Liberal Gun Reporter: The Media Is Not Covering Solutions That Could Prevent Mass Shootings…And They Don’t Involve Gun Bans

Often times, the media is just dreadful when it comes to reporting on firearms and Second Amendment issues. They continue to misname, misreport, and get parts of guns laws just wrong. Is it deliberate? It’s hard to suggest otherwise. This isn’t the first rodeo and the fact that laws that have been on the books for decades, like 18-year-olds being able to buy long guns, are treated like some shocking discovery a la Watergate continues to be an embarrassing moment for the elite media. It’s all about the narrative….

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California Bar Suspect Made Facebook Post Around Time Of Shooting

The U.S. Marine veteran who is accused of shooting and killing 12 people at a bar in Thousand Oaks, California, this week is believed to have made a social media post around the time of the attack on Nov. 7.

Ian David Long, 28, is accused of gunning down a dozen people before turning the gun on himself.

“I hope people call me insane… (laughing emojis) wouldn’t that just be a big ball of irony?” a person believed to be Long wrote on Facebook around the time of the shooting, officials told CNN. It’s not clear if he made the post before or during the attack….

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Thousand Oaks Shooter Ian David Long Was ‘Weird Loner,’ Ex-Roommate Claims

A former roommate of Ian David Long, identified as the gunman who shot and killed 12 people in California, claimed he was a “weird loner.”

“I think I’ve actually gone there with him one time,” Blake Winnett, who was his roommate in 2012 and 2014, said of Long and the bar.

“He was kind of weird. He always locked himself in his room, he was always by himself,” he told the New York Post. “I didn’t really know him very well.” Winnett said he knew Long served two to three tours overseas in the U.S. Marine Corps….

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What We Know About Ian David Long, California Bar Shooter

Former U.S. Marine Ian David Long has been named as the suspect who shot and killed 12 people in a Southern California bar before turning the gun on himself on Nov. 7.

In April of this year, mental health specialists who spoke with Long discussed his military service and asked him whether he had post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). They determined he wasn’t a danger to himself or others, The New York Times reported. They also said he couldn’t involuntarily be taken to a mental hospital under the California 5150 law code for the temporary, involuntary psychiatric commitment of individuals who present a danger to themselves or others due to mental illness.

Defense Department records show he was on active duty with the U.S. Marine Corps from August 2008 to March 2013….

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VIDEO: Gunfire Erupts At Borderline Bar & Grill In Thousand Oaks

Video footage has emerged from the shooting inside the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks.

The video posted on Instagram by Dallas Knapp captures audio of what appears to be several shots fired inside the Borderline Bar & Grill, followed by footage as a person on scene was running from the location….

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Mass Shooting At Borderline Bar And Grill In Thousand Oaks, California

Several hundred people were inside at the time, police said. The gunman later was confirmed dead.

A Marine veteran clad in black and armed with a .45-caliber Glock handgun shot his way into a Southern California bar crowded with college students and unleashed hell before turning the gun on himself, officials said Thursday.

When it was over, 12 others, including a sheriff’s sergeant who tried to stop the carnage, were also dead and many more were wounded.

While investigators identified the gunman as 28-year-old Ian David Long and tried to establish a motive, the nation was once again forced to grapple with tragedy and embark on the all-too-familiar rituals of mourning after yet another mass shooting….

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Mental Health Professionals Denounce CNN And Don Lemon’s Show For Mocking And Stigmatizing Kanye West’s Hospitalization

ON MONDAY NIGHT, CNN host Don Lemon led a panel discussion with three CNN commentators as they gleefully heaped scorn on Kanye West for meeting with President Trump to discuss prison reform and for otherwise expressing support for the President (the video is below). Among other things, West was pilloried for being both ignorant and exploited. “Kanye West is what happens when Negroes don’t read,” CNN’s Bakari Sellers said. CNN’s Tara Setmayer pronounced him “the token Negro of the Trump administration.”

While those comments received some attention (only from conservative outlets, needless to say), the laughter-driven attacks on West for his well-publicized medical treatment for mental health issues were largely ignored. But those comments, broadcast in prime-time by CNN on television and then widely disseminated by the network on social media, were not just reprehensible, but genuinely dangerous….

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What We All Missed During The SCOTUS Fight: A New VA Report And A House Hearing On Veteran Suicides

To contact the Veterans Crisis Line, please dial 1-800-273-8255 and press 1; text 838255; or visit VeteransCrisisLine.net. 

A week and a half ago, the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs held a hearing to discuss, analyze, and strengthen programs and methods dedicated to preventing veteran suicides.

Unfortunately, the hearing was held on the same day Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh testified in front of Congress, and so it tragically did not receive much attention — despite the fact that the Department of Veterans Affairs recently released a report showing there has been an increase in suicides among young veterans.

According to the VA’s report, in 2015 the rate of suicide was 40.4 for every 100,000 veterans between the ages of 18 and 34 years old; in 2016, that number increased to 45 for every 100,000.

Veterans and service members in general have a higher rate of suicide than the civilian U.S. population….

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