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Tell Patreon to ban man who made video about shooting David Hogg

9 September 2019 – a far right-wing, pro-gun blogger posted a video of himself using a high-powered rifle to shoot a life-size cardboard image of Parkland survivor David Hogg .

Frank Espinoza, sometimes using the name ‘LA Werewolf’ is known for controversy and has had his Twitter and YouTube accounts closed down in the past.

 

The crowdfunding website Patreon, meant for people to support artists and creatives they like, appears to still have an account for him where he earns about $300 a month according to Newsweek.

With his latest ‘performance art’ piece as he calls it, Espinoza has basically incited violence with his hate speech and action.  Ideally the law should be dealing with him.  In the meantime, it is not acceptable that he profits from activities that include threatening the life of David Hogg, one of the Parklands shooting survivors who is doing so much to stop further senseless gun deaths.

ACTION

Please contact Patreon through one of the channels below and give them the following message, personalized to your liking:

 

I am horrified to learn Frank Espinoza has a space on your crowdfunding site where he is earning an estimated $300 per month.  Please suspend his account permanently.

You will be aware of his recent video where he has made a life-size image of Parklands shooting victim David Hogg, who is now a campaigner for gun law reform.  Taking this image to a shooting range, Espinoza proceeds to shoot it some ten times with a high-powered rifle.

This is incitement to violence and is obscene as far as I am concerned, and I’m not alone in thinking that way.  I hope to see him face charges for this video, which to me is a death threat.  If Patreon continues to give him a method of making money, I will hold you morally responsible for any violence he inspires, and Patreon may well wind up being legally responsible too.

Your site is a great place for artists – why is Espinoza there?  Please reply and tell me that he has been removed for good.

Email: (form) https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=70716

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/patreon/

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/Patreon

 

Once you have made contact, fill out the three fields below and click the orange banner to report taking action!

 

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Share video with your reps of how an AR round explodes in the body

6 September 2019 – Against the backdrop of the recent assault rifle massacres, we still have the NRA and some politicians insisting that having an assault rifle is somehow a ‘right’.  Some of these people even claim it is a ‘god-given right’.  Most of those who favour assault rifles in public hands have received donations for having such a stance:  but how much do they actually understand of what an assault rifle does to a human body?

After assault weapon tragedies, we hear about the dead and what kind of people they were.  We see photos of mourners and floral tributes.  Many people in this group will fully understand what different kinds of rounds do to the human body, but the gory details of just how horrific being shot is get left out of the press coverage:  it’s too horrifying for the public to digest.    For instance after the Sandy Hook massacre, then Vice President Biden saw what happened, describing it as so horrific the American people would not be able to deal with it.  Maybe the public and lawmakers need to spend time thinking about that horror.

It is time that everyone was made fully aware of the difference between a handgun wound and an assault rifle wound – especially those lawmakers who, like Texas Governor Abbott, and Texas Rep Matt Schaefer, think having such a weapon is a right.  This action will ensure they can’t claim they were ignorant of the facts.

The image on the left shows a round entering a block of material simulating human tissues; in both a handgun or an assault rifle, the initial inch of an entry wound for both is the same – a straight path.  A handgun round is likely to stay on that straight path.  

If you are shot with a handgun, the velocity of the bullet is such that you may be ‘lucky’ – comparatively speaking – and get a wound that is a straight entry hole that can be treated.  The excruciating pain, shock, trauma and blood loss and the mental and emotional impact of such an event cannot be underestimated, physically treatable or not.

If you are shot with a AR 15 or other assault rifle, things are far, far more deadly.  For maybe an inch or so, the round makes a straightforward wound.  Then, because of the nature of the weapon, the velocity of the round:  the bullet will basically explode and create a cavity of destroyed, blasted, shredded tissue.

The image on the left (Vice News) shows that same block being exploded by an automatic rifle round; inside that ‘bubble’ from the explosive force of the round, tissue is being shredded and liquified.  

As one expert on the subject puts it, a handgun wound victim is likely to make it to the hospital; the assault weapon victim is far less likely to survive that long, and is likely to have injuries that cannot be remedied.  One radiologist who dealt with the aftermath of the Stoneman shooting told The Atlantic about one victim’s wounds, “Nothing was left to repair—and utterly, devastatingly, nothing could be done to fix the problem. The injury was fatal.” 

