Trump The Mad King
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- Feb 18, 2018
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What demented sick bastards, just a few months ago they were supporting a child molester for senate , now this and like Pavlov's dogs their rank and file trash repeats it
"The conservative movement has two new enemies: the FBI and the survivors of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida. At far-right Gateway Pundit, Lucian Wintrich managed to package them into one stark raving headline, casting aspersions on 17-year-old survivor David Hogg by noting his father is a retired FBI agent, and accusing him of having been coached on "anti-Trump lines" due to being suspiciously articulate and repeating himself a few times in a taped interview.
Before I explain what's going on, just consider the depravity of Wintrich's smear for a moment. It's a dizzying demonstration of the moral abomination the conservative propaganda machine has become.
conservatives dealt with this the same way they deal with everything: by dreaming up an unhinged conspiracy theory. Suddenly, conservatives from Sean Hannity on down began braying that the FBI — composed overwhelmingly of middle-aged Republican men who furiously despised Hillary Clinton, and whose major significant electoral action was then-director James Comey giving Trump a huge leg up a week before election day — was part of a Deep State conspiracy to undermine the president."
Conservatives are now attacking survivors of school shootings
If a “kid” is going to be used and put on a stage for a political attack, then you are damn right we will fire back against the absurd argument.
Dems like trying to use “human shields” like high school kids and Gold Star families to launch their attacks from. That way they can scream about us being big meanies when we shoot their argument down.
It's a "political attack" for these kids to want AR-15s banned so that their schools are safer? Only in your deranged, evil mind is that a "political attack".
President Bill Clinton signed an Assault Weapons Ban in 1994, that did not prevent the Columbine School Massacre in 1999.
Federal Assault Weapons Ban - Wikipedia
Columbine High School massacre - Wikipedia
No, but mass shootings did decline significantly from 1994 - 2004.
Not according to the government.
This article states that the number of mass shootings decreased from 1994 to 2004:
Did the Assault Weapons Ban Work? | HuffPost
In this study of 108 mass shootings, 92 of them occurred before the assault weapons ban, and after it as well, with only 16 mass shootings in the ten years in which we had an assault weapons ban. If you divide those by the number of years (34 for non-ban years and 10 for ban years), you find that we had 2.71 shootings per year in non-ban years, and 1.6 shootings per ban year. That means we had 1.69 times as many mass shootings in non-ban years.
![](https://images.huffingtonpost.com/2016-04-20-1461173795-9577688-MassShootings1973to2015Table-thumb.jpg)
Let’s break it down by the timing of the shooting. Before the assault weapons ban, there were 2.04 mass shootings per year (1973-1994). So the ban did reduce the number of mass shootings.
What’s even more frightening is what happened in the 11 years after the assault weapons ban was allowed by the GOP Congress to expire. We had 46 mass shootings per year from 2005 to 2015, or 4.18 mass shootings per year. That’s more than 2.61 times as many mass shootings as when we had the assault weapons ban.