Wednesday, October 4, 2017

KEITH OLBERMANN: NRA IS A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION - MURDERS FOR GUN SALES PROFITS

THIS NATION WILL NEVER HAVE GUN CONTROL AS THERE ARE SIMPLY TOO MANY FILTHY POLS WHO HAVE TUCKED BIG BRIBES FROM THE GUN MANUFACTURERS, AS FRONTED BY THE NRA

KILLED BY POLICE


According to Killedbypolice.net, at least 808 people have been killed by police so far this year, outpacing last year’s deaths by 20 victims.... and they ALL GET AWAY WITH IT!

"Police in the United States are trained to see the working 

class and poor as a hostile enemy. Anything less than 

complete submissiveness is grounds for officers to unleash

deadly force on their victims. In some instances, even 

the most casual encounters with police have proven to be 

deadly."


Keith Olbermann: NRA Should Be Branded a Terrorist Organization


GQ’s Keith Olbermann called for the National Rifle Association (NRA) to be branded a terrorist organization in the latest video from his The Resistance series.

Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann accused the NRA of “enabling” mass shootings like the recent attack in Vegas, which saw more than 50 dead and more than 500 wounded.
In his latest video as part of his The Resistance series, Olbermann stated that the Second Amendment was originally written in the Constitution “to keep federal government from taking away the right of each state to maintain its own militia.” He claimed that the Amendment has since been modified “into an excuse for why madmen of whatever heritage or political purpose cannot be stopped from carrying at least ten long rifles into a hotel room in Las Vegas and setting up a sniper’s nest and killing people.”
Olbermann claimed that the Second Amendment is outdated and does not take into account modern weaponry. “Keep and bear … do not mean ‘own’–period,” Olbermann said. “The Second Amendment is gun-control from an era where the gun was a musket and not an automatic killing machine that could be bought and stashed on the 32nd floor of a hotel in order to shoot people 500 at a time.” Olbermann also called out President Trump for his reaction to the Vegas shooting, saying, that “warmest condolences” are not sufficient.
Olbermann then called for an end to the NRA and to President Trump, stating:
It is time to end refusing to call mass murderers who do not have obvious political motives “terrorists.” It is time to end the National Rifle Association. And it is time to end the career of any political figure who made his way to the White House dog whistling to his Second Amendment people.
Watch Olbermann’s full statement below:






Las Vegas - Trump's "Warmest Condolences" are not sufficient. The NRA and the dog-whistlers must GO.






Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan or email him at lnolan@breitbart.com.



California Democrat Blames Second Amendment Supporters for Las Vegas Shooting

California State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Paramount) blamed Second Amendment supporters for the mass murder of almost 60 Americans in Las Vegas on Sunday in a statement on Monday.

According to a Facebook post Monday on his official page, Rendon said:
The police say the shooter appeared to have acted alone. That’s not true. Every gun lobbyist and the politicians who do their bidding were all in that room with him. We have to make this stop, and we can with courage and political will. #LasVegas
Calling for stricter gun control after a mass shooting is nothing new for Democrat politicians, but directly blaming supporters of the Second Amendment is one step beyond the norm.  
Shortly after the Las Vegas shooting hit the news wires, Hillary Clinton was roundly criticized for tweeting a much less incendiary attack on gun rights advocates:  
The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots. Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get.
After the San Bernardino terrorist attack in December 2015 that claimed the lives of 14 Californians, Gov. Jerry Brown went on the attack, criticizing Arizona and Nevada’s lenient gun laws (even though the terror suspect used guns purchased under California’s extremely strict gun laws).
The Sacramento Bee reported the heated exchange on December 6th, 2015:
Brown, asked in Paris on Saturday if stricter gun control laws were warranted following the mass shooting in San Bernardino, said, “California has some of the toughest gun control laws of any state. And Nevada and Arizona are wide open, so that’s a gigantic back door through which any terrorist can walk.”
At the time, Nevada’s Republican governor, Brian Sandoval, fired right back through a spokesman:  “This type of political rhetoric is discouraging to hear at a time when all Americans are looking for thoughtful, honest leadership,”
On Monday, Brown issued a much more somber statement in response to the Las Vegas massacre — without the partisan finger-pointing of Rendon’s comment — in the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in American history:
Our prayers and deepest sympathies are with the families and loved ones of those killed and injured in last night’s tragic and senseless shooting and we stand with the people of Nevada in this difficult time.
Nevada governor Sandoval’s reaction is still consistent. Although he has “signed a Declaration of Emergency for Clark County following the mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip,” according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Sandoval is not calling for more gun control, only for less political rhetoric and more prayer:  “We have to stop and pray for the families and for the victims. … There’s not much we can do, but we can learn.”
Tim Donnelly is a former California State Assemblyman and Author, currently on a book tour for his new book: Patriot Not Politician: Win or Go Homeless.  He also ran for governor in 2014.