Some of our lawmakers put the ‘right’, ‘god-given’ or not, for people to own this kind of weapon over the right of children to life and to a life without fear,  without ‘live shooter’ drills.  Children are being made to accept such things are ‘normal’, which has psychological impact and which also can desensitize some to the gun death epidemic.

I am not going to apologize for the graphic nature of this action or for the contents of this video – which should be shared with every lawmaker who refuses to support reasonable gun law reform.  Here’s the link for the video; please do watch it if you haven’t already seen a video on the subject:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzagHPugEpo  

ACTION:

Please contact your state governor through one of the channels below and give them the following message, personalized to your liking (and please feel free to contact Mitch McConnell – who is sitting on federal gun law bills; Texas Governor Abbott and Texas Rep Matt Schaefer too).  This message is short enough for a tweet:

 

You must act to keep us safe from assault weapons: do you know a round from an assault rifle explodes in the body, liquifying tissues and organs?  If you’re for this, I’m against you. Watch this video: no one needs an assault rifle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzagHPugEpo 

Find your state governor here:  https://www.usa.gov/state-governor

Mitch McConnell
(form) https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contactform  Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/mitchmcconnell/
Twitter:  https://twitter.com/senatemajldr

Governor Abbott
Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/TexansForAbbott/
Twitter:  https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX

Matt Schaeffer
Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/MattForTexas/
Twitter:  https://twitter.com/RepMattSchaefer

Once you have made contact, fill out the three fields below and click the orange banner to report taking action!

 

 

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Tell Texas Governor he’s responsible for future Texas gun deaths

1 September 2019 – Last year, 2,490 Texans died due to gun incidents; the 2019 toll still rises.  Today, Governor Abbott signed a raft of ten bills that is guaranteed to make that number rise even higher.  This is against the backdrop of the very recent El Paso and Odessa gun massacres.

Governor Abbott said at the 2018 Dallas NRA convention: “The problem is not guns, it’s hearts without God.”  The problem is guns, ammunition, and the big money pushing out a pro-gun message via paid-for politician.

It’s a bit complicated figuring out what lobbyists, industries, individuals and charities have contributed to Abbott’s eye-watering $78 million campaign war chest,  but when he ran for governor in 2014, he got the NRA’s blessing and its ‘A’ rating.

He won’t face re-election until 2022, but he already raised $12 million for the campaign:  in a two-week period.

Texas needs a leader who is not in the NRA pocket and who will address the gun epidemic in Texas.  Abbott is currently making a big deal of a new initiative that will increase reporting of ‘suspicious activity’.  What he did before that was to make it impossible for churches and schools to ban guns, allow people to have guns in the streets during states of emergency (can you imagine the carnage?) and more – see here for details of the ten gun-law loosening bills he approved.   

ACTION

Please contact Governor Abbott through one of the channels below and give him the following message, personalized to your liking:

 

I feel sick to see you signed ten bills which further loosen gun laws in Texas. Knowing you did this in the wake of the recent gun massacres makes it all the worse.

I know that your campaign gets millions of dollars from a variety of sources; I know that you have an A rating from the NRA, and I know that you don’t come up for re-election until 2022.

But what I want you to know is that for every future gun death  in Texas that might have been avoided if you had acted differently, I hold you personally, morally responsible.

San Francisco has rightly deemed the NRA to be a terrorist organisation.  Its spokespeople have called for Democrats to be shot and journalists to be killed – specifically curb-stomped.  And you are proud to sign laws they endorse.

I am ashamed that someone like you holds office, and I will do my best to ensure anyone I know in Texas votes against you when they can.  I will certainly be avoiding those that fund you and/or donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to your inaugural party – such a HEB and AT&T.

You once said that ‘hearts without god’ are what causes gun violence.  Easily-available guns and ammunition are what cause gun violence:  and NRA-subservient politicians such as you.

I don’t think there is any remote chance you will rescind those ten laws – but you should.  Your new ‘suspicious activities’ programme does remotely exonerate you for the future deaths those ten bills will facilitate.

I will be watching developments in Texas closely.  Each time there is a further massacre, I’ll hold you responsible and will message you to remind you what you’ve done.  

Once you have made contact, fill out the three fields below and click the orange banner to report taking action!

