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Moms Demand Action: Teaching Gun Safety to School Children Is ‘Atrocious’

Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America deputy director Jennifer Hoppe says news that Forest Hills Elementary School teaches a gun safety course to kindergarteners—then repeats it to those same students again when they are in third grade—is “atrocious” and a “disingenious” way for adults to dodge the responsibility they face for owning guns.

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All Talk: Fewer Gun Crime Prosecutions Under Obama than George W. Bush

Syracuse University’s TRAC Reports recently revealed that Obama’s tough talk about increasing prosecution of federal gun laws was just that—talk. In fact, Obama’s annual prosecution of gun crimes has never reached the levels of prosecutions seen during George W. Bush’s last five years in office.

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Poll Shows NRA Far More Popular Than Obama or Clinton

Gallup’s latest poll finds the much-demonized National Rifle Association with far higher approval ratings than two of its most prominent assailants: President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. The NRA had a 58 percent approval rating, far higher than Obama’s 45 percent or Clinton’s 41 percent.

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Hillary Clinton Views ‘Republicans’ as ‘Enemies’

During Tuesday night’s Democrat debate, frontrunner Hillary Clinton proudly claimed that she viewed both the NRA and Republicans as her enemies. The moment occurred in the waning moments of the CNN debate after moderator Anderson Cooper posed the following question

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Obama Mocks Second Amendment Supporters For ’Crack Pot Conspiracy Theories’

President Obama described gun rights supporters as “absolutists” who denounced gun control as “somehow an assault on freedom or communistic or a plot by me to, you know, take over and stay in power forever or something.” “I mean, there are all kinds of crack pot conspiracy theories that float around there,” he continued. “Some of which by the way are ratified by elected officials in the other party on occasion.”

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NRA Targets 2016 Elections, Raising Massive War Chest

Leaders of the National Rifle Association of America plan an unprecedented year-long election campaign to protect the Second Amendment and America’s gun-owning heritage, Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre and his chief lobbyist Chris Cox informed the NRA board of directors at their Fall 2015 meeting last week in Virginia.

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