Stop being a coward to the NRA, President Trump - it’s time to put the rights of people NOT to be shot dead over the rights of lunatics like Stephen Paddock to buy 47 guns and annihilate fellow Americans


'We'll be talking about gun laws as time goes by,' said President Trump yesterday after the Las Vegas massacre.
Will we, Mr President?
With the greatest of respect, I find that promise highly unlikely given your craven support for, and from, the NRA.
When later specifically asked by reporters aboard Air Force One whether he was even open to a discussion about gun control, Trump was less equivocal: 'At some point perhaps that will come. That's not today.'
Not today?
Why not today?
In fact, has there ever been a BETTER day to discuss gun control?
'We¿ll be talking about gun laws as time goes by,¿ said President Trump yesterday. Will we, Mr President? I find that promise unlikely given your craven support for, and from, the NRA. If we can¿t discuss it when nearly 600 people are shot by one man armed with guns he  bought legally ¿ then when CAN we?
'We'll be talking about gun laws as time goes by,' said President Trump yesterday. Will we, Mr President? I find that promise unlikely given your craven support for, and from, the NRA. If we can't discuss it when nearly 600 people are shot by one man armed with guns he bought legally – then when CAN we?
Trump says Las Vegas shooter 'sick,' will discuss gun laws later

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If we can't discuss it when nearly 600 people are shot by one man armed with 23 guns he apparently bought legally – then when CAN we discuss it exactly?
The sickening truth, of course, is that the NRA doesn't ever want us to discuss gun control, and they certainly don't want THEIR President discussing it.
The White House knows this, which is why a spokesman said: 'Let's gather the facts before we make sweeping policy arguments for curtailing the Second Amendment.'
Gather what facts?
We know what happened:
A white 64-year-old American man named Stephen Paddock opened fire on 22,000 people from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel on the Vegas strip.
He fired from a range of legally acquired semi-automatic rifles he had sneaked into his room over several days.
We know what happened. A white  American man  opened fire on 22,000 people from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel on the Vegas strip with a range of legally acquired semi-automatic rifles he had sneaked into his room over several days
We know what happened. A white American man opened fire on 22,000 people from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel on the Vegas strip with a range of legally acquired semi-automatic rifles he had sneaked into his room over several days
Twelve of those rifles were converted to illegal automatic weapons by use of 'bump fire stock', a cheap legal add-on to guns that makes them fire in a far more rapid manner.
A total of 58 people were murdered, and another 527 wounded.
This made it the biggest mass shooting in modern American history, dwarfing anything we've seen before in terms of scale and horror.
If Paddock hadn't, as is believed, run out of ammunition, he would presumably have carried on shooting until police eventually took him out and perhaps slaughtered another few hundred or even thousand people.
The only 'fact' we don't know yet is why he did it.
The facts seem pretty clear. The only thing not clear is why Stephen Paddock did it
The facts seem pretty clear. The only thing not clear is why Stephen Paddock did it
But the rest of the facts seem pretty bloody clear to me.
So forgive me, Mr President, but I think this is absolutely the right moment to be discussing this.
Trump and I have debated guns on numerous occasions.
The last time was in March, 2016, during an interview for ITV.
It was four months after the multiple terror attacks in Paris at a sports stadium, music venue and several bars and restaurants, that killed 130 people.
'You are firmly in favour of Second Amendment rights,' I told Trump, 'the right to bear arms. I have obviously had a position against that but I'm not an American citizen. If you were President of the United States, what would you do to try and reduce the level of gun violence in America, which we both, I'm sure, would admit is completely unacceptable?'