 

Phone:  (512) 463-2000

Email: (form) https://gov.texas.gov/contact

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/TexasGovernor/
Twitter:  https://twitter.com/GovAbbott

 

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Reprimand Texas Rep who tweeted ‘guns are a god-given right’ after Odessa massacre

Odessa, TX 1 September 2019 – Seven people are dead and approximately 17 others are injured – including an infant – after America’s latest mass murder enabled by gun proliferation, Texas’s weak laws on gun control, and the NRA.

When gun law reform individuals and groups take to social media demanding change after tragedies, they are are always told by pro-gun factions ‘it’s too soon to talk about gun control’ or ‘don’t politicise shootings’.

However, it seems that Texas Representative Matt Schaefer feels he is not too soon in saying guns are a ‘god given right’ and that he will not do anything – not a single thing –  to stop the problem: other than praying.  He tweeted:

The picture (left) is of 17-month-old Anderson Davis – shot in the face by the killer.

Texas is about to further loosen its lax gun laws; we will take a separate action soon to the state governor.

#DoSomething is a social media hashtag that was created to link tweets and posts asking for gun law reform.

 

 

ACTION:

Please contact Matt Schaefer through one of the channels below and give him the following message, personalized to your liking:

 

For Twitter:

 @RepMattSchaefer You tweeted ‘guns are a god-given right’ after the murder of 7 and wounding of 17 in TX: this is unacceptable. Killing is not a god-given right, and AR-type weapons are for killing. You may want to resign and let someone who’s competent take over #DoSomething

(For Facebook, just use the message above, and customize it.  There is a long thread on his page where he is being condemned – let’s be counted in there too).

 

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/MattForTexas/

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/RepMattSchaefer

 

Finally, if you are in a position to make a donation, large or small (and many of us just can’t – that’s fine), here is the Go Fund Me link for helping Anderson Davis; she’s had operations, and is likely to continue to need them as she grows – probably for most of her life.  https://www.gofundme.com/f/17-month-old-that-was-shot 

 

Once you have made contact, fill out the three fields below and click the orange banner to report taking action!

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‘Good guy with a gun’ myth is destroyed: tell your elected reps

In an explosive Colorado Sun article, the myth of a ‘good guy with a gun’ who will stop school shootings is discredited forever:  tell your elected representatives they can never hide behind it ever again.

The Colorado Sun reports on findings following a deadly school shooting in May:  “STEM School Highlands Ranch asked the private security company hired last year to patrol the K-12 campus to make sure its security guards were unarmed.

“But when two students began a deadly attack at their school in May, the on-duty guard not only had a gun, but court records indicate he shot and wounded an uninvolved student while accidentally firing at a responding sheriff’s deputy.

“Additionally, the gun the guard was carrying appears to have been concealed because ‘STEM administration and leadership were not aware that the guard was armed,’ the school said in a written statement.”

The deadly attack by two students was bad enough – but this guard, concealing a deadly weapon in violation of the school district’s law, shot a student.

The security guard was apparently from the local sheriff’s office, and would likely have had weapons training from that role.

 

The NRA and its paid-for elected officials like to tell us that having ‘a good guy with a gun’ is the cure for any and all mass shootings:  after this excellent piece of investigation by the Colorado Sun, make sure that they don’t ever try to pull that myth again.

Imagine how terrifying it was for all those students – and for a student who was shot by a security guard who should not have had a gun in the first place.

Douglas County School District policy forbids private security guards from carrying concealed guns on its campuses.

ACTION:

Please contact your congresspeople through the link below (and by all means contact your State Governor if you wish too) and give them the following message, personalized to your liking:

 

The NRA makes the argument that mass shootings including school shootings can be stopped if there are armed personnel on site.  In a shocking case from Douglas County, CO, we now know that ‘good guys with guns’ do shoot innocent people.

The US gun slaughter epidemic  militarizing our schools, which should be carefree places for learning in a secure environment without the fear of violence or the need for petrifying active shooter drills,

Instead of creating meaningful gun laws, many politicians have been instead encouraging an escalation, and not only want to have armed personnel in schools, some are actually wanting teachers to cross-train as potential deadly force security.  The claim that ‘one good guy with a gun’ is the rallying cry for such NRA-funded representatives:  but after the Colorado STEM school incident in May, this logic has been discredited forever.

A security guard – who should not have been carrying a gun – had a concealed weapon.  When two students went on a murderous shooting rampage at the school:  this guard actually shot and wounded a student who was merely a bystander.

