What’s interesting in the news today?

Open thread, as always.

Reports on the DC Navy Yard shooter show that once again, signs were missed, and mental problems were ignored. Rather than deal with these failures, they’ll just blame the weapons used.

From TheAP  ” U.S. law enforcement officials are telling The Associated Press that the Navy contractor identified as the gunman in the mass shootings at the Washington Navy Yard had been suffering a host of serious mental issues, including paranoia and a sleep disorder. He also had been hearing voices in his head, the officials said.

Aaron Alexis, 34, had been treated since August by the Veterans Administration for his mental problems, the officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the criminal investigation in the case was continuing. The Navy had not declared him mentally unfit, which would have rescinded a security clearance that Alexis had from his earlier time in the Navy Reserves.”

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Like I said above, they won’t address the failures that lead to this, or the ones that made it worse than it would have been.

From CNSNews  “My son was at Marine Barracks — at the Navy Yard yesterday – and they had weapons with them, but they didn’t have ammunition.   And they said, ‘We were trained, and if we had the ammunition, we could’ve cleared that building.’ Only three people had been shot at that time, and they could’ve stopped the rest of it.”

The Navy Yard shooting brings up the legitimate issue of carrying – and using – firearms on military installations.

Back in 1993, the Clinton administration virtually declared military establishments “gun-free zones.” As a result, the policy banned “military personnel from carrying their own personal firearms and mandates that ‘a credible and specific threat against [Department of the Army] personnel [exist] in that region” before military personnel ‘may be authorized to carry firearms for personal protection.” Indeed, most military bases have relatively few military police as they are in heavy demand to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan,” according to economist John Lott.

Additionally, Lott discovered that “every public shooting since at least 1950 in the U.S. in which more than three people have been killed has taken place where citizens are not allowed to carry guns.”

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Despite reports to the contrary, an AR-15 was not used in the shootings. The NY Daily News ran an inflammatory piece on their front page with photos of an AR-15. They jumped the gun. Can’t wait to see where the retraction gets buried. CNN kept referring to the weapon as an AR-15 shotgun, which is a non-existent piece of hardware. MSNBC did an animated version of events that had an AR instead of a shotgun as well. If you’re gonna report on this stuff, shouldn’t you have at least a basic grasp of what you’re talking about? And what about the editors? 🙄

From Mediaite  “Speaking before the press this afternoon, the Federal Bureau of Investigations confirmed that, despite early reports, current information indicates that there was no semi-automatic AR-15 rifle used in the Washington Navy Yard shootings that left 12 people dead. According to the agency’s investigation, deceased shooter Aaron Alexis entered the building armed with a shotgun and somehow obtained a handgun while inside the facility.

Regarding previous reports on the weapons used in the attacks, FBI Washington field assistant director Valerie Parlave said: “There’s been a lot of information circulating in the media over the past day. We caution against obtaining information from unofficial sources, and we ask that all inquiries be directed to the FBI.”

Yeah right. They’re too busy pushing their anti-gun agenda to let facts get in the way. Obama responds as you would expect. Shamelessly. Never let a crisis go to waste right Barry?

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We’re all well aware of the Democrats love of abortion, and the money the industry pours into their coffers. They’re even willing to go so far as to promise to reopen clinics closed for violations, not meeting standards, and unsanitary conditions in order to ensure the money keeps flowing to them, and that they get the pro-abortion votes. I’ve always considered this guy to be one of the slimiest people on the planet. Watching the video at the link just confirms it.

From Breitbart  “Virginia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe has been caught on tape saying that, if elected, he will issue a directive to unilaterally allow abortion clinics that do not meet state health standards to remain open.”

“In the video, McAuliffe, who is running against pro-life candidate Ken Cuccinelli, reviewed the status of abortion clinics in Virginia:

I can do what I talked about, issue a guidance opinion by March to keep the remaining health centers open. I can do that myself as Governor. That’s why I said I’ll do that by March to keep the remaining, uh, Norfolk is closed. Fairfax is closed, or closing, so there will be 18 left. Only one of those 18 actually meet the, the requirements so they’ll all close if I don’t do that. But I will issue what’s called a guidance opinion by mid-March which will say that these regulations, I have, the General Assembly wasn’t definitive with the Board of Health as to the rules, I can give a guidance opinion to the Board of Health to grandfather in those remaining clinics to keep them open. That’s why this election is so important, and I will do that.”

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ACORN is back. I hate to say it, but NY deserves this type of leadership for allowing these people to continue their fraud. And for electing leaders who are using that fraud to their benefit. Sometimes you get what you deserve.

From TheNYPost  “Bertha Lewis played critical behind-the-scenes roles in the victorious Democratic primary campaigns of both Bill de Blasio for mayor and Kenneth Thompson for Brooklyn district attorney, The Post has learned.

“We’re baacccck. The right wing will have to deal with it,” Lewis chuckled.

Lewis, a co-founder of the Working Families Party, was an early backer and adviser to de Blasio.

ACORN’s successor group, New York Communities for Change, endorsed de Blasio for mayor in early spring, and a Lewis protege, NYCC field director Harold Miller, helped run de Blasio’s field operation.”

I think fraud operation is probably more accurate.

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