'It's really one of the things on which we disagree and are very much on opposite sides,' Trump replied. 'I will say this though; Paris has among the strictest gun laws in world. You had these thugs going in there shooting people and there wasn't another gun in the room, they had all the guns. If you had a few people standing on the other side of that room that had guns to their waist or guns wrapped around their ankle it wouldn't have been the same thing, Piers. One, it might not of happened at all because people would have said there are guns in there I'm not going to go there, and two, if it did happen, at least you'd have bullets going the opposite direction.'
Trump added: 'That's a hard one for you to debate and I don't want to debate it with you because I think it's unfair.'
I don't find it a hard one to debate at all.
'America has more guns than any other country and more gun violence,' I retorted. 'We have 35 gun deaths a year in Britain, America has 85 a day. So there appears to be a correlation between volume of guns in society and the amount of gun violence. I come back to my question: If you were President, what would do to reduce the level of gun violence in America?'
'OK,' Trump replied. 'There is a tremendous mental health problem in the United States and remember, it's the person that pulls the trigger, it's not the trigger that pulls itself. If you look at some of the school shootings, the movie shootings, these were mentally ill people that should have been institutionalised. That is one of the big factors.'
This to-and-fro with Trump revealed the three basic tenets about guns so beloved by the NRA and so prevalent among tens, if not hundreds, of millions of Americans:
1) If you have guns, other people are less likely to use them against you.
2) If someone fires a gun, it is safer if everyone else in the vicinity has guns to fire back – and uses them.
3) Guns aren't the problem, crazy people are the problem.
But the massacre in Las Vegas utterly destroys those arguments, doesn't it?
Dozens of people in the area that night had guns, from armed police officers and security guards to members of the public who are legally allowed to open-carry guns in Nevada. None of them was able to stop Paddock because how do you stop a guy firing rifles down on a crowd from the 32nd floor of a hotel?
Moreover, if everyone in that audience had been armed with their own guns and used them, can you even begin to imagine the carnage that would have erupted? It was 11pm, it was dark, it was teeming with people. 
Imagine 22,000 guns going off at the same time, nobody sure where to even fire.. the death toll would have been a hundred times as high.
And yes, it's true that most people who commit this kind of mass shooting are mentally ill. How could they not be? But we have a lot of mentally ill people in Britain, as does every country. The difference is that those people can't legally get their hands on semi-automatic weapons, so they can't execute their evil intent to anything on this scale.
So of course, the real problem IS the gun.
It is absolutely incredible to me that Stephen Paddock was able to build up a legal arsenal of 47 firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition, and all the bump fire stock he needed to turn his rifles into machine guns.
The real problem IS the gun. Stephen Paddock was able to build up a legal arsenal of 47 firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition, and all the bump fire stock he needed to turn his rifles into machine guns. He bought over 30 of the guns this year alone - some here, at a 'Guns & Guitars' shop in Mesquite
The real problem IS the gun. Stephen Paddock was able to build up a legal arsenal of 47 firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition, and all the bump fire stock he needed to turn his rifles into machine guns. He bought over 30 of the guns this year alone - some here, at a 'Guns & Guitars' shop in Mesquite
It was reported today that he bought over 30 of the guns this year alone. Yet if you buy no more than two at a time, there is no federal limit on the number you can amass.
This enabled Paddock to turn himself into Rambo without a single red flag ever being signalled to the numerous gun stores he visited.
As America goes through its usual meaningless Groundhog Day style hand-wringing over this latest mass shooting, I want to offer some concrete proposals to at least try to stop these appalling incidents happening again.
