President Obama continued pressing for change of the nation’s gun laws, which he argues would help stop mass shootings that he says have become all too frequent.

He also signaled frustration with the National Rifle Association and gun manufacturers for blocking his proposed legislative efforts.

During an interview with the “WTF Podcast,” with Marc Maron, Obama complained that gun manufacturers reaped the benefits from shootings, based on the fear that the government would take away their guns.

“Each time that these events occur, ironically, gun manufacturers make out like bandits, partly because of this fear that’s churned up that the federal government and the black helicopters are all coming to get your guns,” he said.

He also joked that the “black helicopters” that feature in conspiracy theories were real.

“There are black helicopters, but we generally don’t deploy them … we deploy them against bin Laden but we generally don’t deploy them on U.S. soil,” he chuckled.

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People who manufacture weapons or invest in weapons industries are hypocrites if they call themselves Christian, Pope Francis said on Sunday.

Francis issued his toughest condemnation to date of the weapons industry at a rally of thousands of young people at the end of the first day of his trip to the Italian city of Turin.

“If you trust only men you have lost,” he told the young people in a long, rambling talk about war, trust and politics after putting aside his prepared address.

“It makes me think of … people, managers, businessmen who call themselves Christian and they manufacture weapons. That leads to a bit a distrust, doesn’t it?” he said to applause.

He also criticized those who invest in weapons industries, saying “duplicity is the currency of today … they say one thing and do another.”

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Socialist. Which always leads to genocide.

David DeGerolamo

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The title of the post was updated to match the graffiti: Black Lives Mater.

Graffiti that appeared on a Confederate memorial in Charleston, S.C., was covered up Sunday as the city continues to mourn the victims of last week’s shooting massacre at a historic black church.

The inscription on the base of the statue — which honors the “Confederate Defenders of Charleston” who died at Fort Sumter — was covered in the red, spray-painted message, “Black Lives Matter.”

“This is the problem,” graffiti on another side of the memorial read. “#Racist.”

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How about “American Lives Matter”. Because that is what we will should asking ourselves. Divisive tactics have always been successful in manipulating people to achieve power. There is one common end result for Socialism and Communism when they take control: genocide.

So ask yourself which tactic is the most divisive that we are bombarded with every single day: racism, immigration, climate change, religion, socioeconomic classes, political party affiliation, gun control or homosexuality? The result is the same: divide and control us.

American lives matter. If we do not believe that simple premise, they win. And the cost of their win is too high of a price for us to pay. Resist and Fight.

David DeGerolamo

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Comments from Karl Rove video on The Daily Caller:

Published 21 June 2015 on The Art of Not Being Governed

Statist Fallacies: “The State is Us”

The murders in the church in Charleston, SC were a despicable act by a young man who thought that he was repaying violence by causing more violence. His motivations may make sense on some level — but, his punishing of harmless people in a place of refuge was misguided and horrific.

What the shooter stated is no doubt true: blacks do rape white women at a rate much higher than the national average and whites rarely rape black women. His comments with regard to blacks ruining America is only true with regard to the young hoodlums in the inner cities. And I doubt that the folks he killed had anything to do with violence on white women — some were in fact women.

Listening to the talking heads on cable news one could get the idea that these were the first people killed through racial motivation — that is hardly the case although the media typically hides the murders of white people by blacks on the 5th or 6th page of the newspaper — if they print the event at all. And hundreds of black kids are killed every year by other blacks in a kind of blood sport in the inner cities — still there is little outcry or reporting on a national level.

While people were still attempting to clean the blood off the church floor, President Obama took the opportunity to blame guns for the death of these nine people. Aside from the fact that his timing was tacky at best, his logic is flawed. What will the kids in the inner cities use to kill each other this weekend — broomsticks, ball bats, rocks, or handguns? And where will they get these handguns? From the corner gun store? There probably won’t be one legally purchased handgun used to murder another human being in the inner cities this weekend. So, I am left wondering how placing restrictions on what kind or how many handguns I own here in the mountains of North Carolina is going to decrease gun violence in Detroit, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Chicago, or some other killing field. Or for that matter how it will stop some deranged individual from killing innocent people.

In my view, the people in Charleston were victims more of a growing hostility and unrest than the actions of one demented individual. We are living in a society that is driven by political correctness and favoritism. If one owns a home, is employed, and supports one’s children, society establishes one set of rules and expectations — for the other segment of society — not so much. Since not much is expected — we are rarely disappointed in what we get.

Then when we throw in the folks who make their living — either directly, or through the ballot by being bombastic and stirring the racial pot — we have a constant situation of distrust and animus from both whites and blacks. Folks who don’t trust each other cannot live in harmony. It won’t work in a marriage or in society at large. As long as there are people who are willing to foment hatred for some personal gain, America is stuck in a quagmire.

A Harvard professor stated that the problems in America were caused by White Supremacy. Other than seeing David Duke on television some years ago, I have never seen a white supremacist. How would we identify one — would he have horns or something? I would say that the racial problems in America are caused by lack of acceptance of personal responsibility. Working folks have some difficulty supporting their own kids — they resent having to support other people’s offspring. People tend to resent having to get up and go to work, knowing that a part of their effort is contributed to those who sit at home and do nothing. There is no justification in these circumstances to kill innocent people — but blacks do kill whites at an alarming rate so why are we so puzzled when a white kills blacks?

There is nothing here that is intended to excuse the actions of the guy who killed these people. But, if we don’t understand and come to grips with the resentment and anger than lies just below the surface, America will be visited with more of these heinous actions.

Have a good week. Bill Shuey is a freelance writer from North Carolina.

An excerpt from an interesting post provides a clue:

“Chosen by History as the exceptional and indispensable country, Washington claims the right and the responsibility to impose its hegemony on the world. Neoconservatives regard their agenda to be too important to be constrained by domestic and international law or by the interests of other countries. Indeed, as the Unipower, Washington is required by the neoconservative doctrine to prevent the rise of other countries that could constrain American power.

“Paul Wolfowitz, a leading neoconservative, penned the Wolfowitz Doctrine shortly after the Soviet collapse. This doctrine is the basis of US foreign and military policy.

“The doctrine states:

“Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power.”

“Notice that Washington’s “first objective” is not peace, not prosperity, not human rights, not democracy, not justice. Washington’s “first objective” is world hegemony. Only the very confident so blatantly reveal their agenda.”

Read the entire essay … it’s worth your attention:

Paul Craig Roberts’ Address to the International Conference on the European/Russian Crisis Created by Washington

Thanks to Western Rifle Shooters Association for the link.

Published Saturday, June 20, 2015 on Liberty’s Torch by Francis W. Porretto