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- "Obama takes aim at Trump and the Republicans over guns as he defends execution action saying: 'This is not a plot to take away everybody's guns'"--Daily Mail. No. It is a plot to make it harder for law abiding people to buy or sell guns. Hence, it should have no impact on the Democratic core constituencies.
- Related: "BREAKING: ATF Issues Final Ruling on NFA Trusts, Eliminates CLEO Sign-Off for ALL NFA Paperwork"--The Truth About Guns. Short take: Although the new rule requires all "responsible persons" in a firearms trust to undergo a background check, it eliminates the requirement that the local chief-law-enforcement-officer approve the transfer of an NFA item: one of the primary reason for people having used a trust in the first place.
- Related: "President Obama’s Executive Orders: What They Mean and Their Impact On You (Especially NFA Item Owners)"--The Truth About Guns. Short take: the President's "executive action" is weak and pretty much just tells the ATF to exert more effort at enforcing the current laws against the unlicensed selling of firearms.
- Related: "One thing Obama's gun plan can't take away"--USA Today. Stocks in firearm companies surge in value.
- Mass murder in China: "China bus blaze: 17 killed and 32 injured after public transport was set on fire in suspected arson attack in Yinchuan"--Daily Mail.
- Hundreds of Arab and African men sexually harassed/assaulted women in Cologne on New Year's Eve. Per the Washington Post: "More than 90 criminal complaints were filed, and about a quarter of them cited sexual harassment or groping, with most others citing theft, Cologne Police Chief Wolfgang Albers said at a news conference on Monday night. Small groups of men would emerge from the larger crowd to surround, harass and sometimes steal from women, Albers said." There was also one allegation of rape. But, from an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, is this: "'It's completely improper ... to link a group that appeared to come from North Africa with the refugees,' [Cologne's mayor] Reker said." In other words, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it must be a zebra.
- "Human-machine Superintelligence can solve World's Most Dire Problems"--Scientific Computing. "The combination of human and computer intelligence might be just what we need to solve the 'wicked' problems of the world, such as climate change and geopolitical conflict, say researchers from the Human Computation Institute (HCI) and Cornell University." Ultron.
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