We know that many semi-automatic weapons fire many rounds per second, and many high-powered weapons can be used from a great distance:  having  an armed ‘good guy’ could not have stopped the Los Vegas massacre, and now we have proof that in the heat of an event, a ‘good guy’ is likely to shoot an innocent person.

I want to take this opportunity to ensure you know that in the next elections I will only be voting for candidates who have signed up to March for our Lives’ Peace Plan. If you haven’t signed, you need to.  I want you to write back at your first convenience and tell me whether or not you have signed.  You will not get my vote if you don’t, and I will be watching this closely.  Here’s where you sign up:  https://marchforourlives.com/peace-plan/ .

Find your congressperson here:  https://www.conginst.org/contact-congress/

Find your state governor here:  https://www.usa.gov/state-governor

Once you have made contact, fill out the three fields below and click the orange banner to report taking action!

 

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Take the NRA Survey and tell them how you feel

August 2019 – The National Rifle Association has a new survey, which seems more like a PR exercise and fundraiser – you are asked to donate after taking it.

The questions are of course loaded and not balanced as you would expect from the pro-gun lobbyists.

For instance the survey asks “Do you agree that law-abiding citizens should be forced to submit to mandatory gun registration or else forfeit their guns and their freedom?” – the NRA equates its false interpretation of the Second Amendment (they always ignore the ‘well-regulated militia’ portion of the amendment).

Why wouldn’t a law-biding citizen want their gun registered?  Is it against freedom then that people need to register their cars?

ACTION

Let us tell the NRA what we think of them and their survey.

Follow this link and answer their questions:  https://membersurvey.nra.org/2ASurvey/Survey3 .

One Pulse for America will not tell you how to answer them, but as a member of the group, we know you will tell the NRA you want guns registered and semi-automatic weapons off our streets.

Once you have made contact, fill out the three fields below and click the orange banner to report taking action!

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Support March for our Lives’ game-changing Peace Plan

August 2019 – March for our Lives, the gun law reform campaign group, has launched a new manifesto.

As Ladd Everett shared with One Pulse for America’s Facebook group yesterday, this is the deal:

March For Our Lives released a revolutionary new gun control policy document today titled “A Peace Plan for a Safer America.” It recommends:
1) National gun licensing and registration
2) Computerization of gun sale records
3) National gun buyback program to reduce American stockpile of firearms by at least 30%.
4) Repeal of legal immunity for gun industry
5) Blanket prohibition on online gun sales
6) Assault Weapons Ban
7) National requirement to safely store firearms and report theft/loss within 72 hours
8) Declaration of national emergency by president
9) Launch of public safety campaign to educate Americans about dangers of owning a firearm (homicide + suicide risk)
10) $900 million over eight years for community intervention programs in urban areas
11) Automatic voter registration at 18
12) Attorney General study questioning validity of the DC v. HELLER decision (2008) by Justice Scalia.
As Ladd wrote, “…Incredibly inspiring. This will change GVP advocacy for the better!”
One Pulse for America is only too happy to support this initiative.
ACTION:
Later on we will be taking an action to write to all  congresspeople seeking re-election.  For now, all you need to do is sign up for March for Life’s Peace Plan here:  https://marchforourlives.com/peace-plan/ – and ideally share it too.

Once you have made contact, fill out the three fields below and click the orange banner to report taking action!

 

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Thank Albuquerque Mayor Keller for life-saving initiative

Albuquerque, NM – The City of Albuquerque is pushing a new initiative to keep young people safe from guns.

KRQE reports Mayor Tim Keller signed an administrative instruction banning firearms from all of the city’s community centers, multi-gen centers, and senior centers.

He cited 27 gun offenses reported at these centers in a four-year period and a tragic  May 2013 shooting that killed an 8-year-old girl at the Alamosa Community Center.

In a press release the city announced it will have more information at a press conference on how it plans to address domestic terrorism in the mayor’s so-called “Project Guardian” initiative.

Doubtless pressure from pro gun groups will be on him and his administration:  that is why One Pulse for America will show him support.

ACTION:

Please contact Mayor Keller through one of the channels below and give them the following message, personalized to your liking:

 

I want to thank you for signing the administrative instruction banning firearms from all of the city’s community centers, which serve over 200,000 children.  I know that this is going to save lives.

I understand that 27 gun offenses were reported at these centers in a four-year period and there was a May 2013 shooting that killed an 8-year-old girl at the Alamosa Community Center.

