The Defense Department denies offering instruction in abusive interrogation techniques. But U.S. Army Special Forces advisers say they trained select Salvadoran soldiers in what they call “negative-incentive” methods.
David Kopel has established himself as an independent authority on gun policy, even though he and his Independence Institute have received over $1.42 (now over $3) million or about $175,000 a year from the NRA.
What was the mother of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter thinking? Trying to find a way to help her troubled youngest son, whom she brought him to area gun ranges where other, well-adjusted young men practiced.
“Poor Al he was a Sharp guy,” begins the description of a gun target firm’s newest “Life-Sized Tactical Mannequin Target.” With a dark skin tone and features that seem to resemble the civil rights figure the Rev. Al Sharpton.
Since the first inauguration of President George W. Bush–the ATF provided no national data on “crime guns.” But that changed after the Sandy Hook tragedy and the second inauguration of President Barack Obama.
After the horror of the Newtown shooting, gun reform advocates expected to finally see a change. Yet six months later nothing had changed.
Anydoubt about where the gun lobby may be headed after the Sandy Hook school shooting ended fast, after NRA leaders endorsed the CEO of the firm that made the gun used to kill children.
