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Why don’t people go to jail and responsible entities suffer crushing penalties for neglecting to follow gun sale laws???? Nothing happens. Why doesn’t each individual who dropped Cruz lose their job and pay penalties??? I don’t understand.

For example, take the most popular conspiracy theory of recent times—the official account for the crimes of 9/11.

This theory was produced by mythologist Philip Zelikow, who, before the investigation began, created an outline that was kept secret from his own Commission staff. Zelikow’s outline determined the outcome of the investigation before any facts were examined. Moreover, the 9/11 Commission claimed sixty-three times in its report that it could find “no evidence” related to important aspects of the crimes. Evidence that the Commission did rely on, as a basis for its report, was later found to be false. Similarly, the evidence collected and held secret by World Trade Center investigating agency NIST was later found to contradict the agency’s conclusions. Much of that evidence is still being held secret including the computer model data that NIST was forced to substitute for physical testing that contradicted its conclusions.

https://digwithin.net/2018/02/11/the-problem-with-conspiracy-theories/

We don't care.

The National Rifle Association spent $31 million on the 2016 presidential election, $11.4 million in support of Donald Trump and $19.8 million in opposition to Hillary Clinton. It was money well-spent, it seems. Trump’s repeatedly demonstrated loyalty to the NRA’s agenda since being elected and even his recent protestations about new constraints on gun sales have been tempered with assurances that NRA leaders are good, patriotic people.
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This is essential. Red America is gun country. More to the point, Trump country is gun country.
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Trump country is gun country because rural America is gun country, and rural America is Trump country.

This suggests that the NRA probably didn’t drive gun owners to support Trump in any broad sense; those voters were already there. To some extent they, like others, capitalized on Trump’s appeal to working-class whites across the country. It was more a symbiotic relationship than is often presented, since Trump was a Republican nominee who held real appeal to rural voters.

There’s a deeper implication here. Trump’s willingness to consider new gun regulations might, if Congress were to agree with him, force a confrontation between the NRA and the president. If the NRA brought gun owners to Trump, they can pressure those gun owners to keep Trump from acting. If the NRA was largely following rural America’s lead in 2016, though, its political position is much more precarious.

Al of the guns will be taken away after the Russian takeover. I guess they are hoping they will be in charge of the gulags and get state issued guns.

We've had our share of these folks up here in Canada and I expect that's the case in most or all countries.

Good Lord but aren't you the ultra-emotional Gaul?

Was any NRA official or spokesperson in the school building killing students?

Washington (CNN) -- US Cyber Command chief Adm. Mike Rogers told lawmakers on Tuesday that he has not been granted the authority by President Donald Trump to disrupt Russian election hacking operations where they originate.

Asked by Democratic Sen. Jack Reed if he has been directed by the President, through the defense secretary, to confront Russian cyber operators at the source, Rogers said "no I have not" but noted that he has tried to work within the authority he maintains as a commander.

While he did not agree with Reed's characterization that the US has been "sitting back and waiting," Rogers admitted that it is fair to say that "we have not opted to engage in some of the same behaviors we are seeing" with regards to Russia.

"It has not changed the calculus or the behavior on behalf of the Russians," Rogers said about the US response to Russia's cyber threat to date.
"They have not paid a price that is sufficient to change their behavior," he added.

Reed, D-Rhode Island, also asked FBI Director Christopher Wray, earlier this month whether the efforts to counter Russia's election activities in 2018 had been directed by Trump.

"Not as specifically directed by the President," Wray responded during a hearing at the Senate Intelligence Committee.

On Tuesday, Rogers reiterated that he still views Moscow as a threat to the 2018 elections, a stance that is consistent with what he and other top national security officials told the Senate Intelligence Committee earlier this month.

"We expect Russia to continue using propaganda, social media, false-flag personas, sympathetic spokesmen and other means to influence, to try to build on its wide range of operations and exacerbate social and political fissures in the United States," Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats previously testified.

"There should be no doubt that Russia perceives its past efforts as successful and views the 2018 US midterm elections as a potential target for Russian influence operations," he said.

But that conclusion appears at odds with Trump's repeated dismissals of Russian election meddling.