Your  “Project Guardian” initiative sounds very promising, and it’s good to see a city take positive action on the country’s gun injury and death epidemic.

 Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller:

Phone:  (505) 768-3000

Email: (form)  https://www.cabq.gov/mayor/contact-us/email-the-mayor

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/MayorKeller/

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/MayorKeller

 

Once you have made contact, fill out the three fields below and click the orange banner to report taking action!

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Send Condolences to El Paso Shooting Widower

ACTION UPDATE:  17/8/19 hundreds attended the service, flowers and sympathy messages arrived from around the world. It’s things like this that remind me that most people are good at heart https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/16/us/el-paso-shooting-margie-reckard-funeral-trnd/index.html

El Paso, August 2019 – Mr Antonio Basco invited all of El Paso to attend the  funeral for his wife, murdered in the El Paso shooting.

A gunman with a white supremacist agenda killed several innocent people at an El Paso Walmart store .

While we should and do mourn for shooting victims all over the country, with the murder of his wife, Margie Reckard, Mr Basco now feels he has no one left.  The city of El Paso and the country have come out to pay their respects.

Please post a message here https://www.facebook.com/PerchesFuneralHome/posts/2867143899979615 or try email (but it is inundated) info@perchesfuneralhomes.com or follow the link to send condolences via the funeral parlour.

(Note:  This action was posted on Facebook yesterday; if you have taken the action, please fill in the fields to record that you have done so, thank you).

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Illinois mayor: cut militarized police raids after 12 year old shot

A woman whose 12 year-old child was shot by police in a dawn raid is suing.

On 26 May 2019, according to the lawsuit filed by Crystal Worship, the mother, some two dozen Country Club Hills and Richton Park, Illinois SWAT officers entered her home in May with exploding flash-grenades and automatic rifles to execute a search warrant intended for her boyfriend. During the raid, her  son, Amir, was allegedly shot by a white officer as he sat on his bed with his hands in the air and suffered a shattered kneecap.

Blasting News reported “As Amir started screaming, Ms Worship asked officers in the next room if they were “shooting” the children, the lawsuit says. Officers allegedly refused to tell her what happened and “lied to her and told her they shot someone walking past outside.” (-as if that were somehow acceptable or reassuring).

One child was cuffed and left in a police car according to the mother, and flash  grenades were used at 5am, terrorizing the household.

Were the police looking for dangerous terrorists, a cache of guns?  They were looking for Ms Worship’s boyfriend who had been accused of drug possession.  Those charges were since dropped.  And in the meantime, “According to an orthopedic doctor, Amir will not be able to play any sports again, will have difficulty in physical education, will walk with a limp, and will have difficulty walking and running for the rest of his life,” the lawsuit states.

The increasingly militarization of civil police forces is an issue – and people are being shot, killed, harmed.  Should someone sought for drug possession lead to 24 gun-toting police to break into a house?  It seems rights are a thing of the past.

ACTION

Please contact Illinois Governor  J B Pritzker through one of the channels below and give him the following message, personalized to your liking:

 

I am pleased to know you are looking after citizens’ rights and will not allow ICE to operate private facilities in the state.  I agree ICE is out of control and denying people their basic rights:  but so are your increasingly-militarized police force.

I read about the lawsuit filed by Crystal Worship after bungling, dangerously inept police raided her home, terrorised her family with flash grenades at 5am, had some 2 dozen masked, camouflaged, gun-brandishing men round her and her children up. The reason?  Her boyfriend was wanted on some sort of drug charge that was later dropped.  And in case you didn’t know:  they shot her 12-year-old child in the knee, and he will never play sports again.

Who is paying for all this military hardware, police time and planning over a drugs possession charge?  How many such raids are taking place?  How are they getting authorized?  With financial pressures on the state, is it really appropriate to continue like this?  What about rights?  Who will pay for this family’s suffering and their medical bills?

The situation is a disgrace and it needs sorting out at the gubernatorial level – clearly the police have lost all sense of perspective.  I expect to see you take action to help this specific family and to ensure that this kind of senseless, rights-destroying, terrifying raid is a rarity used only in the most extreme cases.  I expect to hear from you by reply.

Phone:  217-782-6830 or 217-782-6831

Email: (form) https://www2.illinois.gov/sites/gov/contactus/Pages/AssistanceRequest.aspx

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/GovPritzker/

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/JBPritzker

 

Once you have made contact, fill out the three fields below and click the orange banner to report taking action!