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Arkansas Governor Signs Religious Freedom Bill
The governor of Arkansas signed a rewritten "religious freedom" bill into law Thursday, and lawmakers in Indiana approved a revised version of its law after a blistering wave of criticism....
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Gov. Rick Snyder would veto a religious freedom restoration bill unless it came with extended protections for gays and lesbians. (April 2, 2015)
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From turning off the lights to coordinating zero-waste Penn Athletics events, Penns team of student Eco-Reps works to promote environmental consciousness throughout the entire Penn community.
Penn Eco-Reps is an environmental leadership program run by the Office of Sustainability at Facilities and Real Estates Services that advances environmental sustainability across campus. Penn has one of the bigger Eco-Rep programs in the country, Sustainability Outreach Manager Julian Goresko said. Our development has been based on the trend in higher education for peer-to-peer outreach programs to promote sustainability.
Penns Eco-Reps program began as an initiative in college houses, but has grown to encompass other campus communities. Approximately 60 student Eco-Reps are spread across the College House, Athletics, Hillel and Greek organizations.
One of the things that makes the Eco-Reps program unique among all the other great environmental groups on campus is that Eco-Reps is the only one in an official partnership with an office of the University, Goresko said. Members of the Office of Sustainability are able to work directly with students on a daily basis through the Eco-Reps program. We give our students funding to have sustainable events that raise awareness throughout the whole campus, Goresko said.
FRES does not release budgetary numbers for matters like the Eco-Reps program.
Funding given to Eco-Reps goes to more than just zero-waste events and free efficient light bulbs. Last year we had a speaker come from Israel who gave a series of lectures on Jewish values and sustainability that a large number of students attended, said Engineering junior and Hillel Eco-Rep Ariana Schanzer.
Funding also goes towards food at educational events, signage and stickers as incentives to foster education and environmental consciousness. A lot of it is little things these little details that work to get people curious, College senior and Athletics Eco-Rep Samuel Ruddy said. Also to organize passionate and able volunteers.
The largest branch of the student Eco-Reps program is the College House system. Mostly we focus on increased sustainability within the college houses, said College sophomore and Gregory Eco-Rep Tabeen Hossain. In Gregory, for example, we have gotten people to bring their own plates to events were trying to change peoples mindsets on sustainability and keep waste from generating.
Hossain is an environmental studies major and said her experience as an Eco-Rep is a nice way stay involved and make an impact at Penn.
Schanzer started her involvement with Hillel sustainability as an ambitious freshman. We saw that the Jewish community was a large section of Penn that wasnt involved much in environmental issues or sustainability, and its been great to be a part of a group involved in changing that, Schanzer said.
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Matthew Povich, a Cal Poly Pomona astronomy faculty member, is getting $650,000 from the National Science Foundations Early Career Development (CAREER) grant, given to full time professors working towards tenure. This is one of six grants awarded nationally in the astronomy field, and the only one to be awarded to a primarily undergraduate university.
The NSF grant spans five years, and will sponsor a postdoctoral fellow to assist in research, teach and assist in other grant activities. These additions are comforting to CPPs Physics and Astronomy Department, due to the grants financial stability and support.
The grants aims are to build a strong foundation of astronomy research activity at CPP, leverage an international community of over one million citizen scientists to power discoveries and build enthusiasm for astronomy, and establish Bring the Universe Into LA Districts.
Povichs proposal includes building a new calibration and spatially resolved map of the present-day Galactic star formation rate.
I like to say that star formation is the lifeblood of a galaxy, and the star formation rate is a galaxy's pulse, said Povich in an email correspondence.
My CAREER project is focused on improving measurements of the star formation rate in our Milky Way Galaxy, so in a sense we're trying to take the pulse of the Milky Way.
With the incorporation of citizen science, Povichs groundbreaking Milky Way Project aims to help scientists and researchers deal with the flood of data that confronts them. Tens of thousands of volunteers have classified well over 50,000 images from the project website, http://www.milkywayproject.org.
In the past what we did was have small teams of professional astronomers looking at very small blotches of the sky, said Povich. What we want to do now is use the Milky Way Project to look at the whole galaxy sort of unrestricted, which is much harder because the galaxy is very big.
To date, the Milky Way Project has been used to catalog several thousand star-forming nebulae throughout a large fraction of the Milky Way Galaxy. Part of the CAREER grant goal is to do the rest of the Galaxy. However, before beginning CAREER grant research, Povich intends to first use the Milky Way Project to search for bow shocks in our galaxy.
Im trying to get [new] data prepared, said Povich.
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Clouds are key to understanding climate change, but more-realistic models of their formation are needed.
