While visiting the Philippines Donald Trump slams President Obama for refusing to meet with President Rodrigo Duterte because he was killing suspected drug dealers without benefit of a trial.

Pres. Trump previews visit to Philippines, "where the previous administration was not exactly welcome, as you probably remember." pic.twitter.com/UBcgr0r1qq

— Evan McMurry (@evanmcmurry) October 31, 2017

Courtesy of Raw Story: Before and after his trip to the Philippines this week, President Donald Trump pumped himself up by repeating a story about his predecessor, Barack Obama, being barred from even touching down in the island nation.

The problem: That's not true. 

As pointed out by political journalists Tuesday, Trump's claim that Obama "didn't land" in the Philippines because of his "horrible" relationship with the nation misinterprets the entire situation.

It was Obama, in fact, who canceled a meeting with Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte in September 2016 after the two leaders got into a tiff over the mass killings in the Philippine drug war.

Trump keeps making this bizarre false claim about Obama. What actually happened was Obama, in advance, cancelled a planned Laos meeting with Duterte, who’d insulted him and his mother. He wasn’t stranded in the sky above Manila. https://t.co/69ziOf5ro5

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 14, 2017

What, was Obama too good to sit down and talk to a mass murder who was arbitrarily killing his citizens without allowing them the benefit of a trial first?

Barack Obama pandering to humanitarians.

Political correctness run amuck is what that is.

But not Donald Trump, hell no! Donald Trump admires strong men who know how to keep their people in line.

In fact Donald Trump will even work with one to steal an American election.

That's how accepting Trump is of dictators, oligarchs, and butchers.

Study finds that most mass shootings target women and families, and are perpetrated by men with legally purchased weapons.

Courtesy of Alternet:

A new analysis of 56 mass shootings across America since 2009 finds women and family members are the most frequent victims, and that the shooter almost always acquired his guns legally, in cases where the gun source is known. 

“In at least 32 of the cases (57 percent), the shooter killed a current or former spouse or intimate partner or other family member, and at least eight of those shooters had a prior domestic violence charge,” the Mayors Against Illegal Guns report on mass shootings said, suggesting that the problem of gun violence is far more related to violence against women in homes than rampages in public settings such as schools and theaters. 

The study also found that in the cases where the source of the guns was known, almost all were acquired legally: only two examples were given of mass killings with a stolen or illegal gun. That finding runs counter to the gun lobby’s oft-cited rhetoric that only criminals abuse guns. 

“We had sufficient evidence to judge whether the shooter was a prohibited gun possessor in 42 of the 56 incidents,” the report said, referring to laws barring ex-felons, mentally ill people, drug addicts and other categories of people from owning guns. “Of those 42 incidents, 15 (36 percent) involved a prohibited possessor and 27 (64 percent) did not.”

You know personally I already knew this to be true but it is good to see it backed up with data.

Now the only question is can we get it out to the public at large, and help to change the debate that has for too long been shaped by the NRA and other 2nd Amendment fetishists?