First, I accept it's not practical to ban all guns in America, there are simply too many of them. But nobody has ever given me a sensible reason why a civilian should own a semi-automatic rifle like an AR-15 that can fire up to 40-50 bullets a minute. I refuse to believe the Founding Fathers would have ever countenanced civilians owning guns like this. That is not what the 2nd Amendment was ever about. 
These rifles are the preferred weapon of choice for many mass shooters because they're light, easy-to-use and can be easily adapted into machine guns. So ban them. That would still leave Americans with over 2000 different varieties of gun to own. Yes, 2000.
BAN all bump stock.  Its sole purpose is to turn legal guns into illegal ones. How does that make any sense? This file photo shows a 'bump' stock next to a disassembled .22-caliber rifle, in effect it converts semiautomatic firearms into fully automatic ones
BAN all bump stock. Its sole purpose is to turn legal guns into illegal ones. How does that make any sense? This file photo shows a 'bump' stock next to a disassembled .22-caliber rifle, in effect it converts semiautomatic firearms into fully automatic ones
Second, ban all bump fire stock too. Its sole purpose is to turn legal guns into illegal ones. How does that make any sense?
Third, restrict all gun magazines and clips to a maximum of ten bullets. No civilian ever needs more than that for self-protection or hunting. Make it impossible for these mass shooters to fire so many bullets so fast.
Fourth, restrict the number of guns any civilian can own to five. Nobody, surely, needs more than that? And restrict ammunition ownership too, to prevent such vast stockpiles being created.
I have some concrete proposals - including two restricting all gun magazines and clips to a maximum of ten bullets and restrict the number of guns any civilian can own to five. And nobody has ever given me a sensible reason why a civilian should own a semi-automatic rifle like an AR-15 that can fire up to 40-50 bullets a minute
I have some concrete proposals - including two restricting all gun magazines and clips to a maximum of ten bullets and restrict the number of guns any civilian can own to five. And nobody has ever given me a sensible reason why a civilian should own a semi-automatic rifle like an AR-15 that can fire up to 40-50 bullets a minute
Fifth, introduce universal background checks on ALL gun purchases, and make them detailed. Why would anyone want a criminal or mentally ill person to buy a gun? Yet 40% of all guns traded at US gun fares are done so with no checks at all. It's utter madness. Most polls say 90% of Americans support universal background checks, so this should not even be contentious.
Sixth, tackle America's mental health problem head on by dramatically reducing the ridiculous over-medication of the population. Paddock was apparently put on Valium for anxiety a few months ago. Did that play a part in sending him over the edge? Who knows…but I do know it's almost impossible to find ANY American now who isn't needlessly popping pills for some reason. That is worsening, not improving mental health.
Tackle the mental health problem in America. Require universal background checks. This massacre happened on YOUR watch Mr. President
Tackle the mental health problem in America. Require universal background checks. This massacre happened on YOUR watch Mr. President
None of these suggestions is an infringement of an American's rights to bear arms. You can still have a gun if you want one.
But what they will infringe is a person's ability to commit mass murder with the ease that Paddock was able to do so.
After Vegas, new gun control laws must not just be discussed, they must be strengthened.
This is YOUR call, President Trump. This happened on YOUR watch.
Silence, apathy and kicking this can down the road are not an option.
Cowardice in the face of the NRA's disgusting and ruthlessly commercial bullyboy tactics is not an option.
Waiting for the next Stephen Paddock to open fire on a crowd of Americans is not an option.
It's time to put the rights of your fellow citizens not to be shot dead over the rights of men like Paddock to buy 47 guns and annihilate a crowd of country music fans.