Climate science needs more mathematicians and physicists. So say prominent climatologists who are trying to spark enthusiasm for their field in budding researchers who might otherwise choose astrophysics or cosmology. Talented physical scientists are needed to help resolve mysteries that are crucial to modelling the climate and, potentially, saving the planet the group says, such as the ways in which clouds are formed.
There is a misconception that the major challenges in physical climate science are settled. Thats absolutely not true, says Sandrine Bony, a climate researcher at the Laboratory of Dynamic Meteorology in Paris. In fact, essential physical aspects of climate change are poorly understood.
To attract physics and mathematics students to the speciality, Bony and her collaborators have presented some of the fields grand challenges in magazines such as Physics Today (B. Stevens and S. Bony Phys. Today http://doi.org/3f9; 2013), and are organizing summer schools for students from an array of scientific backgrounds.
Last week in Nature Geoscience, Bonys team outlined four of the fields deepest questions, including how clouds and climate interact and how the position of tropical rain belts and mid-latitude storm tracks might change in a warming world (S. Bony et al. Nature Geosci. http://doi.org/3gb; 2015). The questions are best tackled, says Bony, by creating more realistic climate simulations an approach that she hopes will appeal to physicists.
The perception that climate science is solved is an inadvertent result of pressure on climatologists to convey a simple message to the public for instance, that all dry regions will get dryer and all wet regions wetter in a warming climate, says Piers Forster, a climate modeller at the University of Leeds, UK. That has made the science sound somewhat dull, he says.
We too quickly turn to the policy implications of our work and forget the basic science, adds Bjorn Stevens, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, and a co-author of the Nature Geoscience paper. Although climate scientists agree on the basics for example, climate change is primarily the result of human activity large uncertainties persist in climate sensitivity, the increase in average global temperature caused by a given rise in the concentration of carbon dioxide.
As Bony and co-authors argue, understanding how the warming climate might affect cloud cover, which influences the amount of sunlight reflected back into space and thus Earths energy cycle, is key to addressing these uncertainties. A major weakness of current climate models is their limited ability to simulate the convection by which humid air is lifted into the atmosphere and which drives cloud formation and rainfall. In some instances, the models cannot even agree on whether the future will bring more rain or less.
Building better cloud-resolving models requires enormous computer power, as well as people who have a deep understanding of climate physics combined with skills in numerical modelling. But the number of scientists involved in developing computer algorithms for improved climate models is tiny, says Christian Jakob, an atmosphere researcher at Monash University in Clayton, Australia.
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In the field of artificial intelligence, a genetic algorithm (GA) is a search heuristic that mimics the process of natural selection.
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Philosopher Nick Bostrom says major tech companies are listening to his warnings about investing in AI safety research.
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Over the past year, Oxford University philosophy professor Nick Bostrom has gained visibility for warning about the potential risks posed by more advanced forms of artificial intelligence. He now says that his warnings are earning the attention of companies pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence research.
Many people working on AI remain skeptical of or even hostile to Bostroms ideas. But since his book on the subject, Superintelligence, appeared last summer, some prominent technologists and scientistsincluding Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and Bill Gateshave echoed some of his concerns. Google is even assembling an ethics committee to oversee its artificial intelligence work.
Bostrom met last week with MIT Technology Reviews San Francisco bureau chief, Tom Simonite, to discuss his effort to get artificial intelligence researchers to consider the dangers of their work (see Our Fear of Artificial Intelligence).
How did you come to believe that artificial intelligence was a more pressing problem for the world than, say, nuclear holocaust or a major pandemic?
A lot of things could cause catastrophes, but relatively few could actually threaten the entire future of Earth-inhabiting intelligent life. I think artificial intelligence is one of the biggest, and it seems to be one where the efforts of a small number of people, or one extra unit of resources, might make a nontrivial difference. With nuclear war, a lot of big, powerful groups are already interested in that.
What about climate change, which is widely seen as the biggest threat facing humanity at the moment?
Its a very, very small existential risk. For it to be one, our current models would have to be wrongeven the worst scenarios [only] mean the climate in some parts of the world would be a bit more unfavorable. Then we would have to be incapable of remediating that through some geoengineering, which also looks unlikely.
Certain ethical theories imply that existential risk is just way more important. All things considered, existential risk mitigation should be much bigger than it is today. The world spends way more on developing new forms of lipstick than on existential risk.
