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Americans favor tougher gun laws by margins that have grown wider after a number of mass shootings in recent months, but they also are pessimistic that change will happen any time soon, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll.

Nearly two-thirds of respondents expressed support for stricter laws, with the majority favoring nationwide bans on the sale of semi-automatic assault weapons such as the AR-15 and on the sale of high-capacity magazines holding 10 or more bullets.

The percentage of Americans who want such laws is the highest since the AP-GfK poll started asking the question in 2013, about 10 months after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in which 20 children and six adults were killed.

High-profile shootings also appear to have taken a toll on Americans’ sense of safety. Strong majorities of those polled expressed some degree of concern that they or a relative will be a victim of gun violence or a mass shooting.

“If you live in the United States in these days right now, you have to be concerned,” said Milonne Ambroise, a 63-year-old administrative assistant from Decatur, Georgia. “You could be on the street somewhere. You could be at a shopping mall thinking there will be a mass shooting and you will be in the middle of it. You can’t not think about it.”

Ambroise, a native of Haiti who moved to the US nearly 50 years ago, said she was now much more alert and on guard whenever she is in public.

“I’m looking for exits. This isn’t something I did before,” she said. “What if I have to run? Where’s the exit? Where would I go?”

The level of concern about being victimized is not uniform, however. Non-whites are significantly more likely to be very or extremely concerned.

BUDAPEST—Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Saturday expressed support for U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, citing Mr. Trump’s views on fighting terrorism.

Mr. Orban said Mr. Trump’s proposals for the U.S. would also help Europe solve its security issues in wake of recent terrorist attacks.

The European Union’s current political leadership has failed and should undergo a major revamp to stem the rising fear and insecurity among the European people, Mr. Orban said in Baile Tusnad, a town in Romania’s Transylvania region, which has a large number of ethnic Hungarians.

The Hungarian premier’s annual Baile Tusnad speech gained international interest in 2014, when he rejected liberalism and expressed admiration for “illiberal democracies,” listing Turkey or Russia, among other countries.

Since Mr. Orban came into power with a landslide victory in the 2010 general elections, the Obama administration has criticized Hungary several times for alleged state corruption, failure to observe freedom of religion and shortcomings in following the rule of law.

“The EU is incapable of defending its own citizens, its own external borders, unable to hold together its community—as reflected in the exit of the United Kingdom. What else is needed to state that Europe’s current political leadership has failed?” Mr. Orban said.

The U.K. voted in a referendum last month to leave the bloc.

The EU made mistakes when it increased the powers of the European Parliament, let the EU’s executive, the European Commission, act over the heads of the council of prime ministers, and made decisions without the full agreement of all member states, Mr. Orban said.

On July 24 2016 13:28 Plansix wrote:
It won't, because no one trusts that tabloid.

Miley Cyrus is pledging to leave the country if GOP White House hopeful Donald Trump becomes president.

“Honestly f--- this s--- I am moving if this is my president!” the 23-year-old “We Can’t Stop” singer wrote to her more than 38 million Instagram followers on Wednesday.
In a lengthy post that included photos of a smiling Trump next to Texas hunter Kendall Jones, alongside a separate snapshot of a teary-eyed Cyrus, the controversial entertainer wrote, “I don’t say things I don’t mean!”

(CNN)The head of the Democratic National Committee will not speak at the party's convention next week, a decision reached by party officials Saturday after emails surfaced that raised questions about the committee's impartiality during the Democratic primary.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, whose stewardship of the DNC has been under fire through most of the presidential primary process, will not have a major speaking role in an effort "to keep the peace" in the party, a Democrat familiar with the decision said. The revelation comes following the release of nearly 20,000 emails

On July 24 2016 15:14 OuchyDathurts wrote:
Isn't Utah like a super weird corner case of a state because of all the Mormons? Trump lost the Primary in Utah to Cruz in a massive land slide, he lost to Kasich even.

On July 24 2016 08:32 biology]major wrote:


it's such an open and desperate way to win over the latino vote. I hope hispanics watching his attempt and sucking up by trying to speak spanish repeatedly are put off by it.

Conservative Twitter users erupted on Friday after the social media platform torpedoed #DNCLeaks from its trending-news feed after Wikileaks released 20,000 emails by Democratic National Committee staff members.

Embarrassing emails sent and received by DNC members had enough momentum to propel the story to Twitter’s top “trending” news feed on Friday afternoon. The #DNCLeaks entry vanished in the evening, but returned 20 minutes later after users cried foul.

The story had 250,000 tweets at the time it was pulled. The Washington Examiner then aggregated a stream of angry feedback.

“Don’t normally tweet political things, but why would @twitter pull the #DNCleaks from trending at #1. Sounds like censorship to me,” one user wrote.

“Twitter is still trying to censor this trend! Now #DNCleak is trending instead of original #DNCLeaks! Keep talking guys, expose corruption,” added another.

“.@Twitters @google actions tonight by trying to stop @wikileaks #DNCLeaks #DNCLeak is a prime reason We need MONEY out of POLITICS,” said a third person.

On July 24 2016 16:07 CorsairHero wrote:
Looks like the DNC got a hold of the republican donor list
wikileaks released it

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On July 24 2016 19:39 BallinWitStalin wrote:


Wat. I am sorry, but that is a ludicrous statement. You wear your biases out on your sleeve in this thread. Which is fine, everyone has a bias, but at least own it. Don't try to pretend to some kind of shallow objectivity to try to push whatever point you're trying to make.

On July 24 2016 05:21 Godwrath wrote:
@Nyxisto i am not asking about nowadays. Somewhere, and somewhen it had to start. I believe that the answer is probably somewhere in the middle between both.


Hmm, are the margins really that low to make it impossible to stay at the same price or to atleast not have a massive bump? I thought your vegetables/fruits were kinda expensive already.

On July 24 2016 19:39 BallinWitStalin wrote:


Wat. I am sorry, but that is a ludicrous statement. You wear your biases out on your sleeve in this thread. Which is fine, everyone has a bias, but at least own it. Don't try to pretend to some kind of shallow objectivity to try to push whatever point you're trying to make.