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George Santos represents the kind of progress than the Left is so threatened by – a gay, Latino, first generation American and Republican who won a Biden district in overwhelming fashion by showing everyday voters that there is a better option than the broken promises and failed policies of the Democratic Party. After four years in the public eye, and on the verge of being sworn in as a member of the Republican led 118th Congress, the New York Times launches this shotgun blast of attacks, it is no surprise that Congressman-elect Santos has enemies at the New York Times who are attempting to smear his good name with these defamatory allegations. As Winston Churchill famously stated, ‘You have enemies? Good. It means that you’ve stood up for something, sometime in you life,'. – George Santos	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I called Megan Fox. I was like, ‘ You are n’t here for me, ’ i ’m in my room, and I ’m like freaking out on Taylor Hill/FilmMagic and, dude, I put the shotgun in my mouth, and I ’m yelling on the phone and like the barrel’s in my mouth. I go to cock the shotgun and the bullet as it comes back up, the shell just gets jammed. Megan’s like dead silent. – Machine Gun Kelly	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
To be honest, part of the format is not really appealing to me. Shotgun three days, to me, is not a golf tournament — no cut. It’s that simple. I want to play against the best in the world and a format that’s been going on for hundreds of years. That’s what I want to see. – Jon Rahm	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I do see the appeal other people see towards LIV Golf. I do see some of the points and arguments they could make toward why they prefer it, to be honest, part of the format is not really appealing to me. Shotgun three days, to me, is not a golf tournament — no cut. It’s that simple. I want to play against the best in the world and a format that’s been going on for hundreds of years. That’s what I want to see. – Jon Rahm	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Ahmaud Arbery described Ahmaud as turning toward Travis and attacking Travis, which we all know now that wasn't true, when Ahmaud turned to Travis, Travis already had that shotgun pulled toward him. – Wanda Cooper-Jones	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I want to help restore faith in medicine to the American public, i also want real answers. … Did we go overboard because we kept only focusing on one thing during this entire time period? In my opinion, I think we should have had a much more selective approach of helping those who are at high risk rather than just a shotgun approach to everybody. – Greg Murphy	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I thought it was very, very rude to talk about his long, dirty toenails and to totally neglect that my son had a huge hole in his chest when he was shot with that shotgun. – Laura Hogue	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I shot Ahmaud Arbery, ahmaud Arbery had my gun, Ahmaud Arbery struck me, it was obvious... that Ahmaud Arbery was attacking me, that if Ahmaud Arbery would have gotten the shotgun from me, then it was a life or death situation. – Travis McMichael	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I shot him, he had my gun, he struck me. It was obvious that he was attacking me ; that if he would have got the shotgun from me, then it was, this is a life-or-death situation. And I'm gon na have to stop him from doing this, so I shot. – Travis McMichael	Found on CNN 2 years ago
He turns and is on me, he's on me in a flash. He grabs the shotgun, what were you thinking? – Travis McMichael	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
That made me question me being in front of the camera and in between all of that fire, when the rounds were released — when they shot at me — I actually did feel the blanks hitting my face and my body, and I could feel the wind from the shotgun being discharged. – Ian Hudson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The 14-year-old comes out of the garage with a pump shotgun, levels it at deputies, and despite warnings to drop it, she walks back into the garage. She comes back a second time, and that's when deputies open fire. – Sheriff Mike Chitwood	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Based on items observed in the suspect's bedroom at that time, he was interviewed by the FBI in April 2020. No Racially Motivated Violent Extremism( RMVE) ideology was identified during the course of the assessment and no criminal violation was found, the shotgun was not returned to the suspect. – Charge Paul Keenan	Found on CNN 3 years ago
They de-escalated and retreated for 15 minutes -- 15 minutes ! They used every non-lethal option available. Multiple bean bag shotgun rounds until they ran out. They used multiple Tasers all while giving verbal commands to Mr. Chavez to give up peacefully that he did not adhere to. – Joe Gamaldi	Found on CNN 3 years ago
They did everything that everyone across this country is asking for law enforcement to do, they de-escalated and retreated for 15 minutes -- 15 minutes ! They used every non-lethal option available. Multiple bean bag shotgun rounds until they ran out. They used multiple Tasers all while giving verbal commands to Mr. Chavez to give up peacefully that he did not adhere to. – Joe Gamaldi	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The munition with knives has been around since at least the Vietnam War.The military term for the warhead is flechettes, which are dart-like submunitions that are released and spread out in flight as an anti-personnel device, munitions have had a variety of warheads since before the Civil War, where they used everything from classic exploding cannonballs, todumbbell-shaped projectiles and grapeshot, which was basically shotgun-shell BBs (only much larger) that used mass and velocity as the engagement mechanism. – John Venable	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We got this little leopard with a gunshot wound, an operation was carried out and 18 shotgun pellets were removed, mainly from his forehead, eyes and sinuses. – Saltanat Seitova	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
When he sat back down the second time, shortly after that, he stood up, turned, and produced a shotgun. – Jack Wilson	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The law allows residents inside their own homes to defend themselves, the one with the shotgun was able to shoot at the three males and they were all pronounced dead here at the scene. – Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The one with the shotgun was able to shoot at the three males and they were all pronounced dead here at the scene. – Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
One of the shotgun shells was for my daughter. – Sadie Baze	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The pleasure of hunting is to be in open space. I like the mountain, desert, shotgun and being awake during the night to hunt, the pleasure of hunting is to be a success in it. A hunter's hope is hunting. Being a success in every job in the world has a special pleasure. – Jan Agha	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I chased him, he sat in his car and with the shotgun in my hands, I threw it through his window like an arrow. He just swore at me and took off. – Abdul Aziz	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I don't think we know exactly what happened, other than some 17-year-old boy that nobody predicted would have done something like this took his father's shotgun and pistol and murdered these poor, poor kids. So, I'm not sure we know what legislation we need to pass, although obviously we need to work hard and find ways to stop things like that from happening. – John Cornyn	Found on CNN 5 years ago