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Censorship is paralleling political turmoil in parts of the Middle East
Reuters is reporting that "a source in Turkey's telecoms industry" shares that Google Inc.'s (GOOG) video-sharing site YouTube and microblogging platfrom Twitter, Inc. (TWTR) were both blocked in Turkey on Monday, following a court decision. The crackdown comes after "individuals" complained to the court claiming that terrorists were posting political propoganda to the popular web services. The court agreed, and the services were ordered to be censored.
It's unclear how long the current censorship will last, but this isn't the first time Turkish courts have imposed such a ban. YouTube was banned for periods in 2007 and 2008 amid local unrest. Most recently in March 2014, Turkish courts temporarily ordered both Twitter and YouTube blocked to prevent the dissemination of supposed leaks ahead of Turkey's elections.
The leaked audio recordings were puportedly ofPrime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's inner circle. In the recordings officials appeared to be engaging in corrupt dealings. Erdogan's camp, however, claims the recordings were fakes generated by opposition leaders. His administration successfully petitioned the court to impose internet blockades to limit their impact.
The latest crackdown comes amid a fresh wave of violent political unrest.
Pro-communist/far left Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) stormed the office of a prosecutor in Istanbul whom they allege was corrupt. When police tried to storm the facility, the prosecutor was shot. He eventually died in surgery at a local hospital. Both gunmen were also shot dead by police commandos during the raid.
The U.S. callsDHKP-C a terrorist group and there's claims that it's backed by Putin's regime in Russia. The group claimed responsibility for a 2013 suicide bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Istanbul. The DHKP-C is just one of several groups -- both pro- and anti-Erdogan that's been vying for public sentiment in the Turkish state. Earlier this year nationalist, pro-Erdogan hackers defaced a number of websites.
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Sometimes its censorship. Sometimes its unfortunate implications. And sometimes its straight-up unexplainable. But whatever the justification may be, games get renamed all the time when theyre released across different regions.
Lets look at ten particular cases of video game name changes:
Edited Title: Retitled to Canis Canem Edit in the United Kingdom.
The Reason? Bully, a game about high school life that was presumed prior to release to be all about, well, bullying, attracted a lot of controversy in both the U.S. and Europe. In the U.K., specifically, where Rockstar changed Bullys title to Canis Canem Edit, anti-bullying organizations campaigned against the games release, and even the countrys rating board came under fire for giving it a 15 rating.
Strangely, the games updated version for the 360 and the Wii, Bully: Scholarship Edition, was allowed to keep the Bully title when it came out two years later. It still caused controversy though.
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Edited Title: Gryzor, then Probotector in Europe and Oceania.
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IGN Censors free speech in it #39;s comments section
This is insane. IGN no longer censors cursing, but feels the need to censor free speech when it #39;s something they don #39;t agree with. Someone needs to remind them of something called free speech.
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IN THE Supreme Courts landmark 2010 case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission , the court declared that corporate independent political expenditures are protected free speech under the First Amendment and cannot be constrained. The court wrestled with the possibility that unlimited spending might have a corrupting influence on politics, but in the end it decided that free speech was the overriding goal and that as long as the expenditures were independent of candidates, and transparent, they would not increase corruption. The campaign cycles since then have been increasingly awash in this spending, much of it going to super PACs.
Now comes a disturbing set of facts that call into question the courts logic and conclusions about corruption. The April 1 indictment of Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) on bribery charges alleges a chronology that should worry everyone who cares about integrity in national politics. According to the indictment, a wealthy Florida ophthalmologist, Salomon Melgen, who was seeking Mr. Menendezs support on matters before the U.S. government, wrote two checks for $300,000 each in 2012 to the Senate Majority PAC, a super PAC devoted to supporting the election of Senate Democrats.
The donations were earmarked for use in the senators state of New Jersey. The senator was the only Democrat running for the Senate then in New Jersey. The doctor handed over one of the checks to a close friend of Mr. Menendez at the senators annual fundraiser. Is this what the court envisioned as independent?
The super PAC has said it acted within the law. It will be up to a jury to decide whether the doctor and the senator engaged in corruption. But the facts asserted in the indictment are sufficient to call into question the courts underlying thinking in Citizens United. The court declared that independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption. The court added that there is only scant evidence that independent expenditures even ingratiate.
In this case, the money may have earned the doctor more than just gratitude. The indictment describes a flurry of e-mails, calls and requests for meetings by the senator on behalf of the Florida doctor. The senator aimed his efforts at cabinet members, regulators and fellow senators. There is no evidence of a direct quid pro quo, but the timing is suspicious. For example, on June 1, 2012, the doctor issued a $300,000 check, through his company, to the super PAC, earmarked for New Jersey politicking. On June 7, the senator met with the acting administrator of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to advocate for a resolution of a Medicare billing dispute involving the doctor to the tune of nearly $9 million. Just coincidence?
