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To these amazing kids and this new generation: I’m sorry our own politicians didn’t do their jobs and stand up for you. And yet, you are making it happen.

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After a significant year for the gun control movement in 2018, momentum for stricter firearms laws in states across the country likely will accelerate this year.

Political clout doesn’t guarantee a healthy bottom line.

A recent presidential export policy directive, in fact, specifically instructs American diplomats to put special effort into promoting arms sales, effectively turning them into agents for the country’s largest weapons makers.

I’m for stricter gun regulations. I’m also a 2nd Amendment guy on the left. I worry about the armed militias of the right, and how to defend innocent life. We have to begin breaking down all versions of 'the other.’ We need to change a deepening death culture?

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Oliver North Worked With Cocaine Traffickers to Arm Terrorists. Now He’ll Be President of the NRA.