Just another day in paradise compliments of Republican extremism.

February 27, 2020
By Adrianna Rodriguez and Gina Barton

The Journal Sentinel, (click here) citing a police source, said the shooter was armed with two handguns, including one with a silencer. The make and model of the weapons remained unknown Thursday.

Silencers or suppressors are legal in 42 states, including Wisconsin, but must be registered under the National Firearms Act. More than 29,000 are registered in the Badger State, the Journal Sentinel reported.

Milwaukee - The city of Milwaukee (click here) was in mourning a day after a brewery employee fatally shot five people at the city's Molson Coors campus before killing himself Wednesday in one of the worst mass shootings in Wisconsin history.

The alleged gunman was identified as Anthony N. Ferrill, 51, who had worked as an electrician for more than 20 years, according to a law enforcement source who spoke to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and online employment records.

Mayor Tom Barrett called it the "saddest day" in the 165-year history of the iconic "Miller Valley," where a massive red Miller sign towers over a sprawling complex that includes one of the nation's largest breweries and packaging and distribution centers.

Hours before the rampage, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers called on lawmakers to take up legislation aimed at keeping guns away from people who are dangerous.

In response, state Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, a Republican, made it clear that Wisconsin's gun laws would not change under a Republican-controlled Legislature....

Jesus Valle Jr., 33 of Milwaukee
Gennady Levshetz, 61, of Mequon
Trevor Wetselaar, 33, of Milwaukee
Dana Walk, 57, of Delafield
Dale Hudson, 50, of Waukesha

Moscow Mitch knows mass shootings are such a small number in the statistics there is just no way reason for legislation. Some lives are just expendable for the sake of the cronies. Nothing else really makes the news in the way mass shootings do, so that is further reason to let the issue disappear.

UC Davis Health (click here)

February 27, 2020
By Matthew Daly

Washington, DC - Frustrated Democrats (click here) again lambasted Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell Thursday as they marked a year of Senate inaction since the House passed landmark gun control legislation.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi acknowledged that Democrats have been here before — complaining about McConnell's “legislative graveyard" — but she said Democrats were energized to “accelerate a drumbeat” on calls for McConnell to allow a Senate vote on a House-passed bill to expand background checks for gun purchases.

McConnell's name came up repeatedly at a raucous House ceremony marking the one-year anniversary of the House bill. Speaking a day after a gunman killed five people at a Milwaukee brewery, Pelosi said McConnell was giving new meaning to his self-described nickname as the “grim reaper” of Democratic legislation.

“It's very sad that the Grim Reaper has decided that more people will die because he is the Grim Reaper,'' Pelosi said. ”One hundred people a day die from gun violence. Not all of them could be saved by this legislation, but many could.''...

Ya gotta die of something. 2015 through 2019 saw a marked increase of gun violence deaths. It has yet to stop or even level off.

December 13, 2018
By Niall McCarthy

According to data (click here) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 40,000 people died in shootings across the United States in 2017, the highest number in 20 years. The data takes into account deaths classified as unintentional, suicide, homicide, undetermined and legal intervention/operations of war.

That trend was driven by a steady rise in suicides involving firearms The U.S. now has 12 deaths per 100,000 people due to guns compared to 0.2 per 100,000 people in Japan, 0.3 in the UK and 0.9 in Germany....

The "Stand Your Ground" laws which include the "Castle Doctrine" were first passed in 2005 in Florida. In the chart above, the number of Americans that died of gun violence began to rise in 2005. What is slightly more interesting is the FACT the Assault Weapons Ban was sun-downed by a Republican president in 2004.

I think that is really interesting. The Assault Weapons Ban is sun-downed by a Republican in 2004 and by 2005 ALEC was legislating loose gun laws in 2005. That took no time at all to increase the firearms sales, too. The graph below is from the AFT.