Whats at stake here is more than just one case. The Supreme Court has created an environment pregnant with possibility for corruption. The principles of independent expenditure are being routinely subverted. The reality of corrupt politics money for favors is growing more evident by the day.
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After a storm of protest from supporters of gay rights and the business community, Indiana and Arkansas have revised their Religious Freedom Restoration Acts. But it still isnt clear whether bakers, caterers and photographers that have religious objections to same-sex weddings can withhold their services from such celebrations.
Thetweaked Indiana law says businesses may not deny service on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, but some caterers, photographers andpizza purveyors insist they are happy to serve gays and lesbians and same-sex couples. They draw the line at facilitating/endorsing a ceremony they consider sacrilegious. (If a gay couple wants pizza for a New Years Eve party, no problem.)
Is refusing to bake or embellish a wedding cake for a same-sex ceremony discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, or simply a refusal to participate in -- and endorse the message of -- an activity? And is requiring someone to sell cakes or pizzas to a same-sex wedding really a "substantial burden" on their freeexercise of religion? We may find out as the Indiana law and others are tested in court.
Meanwhile, its worth noting that freedom of religion isnt the only legal weapon that potentially can be wielded by people in the wedding business who dont want to be complicit in same-sex nuptials.
Its widely believed that the political genesis of the Indiana RFRA was concern that anti-gay-marriage merchants would suffer the fate of Elaine Huguenin, a wedding photographer in New Mexico who didnt want to take pictures of a female couples commitment ceremony. The couple complained that Huguenins refusal violated a state law against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, and the states Human Rights Commission andSupreme Court agreed.
Huguenin tried several arguments. She said she wasnt really discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation, but the court rejected the distinction she tried to draw between sexual orientation and conduct so closely correlated with sexual orientation.
She also cited New Mexicos RFRA, but the court said that the religious-freedom law applied to only situations in which the government was a party not to disputes between private individuals. (Not very persuasively, the court said that the legislature and a court were not government agencies.) Interestingly, the Indiana RFRA made itclear that it would apply regardless of whether the state or any other governmental entity is a party to the proceeding.
So much for Huguenins religious-freedom arguments. But she made another claim based not on religious freedom but on another right enshrined in the 1st Amendment: the freedom of speech. As the New Mexico Supreme Court put it: Elane Photography [the name of Huguenins business] concludes that by requiring it to photograph same-sex weddings on the same basis that it photographs opposite-sex weddings, the NMHRA unconstitutionally compels it to create and engage in expression that sends a positive message about same-sex marriage not shared by its owner.
The New Mexico Supreme Court wasnt impressed by this argument, and neither, apparently, was the U.S. Supreme Court, whichdeclined last year to hear Huguenins appeal. But the issue could arise again.
The free-speech argument is arguably stronger than the religious-freedom claim. For one thing, its rooted not in a statute but in the 1st Amendment, which the Supreme Court in other cases has interpreted to prohibit compelled speech. (Perhaps the most famous example is the 1943ruling in which the court held that a state couldnt require schoolchildren to salute the American flag.)
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To learn more, visit: http://www.aco.nato.int http://www.flickr.com/groups/noblejump15 NATO will commence the process of testing and refinement of the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF) during...
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More than 1000 NATO military members participate in Exercise Summer Shield at Military Camp Adazi, Latvia, March 22-31, 2015. Summer Shield is an annual, multi-lateral exercise conducted to...
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March 11, 2015 - Members of paramilitary National Guard muster near Szczecin, Poland, as they ready to counter threats and contain crisis situations in their area. Across many eastern European nations, ordinary people are heeding a call to receive military training in case of war, backed by NATO forces on a mission to reassure citizens theyre safe from Russian aggression.(The Associated Press)
FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2014 file photo, Polish and British troops take part in a joint military exercise in Swietoszow, Poland, with more than 1,000 British troops participating. Across many nations of eastern Europe ordinary people are heeding a call to receive military training to learn what to do in case of war, and backed by NATO forces on a mission to reassure citizens that theyre safe from Russian aggression. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)(The Associated Press)
FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2014 file photo, Polish soldiers, center, and British troops, left and right, take part in joint military exercise in Swietoszow, Poland, with more than 1,000 British troops participating. Across many nations of eastern Europe ordinary people are heeding a call to receive military training to learn what to do in case of war, and backed by NATO forces on a mission to reassure citizens that theyre safe from Russian aggression. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)(The Associated Press)
In this photo taken in Tarnowskie Gory, Poland, March 24, 2015, one of some 550 reservists who were called on an hours notice for test range training is being security-checked before entering a chemical defense troops base. Across many nations of eastern Europe ordinary people are heeding a call to receive military training to learn what to do in case of war, and backed by NATO forces on a mission to reassure citizens that theyre safe from Russian aggression. (AP Photo/ Michal Legierski ) POLAND OUT(The Associated Press)
In this photo taken in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, March 5, 2015, Mateusz Warszczak, 23, fills out documents to register for voluntary military training in response to a call by Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak. Warszczak told The Associated Press he wanted to be able to defend his family in case of danger, as Poland's two neighbors, Russia and Ukraine, are involved in an armed conflict. Across many nations of eastern Europe ordinary people are heeding a call to receive military training to learn what to do in case of war, and backed by NATO forces on a mission to reassure citizens that theyre safe from Russian aggression. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)(The Associated Press)
WARSAW, Poland NATO aircraft scream across eastern European skies and American armored vehicles rumble near the border with Russia on a mission to reassure citizens that they're safe from Russian aggression.