George Santos represents the kind of progress than the Left is so threatened by – a gay, Latino, first generation American and Republican who won a Biden district in overwhelming fashion by showing everyday voters that there is a better option than the broken promises and failed policies of the Democratic Party. After four years in the public eye, and on the verge of being sworn in as a member of the Republican led 118th Congress, the New York Times launches this shotgun blast of attacks, it is no surprise that Congressman-elect Santos has enemies at the New York Times who are attempting to smear his good name with these defamatory allegations. As Winston Churchill famously stated, ‘You have enemies? Good. It means that you’ve stood up for something, sometime in you life,'.

– George Santos

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I called Megan Fox. I was like, ‘ You are n’t here for me, ’ i ’m in my room, and I ’m like freaking out on Taylor Hill/FilmMagic and, dude, I put the shotgun in my mouth, and I ’m yelling on the phone and like the barrel’s in my mouth. I go to cock the shotgun and the bullet as it comes back up, the shell just gets jammed. Megan’s like dead silent.

– Machine Gun Kelly

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

To be honest, part of the format is not really appealing to me. Shotgun three days, to me, is not a golf tournament — no cut. It’s that simple. I want to play against the best in the world and a format that’s been going on for hundreds of years. That’s what I want to see.

– Jon Rahm

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I do see the appeal other people see towards LIV Golf. I do see some of the points and arguments they could make toward why they prefer it, to be honest, part of the format is not really appealing to me. Shotgun three days, to me, is not a golf tournament — no cut. It’s that simple. I want to play against the best in the world and a format that’s been going on for hundreds of years. That’s what I want to see.

– Jon Rahm

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Ahmaud Arbery described Ahmaud as turning toward Travis and attacking Travis, which we all know now that wasn't true, when Ahmaud turned to Travis, Travis already had that shotgun pulled toward him.

– Wanda Cooper-Jones

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I want to help restore faith in medicine to the American public, i also want real answers. … Did we go overboard because we kept only focusing on one thing during this entire time period? In my opinion, I think we should have had a much more selective approach of helping those who are at high risk rather than just a shotgun approach to everybody.

