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“During the National Rifle Association’s May 2016 convention, where Donald Trump won the organisation’s coveted endorsement, board member David Keene hosted a private dinner that drew three Russian lifetime NRA members: gu.com/p/aphdf/stw
a since-convicted Kremlin influence agent, her handler and mentor, and a previously unreported Russian who chairs a defense industry foundation."
"Ex-Moscow banker Alexander Torshin, who was sanctioned last year, and his gun rights protege Maria Butina, who in late 2018 pleaded guilty to being a Russian influence agent and is now cooperating with US law enforcement, spent years cozying up to the NRA and of its leaders."
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Gunman in Mercy Hospital killings targeted his ex-fiancee, an emergency room physician
#TuesdayThoughts #GunControlNow #NoNRA washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11…
2/"CHICAGO — A man showed up at Mercy Hospital on Monday afternoon and opened fire on his former fiancee before turning the gun on others, killing the woman, a police officer and a bystander. The gunman also died at the scene. The incident, witnesses said, began in the hospital’s
3/"parking lot as a domestic argument involving the gunman, identified by police as 32-year-old Juan Lopez, and Tamara O’Neal, a 38-year-old emergency room physician. When a friend attempted to intervene, Lopez lifted his shirt to display a handgun, Chicago Police Superintendent
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And the headlines yesterday were @ Ivanka Trump's emails..
‘This just tears at the soul’: 1 day, 5 cities, 11 killings-.
#TuesdayThoughts #GunControlNow #EnoughIsEnough #NoNRA washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11…
2/"The killings were separated by thousands of miles but shared a common theme: brutal spasms of violence that shook U.S. cities at the beginning of the holiday season. They included an execution-style quadruple slaying in the basement of a gentrifying Philadelphia neighborhood;
3/"an act of domestic violence that started as an argument in a Chicago hospital parking lot and ended with a doctor, a policeman and a pharmacy resident dead; and a mystery that flummoxed police, after someone fired randomly into a crowd of homeless people in Denver’s downtown.
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