Several weeks before Omar Mateen would massacre more than 50 individuals at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, wary gun shop employees turned Mateen away from their store and notified the FBI. The gun shop told the feds that Mateen was acting very suspiciously and asking questions that raised alarm. ABC Reports: Robert Abell, a…
Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) went on Morning Joe earlier today to discuss increased gun regulations in response to the Orlando shooting. In addition to calling for mandatory background checks, Manchin also came out in favor of prohibiting people on the terrorist watch list or no-fly list from purchasing guns. He stated “Can’t we say that…
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) said yesterday that gun control measures wouldn’t have stopped the Orlando mass shooting. Proposed gun control measures would strip people on the FBI’s terrorist watch list of their 2nd Amendment rights; However, Paul said those measures wouldn’t have stopped Omar Mateen from killing fifty people. “It wouldn’t have stopped the Orlando killer…
Should people on the no-fly list be allowed to legally buy a gun? At first, it may sound like a no-brainer to keep guns away from accused terrorists. However, innocent people do end up on the no-fly list and other terrorist watch lists. How? According to a Huffington Post article, here are 7 ways that someone could…
By Juliegrace Brufke House Democrats held a meeting Wednesday to discuss the threat of “violent extremism on America’s public lands,” just a few days after a Muslim man shot up a gay nightclub in the name of the Islamic State. Democrats alleged the GOP is not doing enough to prevent “violent extremism on America’s public lands,”…
By Michael Bastasch Harvey Silverglate, a renowned civil rights attorney and former president of the American Civil Liberties Union in Massachusetts, called investigations of global warming skeptics by state attorneys general “pure harassment.” “It is outrageous for any law enforcement official to be seeking to win this battle for minds by flexing law enforcement muscle…
By Blake Neff Obama administration officials have recommended giving the “death penalty” to the nation’s largest for-profit college accreditor. The decision could affect over 800,000 students at about 900 different campuses, which would lose access to federal student loans if the death sentence becomes a reality. In a devastating 29-page report issued Wednesday, officials with the Department of…
By Chris White Islamic terrorist Omar Mateen appeared in a 2012 documentary attacking BP over the energy company’s 2010 oil spill, where he can be heard ranting and raving against the company’s supposed corruption. “Everybody’s just, get out to get paid,” he said in the documentary called “The Big Fix,” according to CBS News. “They’re like hoping for…
By Eric Lieberman Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg responded to users’ inquiries during his first ever live Q&A session Tuesday at the Menlo Park headquarters, expressing that telepathic ‘sharing’ could be what’s next for the social media conglomerate. Zuckerberg said of the future of Facebook: “You’re going to just be able to capture a thought, what you’re thinking or feeling in kind…
A new report from the Drug Policy Alliance and the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies is taking the federal Drug Enforcement Administration to task for some four decades of obstruction when it comes to scientific research on cannabis. Soon after the Controlled Substances Act became law in the early 1970’s, activists began petitioning the DEA to…