holder-outside-milwaukee-business-officials-say/374652002/
https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/man-with-concealed-gun-kills-21-year-old-carjacker
From the Reporter’s Desk
In 2015, when I began examining the National Rifle Association’s influence on American politics, the name Marion Hammer kept coming up. She had been the N.R.A.’s Florida lobbyist for nearly four decades, and those who knew her suggested she was like the Robert Moses of guns, exerting incredible control over various government processes. She created the country’s first Stand Your Ground law, and the statute that normalized the concealed carrying of handguns in public.
I learned how Hammer’s power worked in 2016, when she got involved in a low-stakes dispute. In 2000, a Florida state agency that regulates water quality had discovered that a Tampa-area gun range was polluting a neighboring wetland with lead shot. The range agreed to build a barrier to prevent further contamination, in 2004. Eleven years later, the wall hadn’t gone up, so the agency sued the range. The state’s case was widely regarded as airtight and yet several months later the lawsuit was dropped without explanation. In e-mails and text messages acquired through public-records requests, I discovered that it was Hammer who had drafted the settlement dismissing the case. Her Republican ally forwarded it to the agency, which backed out of the lawsuit the next day.
To me, the episode had great and terrifying implications. If Hammer had the authority to kill this obscure state lawsuit, what else could she do? In the past year, I interviewed dozens of Hammer’s allies and opponents, and obtained thousands of e-mails and documents. I saw the breadth of her power in Florida in the ways in which officials at the highest levels of state government defer to her. When she gives orders, they follow them.
When I began the project, I had no idea that fourteen students and three staff members would be killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Hammer’s policies transformed Florida into a state where the public carrying of firearms is a fact of daily life. Under those circumstances, such a horrifying incident now seems almost inevitable.
—Mike Spies
Libtardaplorable©. And proud of it.
Brilliantati©
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It's hard to not get really pissed when stuff like this is spread and furthers the bullshit conspiracies. You are being duped.
Here you have a 24 year old guy minding his own business going to work.
And then this happens.
I think there's a lot to be learned or discussed about this.
Compromise is being sought from the gun control side and this does nothing to change what is being asked from gun owners/advocates.
Libtardaplorable©. And proud of it.
Brilliantati©
How is this any different than the last article you posted? THIS is why people don't want to ban all guns. People have the right to protect themselves. Rational people want to ban mass killing machines, not hand guns.
I did not post it as part of the semi-automatic AR-15 debate.
I just thought that it was interesting.
To be learned:
A competent law abiding armed citizen, minding his own business (like the guy in Texas at home, across the street from the church) going to work, was able to avoid at the very least being victim of another violent crime, or at the most, could have been killed himself.
It's unfortunate that the carjacker chose a life of crime and got himself killed.
But this serves as a serious deterrent.
If more people would be able to defend themselves that would serve as a deterrent.
The carjacker didn't think he was going to run into an armed citizen. He thought he was going to rip somebody out of the car at gunpoint and drive off with the car. Didn't happen. The carjacker they suspect, had backup they were looking for some green Plymouth or something. So for the carjacker's buddies who were doing this as well, I would hope that they are deterred from trying this some more after losing their buddy.
The 24 year old here, who was the potential victim who stopped the carjacker in his tracks, probably spared future victims of these same perpetrators.
If crooks think they're going to meet serious resistance, I'm saying that a competent law abiding armed citizenry is a good deterrent.
I'm not saying every teacher or every citizen needs to be armed and know how to shoot, it takes a special aptitude for that that not everyone has, that's fine.
But those who can and want to, I believe would help reduce (not eliminate) but reduce gun violence.
Dick's Sporting Goods Ends Sale Of Assault-Style Rifles, Citing Florida Shooting http://n.pr/2BYERRE
Remove the AR's all you want, although a great start, we will still have 40% of the world's guns with only 4% of the population
The idea of guns for protection is what has lead us to this country being littered with guns and gun related deaths... America's gun violence problem goes well beyond mass shootings and assault rifles. The numbers speak for themselves
I'm in the minority, and I'm fine with that. Good luck America, you're going to need it
Man, if I had a dime for every time I have heard that phrase used.
You can discount anything that accompanies s sentence starting with "nobody".