Tag Archive: Self-Defense

on June 22, 2015 in World News

Uber Bans Guns After Driver Uses One to Stop Attempted Mass Shooting

Uber Bans Guns After Driver Uses One to Stop Attempted Mass Shooting by AWR Hawkins On June 19, Uber announced it has banned both drivers and law-abiding passengers with concealed permits from having guns with them for self-defense while in Uber vehicles. This announcement comes three months after an Uber driver with a concealed carry license thwarted an attempted mass shooting by pulling his own weapon and shooting a gunman who had opened fire in Chicago’s Logan Square. On April 20, the Chicago Tribune reported the driver was watching “a group of people” walk in front of his car on… View Article

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on June 22, 2015 in World News

Obama Attacks Fox News Viewers… Again

Obama Attacks Fox News Viewers… Again by Charlie Spiering President Obama continued his criticism of Fox News, arguing that the network’s viewers are getting a different set of facts than the rest of the country. During a WTF Podcast with Marc Maron, Obama lamented that the media is “splintered” now, with all kinds of different news outlets. “We’re not in a common conversation,” he said. “If you watch Fox News you inhabit a completely different world with different facts than if you read (the) New York Times,” he said. Obama said media institutions such as Fox News and political organizations were trying… View Article

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on June 22, 2015 in World News

Obama: Gun Manufacturers ‘Make Out Like Bandits’ After Mass Shootings

Obama: Gun Manufacturers ‘Make Out Like Bandits’ After Mass Shootings by Charlie Spierin President Obama continued pressing for change of the nation’s gun laws, which he argues would help stop mass shootings that he says have become all too frequent. He also signaled frustration with the National Rifle Association and gun manufacturers for blocking his proposed legislative efforts. During an interview with the “WTF Podcast,” with Marc Maron, Obama complained that gun manufacturers reaped the benefits from shootings, based on the fear that the government would take away their guns. “Each time that these events occur, ironically, gun manufacturers make… View Article

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on June 21, 2015 in World News

Ugandan ‘gays’ charge speech is ‘crime against humanity’

Ugandan ‘gays’ charge speech is ‘crime against humanity’ International case puts bull’s-eye on Americans’ First Amendment rights by Bob Unruh Critics of President Obama long have accused him, not without considerable evidence, of wanting to make the United States and its Constitution subservient to international precedents and practices on issues like guns, marriage, gender orientation, the use of fossil fuels, “clean” energy and more. Now a fight is developing that could determine whether international law can be used to torpedo the First Amendment of the United States’ founding document. For Americans. On American soil. The case is Sexual Minorities of… View Article

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on June 21, 2015 in World News

Hungary, Greece, Cyprus to Restart Food Trade With Russia Despite Sanctions

Hungary, Greece, Cyprus to Restart Food Trade With Russia Despite Sanctions Hungary, Greece and Cyprus may soon be allowed to export fruit and vegetables to the Russian market, according to a report in the newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Russian health authorities are conducting audits of suppliers in all three countries, as well as India, Alexey Alexeyenko, the director of Rosselkhoznadzor (the Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance) is quoted as saying. “About 20 companies will be verified in Greece and Hungary. In India — less, around four to five. Cyprus has requested a delay for technical reasons and therefore,… View Article

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on June 21, 2015 in World News

Hillary Clinton: ‘I Will Not Be Afraid To Keep Fighting For’ Gun Control

Hillary Clinton: ‘I Will Not Be Afraid To Keep Fighting For’ Gun Control by AWR Hawkins On June 20 Hillary Clinton said she has not quit fighting for gun control and “will not be afraid to keep fighting for” gun control in the future. Clinton was speaking to the US Conference of Mayors in San Francisco. According to Huffington Post, Clinton said more “common sense gun reforms” are needed in the wake of the June 17 attack on Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. She suggested these reforms will “keep weapons out of the hands of criminals and the violently unstable… View Article

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on June 21, 2015 in World News

Cruz Defends Gun Rights In Iowa

Cruz Defends Gun Rights In Iowa by AWR Hawkins During a June 19 town hall meeting in Red Oak, Iowa, Republican presidential candidate Senator Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) defended gun rights and suggested Iowans define gun control the same way Texans do–namely, as “hitting what you aim at.” Besides defending gun rights, Cruz also told the Iowa crowd how much his wife, Heidi, loved shooting machine guns with him at an earlier campaign event in a another state. The Huffington Post reported on the Iowa event by pointing out that Cruz “did not mention the mass shooting [in Charleston] during… View Article

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on June 21, 2015 in World News

Why Do Gunmen Target Churches And Schools, Not NRA Meetings?

Why Do Gunmen Target Churches And Schools, Not NRA Meetings? by AWR Hawkins In the wake of the heinous attack on Charleston’s Emanuel American Methodist Episcopal Church, Democrats’ ritual calls for more gun control have louder than usual, and a mainstream media’s focus on the threat of “mass shootings” has been kicked up a notch. The question none of the Democrats or media outlets have asked is why gunmen, historically speaking, attack churches and school but bypass NRA meetings? Why do they target Fort Hood twice within a five years period while opening fire in Walmart remains unpopular? To ask… View Article

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on June 21, 2015 in World News

Hillary Clinton Denounces White Privilege

Hillary Clinton Denounces White Privilege, Calls for Taking Guns From ‘Those Whose Hearts Are Filled With Hate’ by by Katie McHugh In an emotional speech that heaped scorn and blame on America for failing to pass gun control measures while it supposedly perpetuates racism, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said white Americans need to “question our own assumptions and privilege.” “We still allow guns to fall into the hands of people whose hearts are filled with hate. You can’t watch massacre after massacre and not come to the conclusion that President Obama has said, ‘We must tackle this challenge with… View Article

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on June 20, 2015 in World News

Driver cheats death on Chinese motorway as huge saw blade cuts into car bonnet

Driver cheats death on Chinese motorway as huge saw blade cuts into car bonnet A driver has cheated death in China after a huge saw blade fell off a truck and cut into his car. The man was driving down a motorway on the way to the south-western city of Chongqing on Wednesday when the freak accident happened. He suddenly heard a loud noise from the opposite side of the road and saw a huge round object hurtling towards him over the central reservation, the People’s Daily reported. The driver told the newspaper that he saw “white” smoke as something… View Article

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