nashville tennessee, six innocence lost their lives. three of them nine-year-olds. the faces of these beautiful children are imprinted on my heart. like many parents in this country, i wake up in the middle of the night thinking about these families and praying for them. i cannot conceive of the depths of their pain. as americans, we need to have an open and honest discussion about how to protect our children, tomorrow. not decades from now, tomorrow. what is the real practical solution? what would actually save lives? republic in talk of health has merit but how do you fix this legislatively? it is hard to think about. it seems nearly impossible to fix the human heart or the human mind from the halls of congress. and as for the drumbeat for gun control, let s say just in theory, that you abolish the second amendment and ban guns entirely. that would fix precisely nothing. there are currently more than 390 million guns in this country. and even if you did try to confiscate th
Paul vaughn does not fit the profile of a terrorist. Youd never guess. Hes fifty five years old. Hes a former pastor who now runs a small Internet Service business in middle tennessee. He and his wife are gentle people. Theyre faithful christians. They spend most of their time raising their eleven children. So last wednesday morning at about seven fifteen bucolic scene at the vaun household, several of paul vons children are standing in the front yard about to head to school. Suddenly, out of nowhere, their world falls down around them. A team of fbi agents armed with automatic rifles swoops in in suvs and begins pounding on the front door of the family. Home inside the house. Paul ryan is watching this and is shocked. As he said later, when i open the door and saw the guns pointed at me, i asked them what they wanted. They said they wanted me and they did. The agents led paul vaughan away inside the house. His wife had been at the back with their newest child, an 18 month year old bab
For weeks. His wife now says that she believes that the Chinese Government is involved. In fact, no country has failed more journalists than china. This of course drawing comparisons to the death of jim okeechobee, and how the president is juggling all of this, and trace a Trace Gallagher with the live news. The missing photojournalist is a u. S. Green card holder who splits his time between new york and beijing, he has won numerous awards for capturing images that china considers sensitive like coal miners, patients, and drug addicts, the victims of chinas economic rise, but now his wife says that he has not been heard from since november 3rd when he was supposed to meet with fellow photographers in a remote province of an area of china that has recently been the subject of International Concern over reports that the chinese have built in internment camps to conduct reeducation of muslim and other ethnic groups. 1,000 chinese muslims have disappeared into those camps, in fact some say
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