– Greg Murphy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I thought it was very, very rude to talk about his long, dirty toenails and to totally neglect that my son had a huge hole in his chest when he was shot with that shotgun.

– Laura Hogue

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I shot Ahmaud Arbery, ahmaud Arbery had my gun, Ahmaud Arbery struck me, it was obvious... that Ahmaud Arbery was attacking me, that if Ahmaud Arbery would have gotten the shotgun from me, then it was a life or death situation.

– Travis McMichael

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I shot him, he had my gun, he struck me. It was obvious that he was attacking me ; that if he would have got the shotgun from me, then it was, this is a life-or-death situation. And I'm gon na have to stop him from doing this, so I shot.

– Travis McMichael

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He turns and is on me, he's on me in a flash. He grabs the shotgun, what were you thinking?

– Travis McMichael

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That made me question me being in front of the camera and in between all of that fire, when the rounds were released — when they shot at me — I actually did feel the blanks hitting my face and my body, and I could feel the wind from the shotgun being discharged.

– Ian Hudson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The 14-year-old comes out of the garage with a pump shotgun, levels it at deputies, and despite warnings to drop it, she walks back into the garage. She comes back a second time, and that's when deputies open fire.

– Sheriff Mike Chitwood

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Based on items observed in the suspect's bedroom at that time, he was interviewed by the FBI in April 2020. No Racially Motivated Violent Extremism( RMVE) ideology was identified during the course of the assessment and no criminal violation was found, the shotgun was not returned to the suspect.

– Charge Paul Keenan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

They de-escalated and retreated for 15 minutes -- 15 minutes ! They used every non-lethal option available. Multiple bean bag shotgun rounds until they ran out. They used multiple Tasers all while giving verbal commands to Mr. Chavez to give up peacefully that he did not adhere to.

– Joe Gamaldi

Found on CNN
3 years ago

They did everything that everyone across this country is asking for law enforcement to do, they de-escalated and retreated for 15 minutes -- 15 minutes ! They used every non-lethal option available. Multiple bean bag shotgun rounds until they ran out. They used multiple Tasers all while giving verbal commands to Mr. Chavez to give up peacefully that he did not adhere to.

– Joe Gamaldi

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The munition with knives has been around since at least the Vietnam War.The military term for the warhead is flechettes, which are dart-like submunitions that are released and spread out in flight as an anti-personnel device, munitions have had a variety of warheads since before the Civil War, where they used everything from classic exploding cannonballs, todumbbell-shaped projectiles and grapeshot, which was basically shotgun-shell BBs (only much larger) that used mass and velocity as the engagement mechanism.

– John Venable

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We got this little leopard with a gunshot wound, an operation was carried out and 18 shotgun pellets were removed, mainly from his forehead, eyes and sinuses.

– Saltanat Seitova

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

When he sat back down the second time, shortly after that, he stood up, turned, and produced a shotgun.

– Jack Wilson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The law allows residents inside their own homes to defend themselves, the one with the shotgun was able to shoot at the three males and they were all pronounced dead here at the scene.

– Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The one with the shotgun was able to shoot at the three males and they were all pronounced dead here at the scene.

– Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

One of the shotgun shells was for my daughter.

– Sadie Baze

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The pleasure of hunting is to be in open space. I like the mountain, desert, shotgun and being awake during the night to hunt, the pleasure of hunting is to be a success in it. A hunter's hope is hunting. Being a success in every job in the world has a special pleasure.

– Jan Agha

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I chased him, he sat in his car and with the shotgun in my hands, I threw it through his window like an arrow. He just swore at me and took off.

– Abdul Aziz

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I don't think we know exactly what happened, other than some 17-year-old boy that nobody predicted would have done something like this took his father's shotgun and pistol and murdered these poor, poor kids. So, I'm not sure we know what legislation we need to pass, although obviously we need to work hard and find ways to stop things like that from happening.

– John Cornyn

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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