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Gun shop owner closes store after mass shootings of kids: 'I don’t know who it’s going to affect'
June 01, 2023
A Georgia gun shop owner has reportedly decided that he can't in good conscience continue to run the store with the knowledge that the weapons he sells could one day be used to target children, NBC News reports.
Jon Waldman said business at his Georgia Ballistics shop in the Atlanta suburb of Duluth has been steady since he opened it in March 2021, but the mass shooting epidemic compelled him to close shop.
Waldman said the March 27 shooting at a Nashville Christian school and the May 3 shooting at an Atlanta hospital were the last straws for him. The 43-year-old has already shuttered his store and expects to have all the weapons cleared out by June 15.
"There’s no guilt about it, I sell to law-abiding citizens," Waldman told NBC News on Thursday.
Waldman said he isn’t opposed to gun ownership but acknowledged the uncertainty about what happens with the firearms and ammunition that he sells has given him pause.
“I’m not against the Second Amendment. But just with my conscience, I can’t sell it because I don’t know who it’s going to affect and hurt," Waldman said.
"That’s what eats at me. If it can happen, it’s only a matter of time until it does happen.”
A customer’s request to purchase 4,000 rounds six weeks ago helped validate his decision to shutter his store.
"If you had ordered 200 to 1,000 rounds that's fine. Anyone who shoots regularly, you're going through a thousand rounds in a month," he said.
"But when you order 4,000 rounds, the kind of stuff that goes through engine blocks, refrigerators and vests that police officers wear, I just can't sell that."
Waldman said he isn’t advocating for more restrictions but said he’d like to see a greater emphasis on training and responsible ownership.
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“For the last couple of months, you just see kids, over and over again, getting shot," Waldman said.
"It's kids being randomly shot, and I'm tired of it. I have a kid, my girlfriend has two kids. I’m a family man. I’m all about people being armed but at the same time they leave their stuff in their cars. They don’t see their firearms (to be as important) as their phones.”
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The conservative New Republic has never been a fan of Donald Trump, but, in its report of his events in Iowa, something took a dark turn.
Among the things talked about during his visit was the need for more religion in the U.S. Trump announced to a room of faith leaders: “We have to bring religion back into our country.”
The report questioned the year that religion "left" the United States since it appears there were still many religious leaders at the Iowa event.
"As far as Christianity goes, it still is deeply baked in an array of American institutions, no less the pledge of allegiance children are forced to recite every morning in their supposedly politics-free classrooms," TNR wrote. "Moreover, we have representatives like Marjorie Taylor Greene, who proudly proclaimed to be a Christian nationalist, or Lauren Boebert, who said 'I’m tired of this separation of church and state junk.'"
The site also highlighted Trump's war on Muslims when he banned primarily Muslim countries from traveling to the United States until the Supreme Court struck it down.
The outlet linked Trump's comments in Iowa to the GOP's decision to revive their anti-LGBTQ campaigns of the early 2000s, when many states banned same-sex marriage. The start of Pride Month is bringing out fringe conservatives to attack the community, according to various news reports.
IN OTHER NEWS: 'Shameless': Kari Lake blasted over latest conspiracy theory about 2020 election ballots
What the site noted is that all of this comes as Trump is facing a judgment for defaming E. Jean Carroll after she alleged he sexually assaulted her. Trump has also been accused of sexual assault by 25 other women. He was caught on tape bragging that he grabs women's genitals without consent.
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'Shameless': Kari Lake blasted over latest conspiracy theory about 2020 election ballots
June 01, 2023
Kari Lake, fresh off her latest loss in court last month in her effort to overturn her Arizona election loss in 2022 to Gov. Katie Hobbs, is now pushing a new conspiracy theory about the 2020 presidential election — and Laurie Roberts of The Arizona Republic tore it to shreds in a new column.
"'Welcome to the Banana Republic of Arizona,' Lake tweeted Monday. 'Maricopa County report reveals thousands of ballots in 2020 didn’t have proof of citizenship.' Naturally, Lake’s 'war room' chimed in on this shocking development. 'The Secretary of State who oversaw this debacle is squatting as Governor,' her campaign account added. 'The guy who was Maricopa County Recorder is Secretary of State. These people were promoted for successfully sabotaging 2020.'"
"I suppose it wouldn't be all that surprising that Lake would be ignorant of such matters as as she revs up her supporters for what appears to be her inevitable run for the U.S. Senate next year," wrote Roberts. "Anything Lake doesn’t understand — state election law, federal election law, how bills become law — automatically becomes a 'bombshell.'"
The problem, wrote Roberts, is that, while 4,484 voters in Arizona didn't prove their citizenship, federal law says that they don't have to. State law requires proof of citizenship, but under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, which supersedes the state law, voters are simply required to affirm they are a citizen under penalty of perjury. Roughly 5 to 7 percent of voters don't possess the type of identification needed for proof of citizenship, noted Roberts, and "some of them are Native Americans or others born outside of hospitals." The actual known grand total of non-citizens who improperly voted in 2020 was five.
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This, Roberts concluded, is Lake's big "bombshell." "And you wonder why people no longer trust our elections?" she wrote.
All of this comes as right-wingers are still targeting and harassing election officials in Arizona, baselessly accusing them of misconduct or fraud for Democrats' victories in the state in 2020 and 2022. Bill Gates, a Republican who serves as the Maricopa County Recorder, announced this week he would not be seeking re-election due to the campaign of intimidation against him by election conspiracy theorists.
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