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The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents -- men who never think of lending a shilling to their next-door neighbors, for purposes of honest industry, unless upon the most ample security, and at the highest rate of interest -- stand ready, at all times, to lend money in unlimited amounts to those robbers and murderers, who call themselves governments, to be expended in shooting down those who do not submit quietly to being robbed and enslaved. – Lysander Spooner	added by Normando 5 months ago
I think that we need an emergency response because we’re facing a crisis situation … we need the help from our national leaders because we’re in a state where the only action that our colleagues took in response to the mass shooting in Nashville was to expel the two youngest Black lawmakers and then to pass a law to protect gun manufacturers. – Justin Jones	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This kind of hateful rhetoric from an elected official is exactly why tragedies such as the Covenant Christian School shooting in Nashville occurred. – Freedom Caucus	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Nobody can tell us if the roles were reversed, and you had a Black man shoot a White 16-year-old teenager for merely ringing his doorbell that he would not be arrested, i mean, this citizen went home and slept in his bed at night after shooting that young Black kid in the head. – Susan Pfannmuller/AP Crump	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Hundreds of people were in the park at the time of the shooting when someone started shooting into the crowd, hitting at least six people. – Paul Humphrey	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They actually had to pass a shooting test. So, you went to a shooting range and you had to make 11 out of 20 shots on a target in front of an instructor. – Jennifer Mascia	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Last year, I survived a workplace shooting. And now yesterday, I’ve lost a very close friend in another workplace shooting. – Craig Greenberg	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I represent 78,000 people, and when I came to the well that day, I was not standing for myself, i was standing for those young people … many of whom can’t even vote yet, many of whom are disenfranchised. But all of whom are terrified by the continued trend of mass shooting plaguing our state and plaguing this nation. – Justin Jones	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s morally insane that a week after a mass shooting took six precious lives in my community here in Nashville, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, their first action is not to take actions to rein in this proliferation of weapons of war in our streets, but it’s to expel their colleagues for standing with our constituents. – Justin Jones of Nashville	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I watched a colleague of mine try a shooting case where someone got shot, so he’s able to try those very serious violent crimes and then switch, maybe someone who was a serial shoplifter and then charged with grand larceny and is in mental health treatment court because they had mental health issues, he was able to handle the wide range of cases and do them all fairly. – Brendan Tracy	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is where we are at, we have children living through multiple mass shooting (incidents). What are we doing? – Ashbey Beasley	Found on CNN 1 year ago
That suspect vehicle then began shooting at that victim vehicle, striking multiple juveniles. – Byron Thomas	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We just squatted down there and waited there until the shooting stopped, and then after some time they brought out the first kid that was an obvious DOA. – Amanda Shoemake	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It sounded like they were shooting outside, so everyone started running back in, then when everyone tried to exit again, it got crazy. – Atiya Holley	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Americans are tired of fearing if they or their families will be the next victims of a mass shooting. Our children are tired of being told to ‘run, hide, and fight,’ these regular, uniquely American tragedies must be a call to action for our political leaders. We need decisive change to US gun laws and regulations. The cost of political inaction on preventing gun violence is increasingly, tragically clear. – Kris Brown	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is every reporter’s absolutely worst nightmare. We go home at night afraid that something like this will occur and that is what happened here, we have learned that a fellow reporter has died while covering a shooting. – Luana Munoz	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Diversity: The Next Big Opportunity. opportunity for us to promote the Second Amendment, to promote hunting and sports shooting to this new demographic and make them a multigenerational customer and lifelong Second Amendment advocate. – Chris Cheng	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Though I did not witness the transformation, I was enchanted by these beautiful mammals in a different way, after seeing how botos would sometimes bring their beaks above water, I wanted a split shot at sunset. Though the water was so dark that I was shooting blind, this dolphin gave me a perfect pose and smile. – Kat Zhou	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We felt the same feelings come back to us as the day of the Walmart shooting. Everything comes back and we’re just wondering, now what? How many people are going to get hurt? – Albert Hernandez	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Nothing prepares you for that, i didn’t really feel safe (going to work) in the beginning because of the shooting in 2019. … It is definitely going to be more difficult to be going in to work. – Marie Hall	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This shooting appears to be in retaliation from a previous disturbance, and was believed to be a targeted attack on one or more of the persons inside the store. – Garland Police	Found on CNN 1 year ago
She was just this little glowy dot on a screen, [ and ] she kind of looked like a shooting star, so we called her Star. She’s always been Star to us. – Rachel Joy Barehl Beth	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The idea shooting down a balloon that’s gathering information over America and that makes relations worse? i made it real clear to Xi Jinping that we’re going to compete fully with China, but we’re not looking for conflict. That’s been the case so far. – Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Our friends are playing politics with US intelligence. We sent a clear message to China that this is not acceptable. We protected civilians. We gained more intelligence while protecting our own sensitive information. And the bottom line here is shooting down the surveillance balloon over water wasn’t just the safest option, but it was the one that maximized our intelligence payload. – Chuck Schumer	Found on CNN 1 year ago

The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents -- men who never think of lending a shilling to their next-door neighbors, for purposes of honest industry, unless upon the most ample security, and at the highest rate of interest -- stand ready, at all times, to lend money in unlimited amounts to those robbers and murderers, who call themselves governments, to be expended in shooting down those who do not submit quietly to being robbed and enslaved.

