All posts tagged "Ar-15"

WASHINGTON — Republicans can’t stop thinking about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). They see her everywhere — including in the sheen of their recently retired green congressional pins.

Turns out, when Republicans see green these days, they see a flash of Ocasio-Cortez and the Green New Deal she’s championed. That proved to be the driving reason behind why the GOP-controlled House of Representatives scrapped the official congressional lapel pin — which help Capitol Police officers quickly identify lawmakers — during the 118th congressional session.

“I hated the color,” Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) — while rocking a large defund the World Health Organization button — told Raw Story while walking across the Capitol grounds. “It reminded me too much of the Green New Deal.” ...

WASHINGTON – It’s been 11 years now – to the day – since most Americans learned how easily a person could use an AR-15 assault rifle to kill 20 six- and seven-year-olds, along with six adults, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

Hundreds more mass shootings have followed — at churches, concerts, shopping centers, supermarkets and, of course, many other schools. A commonality: sociopathic killers often choose AR-15s over less efficient killing machines.

While the sorrow remains real and raw, the politics of guns have only grown more heated, divisive and partisan in recent years. They’re also now used as political props....

When Edward Snowden leaked that the NSA was indiscriminately spying on all Americans by monitoring their emails and phone calls, there was very little blow-back toward the Obama Administration. The media quickly chose their preferred narrative that implied Snowden was a traitor instead of honing in on the fact that the government was clearly violating the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.