Left to die among a field of beer bottles, flip flops and cowboy hats: Horrifying photo show dozens of bodies strewn across concert venue in the aftermath of Vegas massacre



  • WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT 

  • A photo has surfaced showing dozens of bodies strewn across the outdoor Las Vegas concert venue where Stephen Paddock killed 58 on Sunday 

  • The concertgoers were left to die among a field of crushed beer cans and abandoned flip-flops and cowboy hats 

  • Meanwhile, another recently released video shows the panicked crowd fleeing the field 

  • The 64-year-old gunman opened fire on the Route 91 Harvest Festival from his room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay before committing suicide 

  • Shooting eclipsed the Pulse nightclub massacre as the deadliest in U.S. history 
Dozens of lifeless bodies scatter the outdoor Las Vegas concert venue where Stephen Paddock unleashed a firestorm of bullets Sunday night, in one of the most horrifying pictures to emerge from the massacre. 
The bodies sit amid a litter of debris including beer cans, water bottles and even cowboy hats and flip flops - lost by their owners in the ensuing stampede.  
A few of the limp bodies rest alone, while others are coupled up - suggesting friends that died at the same time. In one corner of the image, a large group of bodies are heaped together.
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Scroll down for video 
A horrifying video has emerged, showing dozens of lifeless bodies scattering the Las Vegas field where Stephen Paddock killed 58 on Sunday
A horrifying video has emerged, showing dozens of lifeless bodies scattering the Las Vegas field where Stephen Paddock killed 58 on Sunday
Nearby, groups of survivors duck for cover behind a fence. Some lay on top of loved ones to offer protection. 
One girl, wearing cowboy boots, crouches and looks up at the camera - a look of fear in her eyes.  
In the distance, the hotels of the Las Vegas strip - including the Luxor, Excalibur and New York New York casinos - cast a fluorescent light on the field of death.
Fifty-nine people were killed in the shooting and 527 were injured - making it the most deadly shooting in U.S. history.  
Meanwhile, another video has surfaced showing the panicked concertgoers evacuating the field after gunfire rang out. 
Newly released footage also shows the panicked concertgoers fleeing the field after the gunshots rang out on Sunday
Newly released footage also shows the panicked concertgoers fleeing the field after the gunshots rang out on Sunday
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The video, which appears to be taken from the Coca Cola VIP area in the rear of the field, shows the masses running for cover. 
By then it appears that the crowd had realized that the gunfire was coming from the Mandalay Bay hotel, and started running away from it over a fence on the left side of the stage and to the rear of the field.  
At first, some confused concertgoers had actually streamed out of an exit to the right of the stage - directly towards the shooter in Mandalay. 


'Nowhere is immune': Security experts reveal Las Vegas high-rise shooting is a nightmare scenario that's almost impossible to prevent


