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   Getting too much email?   Unsubscribe   |   Manage subscriptions FA Fox News Alert (via MoveOn) <moveon-help@list.moveon.org>     To: You Fri 4/28/2023 12:50 PM Enough is enough! Sign to demand that AT&T, GM, and Subway stop funding Fox’s lies! Dear MoveOn member, On Monday, Tucker Carlson, the most-watched cable news host, was fired from Fox News. 1  It’s reported that owners Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch claim their choice was a “business decision,” which is short for Tucker Carlson was seen as a threat to their future profits. 2 As a corporation, Fox News is driven by its profits, and that’s what we are coming for.  With Fox's reputation on the line, now is an unmatched opportunity to break its stranglehold on our politics by fundamentally challenging Fox News' whole business model to really damage its bottom line.  While Carlson’s ouster is good news, it doesn’t change the fact that Fox News is rotten to the core.  Will you ch...

Important note: Recently, Fred Edgecomb, who has been affiliated with both the NRA and its state affiliate, the NC Rifle & Pistol Assoc., was heard claiming credit for passing Senate Bill 41 to repeal NC purchase permits and expand concealed carry into churches sponsoring schools. GRNC members should understand that neither NRA nor NCRPA had any apparent role in passing SB 41. NRA lobbyist DJ Spiker only showed up at the last minute, and we are unaware of any significant action by NCRPA. In truth, it was GRNC volunteers who sent alerts, packed committee meetings, walked legislative hallways, and deluged legislators with input. With the General Assembly’s May 4 “crossover deadline” looming, we need a hearing for House Bill 189 (“NC Constitutional Carry Act”) ASAP. If the bill doesn’t clear at least the NC House, it will be dead for the two year session, effectively meaning it can’t be re-introduced until 2025.  You helped us pass SB 41. Now help us pass constitutional carry, eli...

 by David Codrea,  May 27, 2016 [Note: Copied and pasted from archived site so internal links may not work]   Would you? And who thinks with the way the world is going that they’ll forever maintain relatively low rates of “gun violence”? A common argument raised by the citizen disarmament lobby is that the Brits suffer from much less “gun violence.” That’s generally followed by crediting the gun ban that took place after the Dunblane school massacre, along with the assurance that similar draconian laws would yield similar results in the U.S. Common counter-arguments, while true, are generally incomplete. Those typically center on a cultural proclivity to be less violent, especially when such cultures are homogeneous, like the UK for the most part, or Japan. Two points that are raised less frequently: If violence were caused by guns, the millions of members of the NRA and other gun groups wouldn’t have statistically insignificant “gun violence” rates that are lower th...

    January 2, 2018 This isn’t the only video. Where are the others? (Wichita Police bodycam screenshot) Right now there are more questions than answers over last week’s deadly officer-involved shooting that appears to have been precipitated by a fake SWATting call to police. According to  news accounts released so far , aside from having the misfortune of living at the address the caller gave police, the unarmed victim had nothing to do with an argument an online gamer had with another after which he made a fake call to police. The cowardly piece of  …work…   pretended to be a killer who had shot his father, was holding his mother and brother hostage, and was threatening to set the house on fire. Lost in all this is a fundamental presumption of innocence until proven guilty. No doubt about it, responding officers were primed to expect the worst. But that does not give them license to ignore the reasons they are employed by the public in the first plac...

  Today,  the governor announced that she will push for gun control bills that failed in 2023 in the 2024 session  by adding them to the "call" of the 30-day session. While this is no surprise, the governor has pushed for gun control bills in prior 30-day sessions, this would seemingly imply she is not planning on calling for a special session on gun control. Anti-gun lawmakers also indicated they may hear gun control bills during interim committee meetings. While legislators do not vote on bills during interim committee meetings, they use them to hear testimony and receive feedback on potential legislation before a session takes place. We will be carefully watching the interim committee schedules and will send updates as necessary.  On May 20th at 10:00am in Albuquerque, NMSSA will be holding our annual membership meeting. I will be giving an update on the legislature, and members present will have the opportunity to ask questions and give feedback on our legislativ...