The bar graph (click here) depicts the number of NFA firearms processed from applications captured in the NFRTR by Fiscal Year from FY 2005 to FY 2018.  The number of NFA firearms the NFA Division processed were: 147,484 NFA firearms in FY 2005; 296,127 NFA firearms in FY 2006; 563,127 NFA firearms in FY 2007; 981,303 NFA firearms in FY 2008; 834,328 NFA firearms in FY 2009; 828,462 NFA firearms in FY 2010; 992,975 NFA firearms in FY 2011; 1,112,041 NFA firearms in FY 2012; 1,152,163 NFA firearms in FY 2013; 1,383,677 NFA firearms in FY 2014; 1,426,211 NFA Firearms in FY 2015; 2,538,397 NFA Firearms in FY 2016; 1,607,952 NFA Firearms in FY 2017; and 1,422,353 NFA Firearms in FY 2018. 

Ammoland has it broken down by type of gun sold. It all adds up to one thing, the number of guns sold was dependent on changing the gun laws in the USA as of 2004. 

July 3, 2019

GREENVILLE, SC, USA & HALIFAX, NS, CANADA -  Small Arms Analytics (click here) & Forecasting (SAAF) estimates June 2019 firearms sales at 973,500 units, a year-over-year increase of 3.8% from June 2018.

Likely single handgun sales (544,807) increased year-over-year by 4.0% and single long-gun sales (322,033) decreased year-over-year by 0.1%. All other likely firearms sales (106,660) increased year-over-year by 16.9%. This includes so-called “multiple” sales where the allocation between handguns and long-guns cannot be determined from the data record....

The Sandy Hook shootings occurred in 2012 (click here). There were 14 mass shootings in 2016, including the Pulse night club shooting. The gun industry goes into overtime after high profile killings of Americans through gun violence.

The moral role of the federal government is to end this level of danger in the American society. I think the Republicans have had 16 years to prove having more guns on the street reduces American deaths. They can't. The fact of the matter is the less guns are regulated, the more American deaths occur. That is a fact and there are enormous amount of data to prove it.

Republicans have lead the USA in many majorities and presidents since 2000 and the USA is not a better country for the obstructionist agenda of Moscow Mitch. Who does he think he is helping besides his own interests?

Why am I not surprised?

Donald Trump's middle name is COMPROMISED. He is compromised by Russia, his lousy attitude about Americans and his chronic and constant egotistic lies.

This is a COMPROMISE TO USA NATIONAL SECURITY!

USA national security is not guns and war only, it is the relationships we build with other countries that protect the people of this country. I am not at all surprised this news is coming from still yet another Whistleblower, either. 

Donald "Compromised" Trump should be letting people know all along the way that the country may be more susceptible to Covid-17 than originally thought. Did he come to the country so the people can prepare? No, he kept silent because he might actually have to take ownership of a wrongful process in preventing disease from reaching USA shores.

THE ONLY THING HE THINKS ABOUT IS POLITICS AND HOW HE NEEDS TO WIN THE NEXT ELECTION. NO ONE OR ANYTHING IS IMPORTANT OTHER THAN HIS OWN INTERESTS.

If that isn't enough of Trump's KOMPROMAT, Turkey (click here) had a surprise attack from Russia today. Syrian children are dying of the cold and what does Putin do, attacks the very people he should be helping. Since when has Turkey been a problem to Russia? The entire past year Erdogan (click here) has done nothing but kiss Putin's behind and without the assistance of Trump.

I want to know from the Erdogan are the S-400 missiles preventing the invasion of Russia?

The Trump administration is a complete failure and Senate Republicans endorse the failure he continues to be.

February 27, 2020
By Lena H. Sun and Yasmeen Abutaleb

Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services (click here) sent more than a dozen workers to receive the first Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, without proper training for infection control or appropriate protective gear, according to a whistleblower complaint.

The workers did not show symptoms of infection and were not tested for the virus, according to lawyers for the whistleblower, a senior HHS official based in Washington who oversees workers at the Administration for Children and Families, a unit within HHS.

The whistleblower is seeking federal protection, alleging she was unfairly and improperly reassigned after raising concerns about the safety of these workers to HHS officials, including those within the office of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar. She was told Feb. 19 that if she does not accept the new position in 15 days, which is March 5, she would be terminated....