– Lysander Spooner

added by Normando
5 months ago

I think that we need an emergency response because we’re facing a crisis situation … we need the help from our national leaders because we’re in a state where the only action that our colleagues took in response to the mass shooting in Nashville was to expel the two youngest Black lawmakers and then to pass a law to protect gun manufacturers.

– Justin Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This kind of hateful rhetoric from an elected official is exactly why tragedies such as the Covenant Christian School shooting in Nashville occurred.

– Freedom Caucus

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Nobody can tell us if the roles were reversed, and you had a Black man shoot a White 16-year-old teenager for merely ringing his doorbell that he would not be arrested, i mean, this citizen went home and slept in his bed at night after shooting that young Black kid in the head.

– Susan Pfannmuller/AP Crump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Hundreds of people were in the park at the time of the shooting when someone started shooting into the crowd, hitting at least six people.

– Paul Humphrey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They actually had to pass a shooting test. So, you went to a shooting range and you had to make 11 out of 20 shots on a target in front of an instructor.

– Jennifer Mascia

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Last year, I survived a workplace shooting. And now yesterday, I’ve lost a very close friend in another workplace shooting.

– Craig Greenberg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I represent 78,000 people, and when I came to the well that day, I was not standing for myself, i was standing for those young people … many of whom can’t even vote yet, many of whom are disenfranchised. But all of whom are terrified by the continued trend of mass shooting plaguing our state and plaguing this nation.

– Justin Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s morally insane that a week after a mass shooting took six precious lives in my community here in Nashville, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, their first action is not to take actions to rein in this proliferation of weapons of war in our streets, but it’s to expel their colleagues for standing with our constituents.

– Justin Jones of Nashville

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I watched a colleague of mine try a shooting case where someone got shot, so he’s able to try those very serious violent crimes and then switch, maybe someone who was a serial shoplifter and then charged with grand larceny and is in mental health treatment court because they had mental health issues, he was able to handle the wide range of cases and do them all fairly.

– Brendan Tracy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is where we are at, we have children living through multiple mass shooting (incidents). What are we doing?

– Ashbey Beasley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That suspect vehicle then began shooting at that victim vehicle, striking multiple juveniles.

– Byron Thomas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We just squatted down there and waited there until the shooting stopped, and then after some time they brought out the first kid that was an obvious DOA.

– Amanda Shoemake

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It sounded like they were shooting outside, so everyone started running back in, then when everyone tried to exit again, it got crazy.

– Atiya Holley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Americans are tired of fearing if they or their families will be the next victims of a mass shooting. Our children are tired of being told to ‘run, hide, and fight,’ these regular, uniquely American tragedies must be a call to action for our political leaders. We need decisive change to US gun laws and regulations. The cost of political inaction on preventing gun violence is increasingly, tragically clear.

– Kris Brown

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is every reporter’s absolutely worst nightmare. We go home at night afraid that something like this will occur and that is what happened here, we have learned that a fellow reporter has died while covering a shooting.

– Luana Munoz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Diversity: The Next Big Opportunity. opportunity for us to promote the Second Amendment, to promote hunting and sports shooting to this new demographic and make them a multigenerational customer and lifelong Second Amendment advocate.

– Chris Cheng

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Though I did not witness the transformation, I was enchanted by these beautiful mammals in a different way, after seeing how botos would sometimes bring their beaks above water, I wanted a split shot at sunset. Though the water was so dark that I was shooting blind, this dolphin gave me a perfect pose and smile.

– Kat Zhou

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We felt the same feelings come back to us as the day of the Walmart shooting. Everything comes back and we’re just wondering, now what? How many people are going to get hurt?

– Albert Hernandez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Nothing prepares you for that, i didn’t really feel safe (going to work) in the beginning because of the shooting in 2019. … It is definitely going to be more difficult to be going in to work.

– Marie Hall

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This shooting appears to be in retaliation from a previous disturbance, and was believed to be a targeted attack on one or more of the persons inside the store.

– Garland Police

Found on CNN
1 year ago

She was just this little glowy dot on a screen, [ and ] she kind of looked like a shooting star, so we called her Star. She’s always been Star to us.

– Rachel Joy Barehl Beth

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The idea shooting down a balloon that’s gathering information over America and that makes relations worse? i made it real clear to Xi Jinping that we’re going to compete fully with China, but we’re not looking for conflict. That’s been the case so far.

– Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our friends are playing politics with US intelligence. We sent a clear message to China that this is not acceptable. We protected civilians. We gained more intelligence while protecting our own sensitive information. And the bottom line here is shooting down the surveillance balloon over water wasn’t just the safest option, but it was the one that maximized our intelligence payload.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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