But these days, ordinary people aren't taking any chances.
In Poland, doctors, shopkeepers, lawmakers and others are heeding a call to receive military training in case of an invasion. Neighboring Lithuania is restoring the draft and teaching citizens what to do in case of war. Nearby Latvia has plans to give university students military training next year.
The drive to teach ordinary people how to use weapons and take cover under fire reflects soaring anxiety among people in a region where memories of Moscow's domination which ended only in the 1990s remain raw. People worry that their security and hard-won independence are threatened as saber-rattling intensifies between the West and Russia over the conflict in Ukraine, where more than 6,000 people have died.
In Poland, the oldest generation remembers the Soviet Army's invasion in 1939, at the start of World War II. Younger people remain traumatized by the repression of the communist regime that lasted more than four decades.
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DUNDEE Two charter amendments are up for vote Tuesday in a special election.
One amendment would do away with the rule on majority votes and replace it with plurality of votes, meaning candidates for Town Commission who receive the greatest number of votes would be elected, eliminating runoff elections.
The second amendment would remove a date limitation on changes made to commissioner and the mayor's salaries. If the amendment passes, changes to their salaries voted on by the commission would take effect immediately rather than following a regular election.
The mayor is currently paid $4,500 a year and commissioners are paid $3,300 a year. There hasn't been a raise in 14 years.
Former council member Randy Dowd doesn't agree with the amendment. Although the Town Commission already sets the salaries for its members, he said there is ill intent to remove the date stipulation because the commission could give itself an unreasonable raise and receive it instantly.
Mayor Samuel Pennant spurred the initiatives. Pennant has said that even if the amendment about commission salaries passes, a raise would still have to be discussed and voted on during a meeting and the public could give its input.
Polls will be open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Dundee Community Center, 603 E. Main St.
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Conservatives emboldened by election victories are working to roll back gun restrictions in several states, while those on the other side of the debate are claiming success elsewhere in passing initiatives related to gun background checks.
On the pro-gun spectrum, for example, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback last week signed a bill to allow Kansans to carry concealed weapons in the state without training or a permit.
Second Amendment Foundation founder and Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb told Fox News, "I think the voters spoke pretty loud and clear in November and elected a pretty pro-gun rights Congress as well as many statehouses across the country and we're seeing now lots of bills being sponsored...".
On the other side, Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, said her group is focused on initiatives it can win with voters, rather than legislators.
"In 2013, we helped close the background check loophole in six states," Watts said. "In 2014, we helped pass laws in red and blue states to keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers."
Watts also pointed to the overwhelming passage of Initiative 594 by voters in Washington state last fall. That law expands the federal background check requirement for gun sales to private dealers, such as those now found at gun shows.
"The gun lobby has been so insidious in this country in taking away the responsibilities that go along with gun rights," Watts said. She added in an interview with Fox News that the National Rifle Association (NRA) has an annual budget of $350 million.
The NRA said that while its operating budget is close to that figure, a "small fraction" -- approximately $20 million -- goes toward what it calls 'political activity,' with the bulk spent on safety and training programs.
Moms Demand Action works with Everytown for Gun Safety, which is bankrolled by former New York City mayor and billionaire, Michael Bloomberg.
Chris W. Cox, executive director of the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA), told Fox News, "Billionaire Michael Bloomberg's tactics may be new, but the fight is the same. The NRA and our five million members stand ready to defend the Second Amendment wherever the battlefield. The majority of Americans do not want more gun control and we will fight tooth and nail to expose Bloomberg's lies and defeat his extreme gun control agenda. "
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