Guns

The National Rifle Association is in chaos amid growing calls for gun control following mass shootings at spas in Georgia and at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado.

"The group has been plagued by infighting and allegations of self-dealing and is defending itself against a sweeping lawsuit filed in August by the New York attorney general that alleges that the organization violated its nonprofit status as its top leaders allegedly raided the organization's coffers for personal gain," The Washington Post reported Saturday.

NBC White House correspondent Shannon Pettypiece this week asserted that gun safety reform and voting rights are "far-left issues."

Pettypiece made the remark during a discussion on MSNBC about Democrats' efforts to move voting rights legislation forward.

On CNN Wednesday, anchor Poppy Harlow challenged Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) for his opposition to expanded background checks on gun purchases — and corrected the congressman's false claims about what was in the bill he voted against.

"You did vote against H.R. 8 in the House," said Harlow. "And that's a bill that would mandate background checks for private sales between private parties or guns sold on the internet. Why is that a bad idea, in your mind?"

Pro-gun groups such as the National Rifle Association have long argued that more Americans should be armed with deadly weapons on the grounds that the country needs more "good guys with guns" to stop "bad guys with guns."

CNN's Alisyn Camerota on Wednesday explained how the mass shooting that killed ten people at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado completely undermines that entire argument.

Sharp-eyed critics of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) noticed a none-too-subtle change in her decor on Tuesday night after she posted an interview she did with Newsmax on the mass shooting in her state on Monday.

In a previous question and answer Zoom session she did weeks ago, she had a full display of her personal armory haphazardly stacked on the bookshelves behind her. Tuesday night those same guns were nowhere to be seen, replaced with books.

It did not go unnoticed as you can see below:

Reacting to Republican senators already moving on past the tragic mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado, that took ten lives, former Republican National Committee head Michael Steele helped open MSNBC's "Morning Joe" by criticizing the party he once headed for already denying action needs to be taken to get guns off the street.

Speaking with co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, Steele expressed disgust at Republicans only offering "thoughts and prayers" instead of solutions once again.

"It has been a lie that's been promulgated, perpetuated and just rolled out at moments like this for the last 20 years or so. And the reality is exactly in the space that you've described," Steele began. "The Supreme Court has given us the clarity that we need on the Second Amendment and what it means and what it doesn't mean with respect to individual liberties."

Addressing comments made by Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and John Kennedy (R-LA), he continued, "What you heard yesterday is what we've heard before: 'thoughts and prayers but we ain't doing crap,' and the American people are tired of that. As you noted, this is a 70 to 80 percent issue with the American people -- there aren't a whole lot of issues on that list, just go through it."

"For Democrats, just move to that space where you can have the conversation," he added. "For Republicans, since you're so hot about all they're going to take our guns -- put a proposal on the table that you think will address the issues as Ted Cruz and others have noted. So, we're going to do this dance, we've done it before. We've heard it before in Columbine, Aurora -- you name it. After all of these horrific events, our legislatures get in the room and they say exactly what they just said. You could have taken tape, Joe, after Columbine, after Aurora, any of these events. Just play it, put it on a loop."

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The gunman who allegedly killed 10 people in a Colorado grocery store purchased his weapon less than a week before the massacre.

Authorities said shooting suspect Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa bought the AR-15 rifle used in the Boulder killings just six days earlier, reported the Associated Press.

The Veterans Home of California in the town of Yountville is on lockdown after a woman armed with a gun was reported to be inside the facility.

As of now, police have not been able to confirm if any shots were fired. ABC30 reports that a shelter-in-place has been ordered for the town and people are being asked to stay away from the area. A local has not admitted any patients regarding the incident, according to the report.

Former President Barack Obama on Tuesday spoke out after the mass shooting at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado that left 10 people dead.

"Michelle and I grieve with the families of the victims of the shooting in Boulder, just as we grieve with the families of the people killed in Atlanta and everyone else who has lost a loved one to gun violence," the former president said in a statement. "Because in addition to grief, we are also feeling a deep, familiar outrage that we as a nation continue to tolerate these kinds of random, senseless acts day in and day out without taking any significant action—an outrage that people in Colorado have known far too often over the years."

Pro-QAnon Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Tuesday attacked gun safety laws as ineffective in the wake of the mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado that left 10 people dead.

"Colorado has everything the left has asked for," Greene wrote on Twitter. "And it still didn't stop a thug like Ahmad Al-Issa from murdering Americans."

Local police have identified the ten people killed in the shooting at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, this Monday.

According to the Boulder Police Department, the victims are: Denny Stong, 20, Neven Stanisic, 23, Rikki Olds, 25, Tralona Bartkowiak, 49, Suzanne Fountain, 59, Teri Leiker, 51, Eric Talley, 51, Kevin Mahoney, 61, Lynn Murray, 62, and Jody Waters, 65.

Fox News host Harris Faulkner on Tuesday completely ignored a mass shooting in Colorado and instead asked Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) about Vice President Kamala Harris's laugh.

Just minutes after officials in Boulder named the 10 victims of Monday's mass shooting, Harris began her Faulkner Focus program by interviewing Cruz about the border.

A Colorado man who shot and killed 10 people at a Boulder grocery store was a deeply disturbed individual, according to his older brother.

Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 21, was charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder in the King Soopers massacre, and his brother described him as "very anti-social" and paranoid, reported The Daily Beast.