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Vice President Dick Cheney inspects a flintlock rifle given to him by the National Rifle Association while he is surrounded by NRA officers Sandra Froman (L), CEO Wayne LaPierre (C), and NRA President Kayne Robinson (R) during the 133rd Annual NRA convention being held at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center on April 17, 2004 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Cheney spoke to NRA conventioneers about the Bush administration’s support of second amendment rights.

The most recent mass killing of American children (at least to the best of my knowledge) has happened in Mike Johnson’s district:

Eight children ranging from 1 to 14 years old were killed in a mass shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana, on Sunday morning, according to police.

Officers with the Shreveport Police Department responded to the 300 block of West 79th Street just after 6 a.m. following reports of a domestic disturbance. Police spokesperson Christopher Bordelon described the crime scene as “extensive,” spanning two homes in the area and a third on Harrison Street nearby.

“You have three different scenes, the shooting itself occurred just down the road over here, the 300 block of West 79th,” Bordelon said at a news briefing. “There’s also another shooting related to this on Harrison Street, and then there’s an adjacent residence on West 79 where one of the victims ran to after the shooting.”

Ten victims in all were shot, police said, not sharing any information on the two who survived. Pictures from the scene showed a large police response.

The good news about the Second Amendment as it has been interpreted by Republican-nominated judges in the 21st century is that it makes it inconceivable that any kind of authoritarian government could successfully obtain power in…I’ll come in again.

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