Cops in big cities with many high rise buildings, such as New York, Chicago and Austin, are seeking to reassure residents that they are safe after Stephen Craig Paddock, 64, killed 58 and injured more than 500 in a Sunday night bloodbath.
Vegas massacre survivors have repeatedly compared the gunman's attack on revelers at the Route 91 Harvest Festival to shooting fish in a barrel.
And security experts and top cops alike have been forced to admit that no amount of training and preparation can prevent someone 'intent on doing harm'.
Security experts reveal Las Vegas high-rise shooting is a nightmare scenario that's almost impossible to prevent (drapes billow out of broken windows at the Mandalay Bay  out of which Paddock fired down on the crowd on Sunday)
Security experts reveal Las Vegas high-rise shooting is a nightmare scenario that's almost impossible to prevent (drapes billow out of broken windows at the Mandalay Bay  out of which Paddock fired down on the crowd on Sunday)
Security experts and top cops alike have been forced to admit that no amount of training and preparation can prevent someone 'intent on doing harm'. (First responders and bystanders carry an injured person to an emergency station during the Vegas mass shooting)
Security experts and top cops alike have been forced to admit that no amount of training and preparation can prevent someone 'intent on doing harm'. (First responders and bystanders carry an injured person to an emergency station during the Vegas mass shooting)
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'They will find a way to do it,' said David Katz, CEO of Global Security Group, which conducts active-shooter training around the world.
'The answer only really is, if there's a sniper, there's a counter-sniper.'
But 'you're not going to be able to deploy police units with sniper capabilities everywhere,' Katz said. 'There are, at some point, too many things going on, too many opportunities to stop them all.'
New York City's police boss says that regularly includes sharpshooters with binoculars on rooftops scanning nearby building windows for potential threats, helicopters circling above with snipers of their own, and detectives making security sweeps of nearby hotels.
But he too acknowledged there is only so much that can be done.
Heart-pounding bodycam as police search for Las Vegas shooter
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The Las Vegas mass shooting, where the gunman opened fire on a festival crowd from his 32nd floor window, is the sort of nightmare scenario which is almost impossible to prevent, security experts say (Secret Service snipers keep watch from the roof of the 9/ 11 Memorial Museum in 2011)
The Las Vegas mass shooting, where the gunman opened fire on a festival crowd from his 32nd floor window, is the sort of nightmare scenario which is almost impossible to prevent, security experts say (Secret Service snipers keep watch from the roof of the 9/ 11 Memorial Museum in 2011)
New York City's police boss says preventative measures include sharpshooters with binoculars on rooftops scanning nearby building windows for threats (a New York police officer uses binoculars while keeping watch from a rooftop along Times Square during New Year's Eve celebrations in 2015)
New York City's police boss says preventative measures include sharpshooters with binoculars on rooftops scanning nearby building windows for threats (a New York police officer uses binoculars while keeping watch from a rooftop along Times Square during New Year's Eve celebrations in 2015)
The Las Vegas shooting from a high-rise hotel that killed dozens of people in a packed concert below has forced other cities to examine their tactics for dealing with this kind of nightmare scenario ( Dec. 31, 2015, people gather at Times Square during New Year's Eve celebrations in New York)
The Las Vegas shooting from a high-rise hotel that killed dozens of people in a packed concert below has forced other cities to examine their tactics for dealing with this kind of nightmare scenario ( Dec. 31, 2015, people gather at Times Square during New Year's Eve celebrations in New York)
'We do understand,' said NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill, 'that no city or town in this country is completely immune to such unbridled hatred.'
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, whose son will be among the 45,000 runners in the city's annual marathon Sunday, said emergency officials, including federal authorities, have conducted roughly a dozen workshops to talk through various scenarios and Chicago is prepared for 'any eventuality.'
'People don't just show up on marathon day and decide to run 26 miles. They train all year,' Emanuel said. 'That's also true of the Chicago police.'
Despite assurances of a heavy police presence at this weekend's Austin City Limits music festival, expected to draw 75,000 people a day to the city's downtown, organizers were offering refunds to anyone uncomfortable with attending following the Las Vegas shooting.
A sniper team stands watch during a visit by the Prime Minister of India to the National September 11 Memorial, in New York in 2014 
A sniper team stands watch during a visit by the Prime Minister of India to the National September 11 Memorial, in New York in 2014 
Perhaps the most stark example of the crowd-building dynamic is in New York, where the city's 36,000-officer department regularly goes on high alert for such events as the New Year's Eve Times Square celebration, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, Monday's Columbus Day parade, even some Yankees games.
For such events, the NYPD puts officers with body armor and high-powered weapons around the perimeter, sharpshooters on nearby rooftops to scan the windows of other buildings for threats, and cops with bullhorns on the streets instructing gawkers in nearby buildings to keep their windows closed.
They also have detectives ramp up security sweeps at hotels, particularly ahead of the holiday season. And the NYPD has a program to train thousands of private businesses and employees, from housekeeping staff to security, on how to spot explosives or tell a golf bag from a gun case.
David C. Kelly, associate managing director K2 Intelligence and the former assistant commissioner for counterterrorism at the NYPD, said the shooting forces private security and law enforcement alike to give more regular events treatment usually reserved for special occasions like a president or a pope's visit.
'It's a big ask, but maybe that's what needs to be done now,' Kelly said. 'It's forcing law enforcement to look at this in three dimensions, the car in the crowd, the bomb in the backpack, now the assault from the air.'

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