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>Belen was born in Argentina and came to the United States on a visitor visa with her parents when she was 6. They overstayed their visas and have been living in the US undocumented. In 2012, she qualified for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).

>DACA allows eligible undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US as children to come out of the shadows and obtain valid driver's licenses, enroll in college and legally secure jobs.

>"I decided to make the post because I really wanted to bust the myth that undocumented immigrants don't pay taxes and don't contribute to this country," she said. "We are the subject of scapegoating, especially during the Trump era," she added.

>A 2016 study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found that undocumented immigrants pay nearly $12 billion a year in state and local taxes.

>Sisa, a political science student at Arizona State University, said this is her fourth year filing tax returns.

>She said she encourages other DACA recipients to follow her and post on social media about paying tax.

If she's undocumented, how can she pay taxes?

>>126790
>Paid $300 in taxes in arizona
>State tax rate implies she makes ~12k a year

>Can walk into a hospital, recieve treatment, walk out without leaving a real name and taxpayers eat it
>Went to a public school on state and federal tax dollars
>Can call the police/fire department anytime
>If given the right to vote, will certainly demand the rest of us pay for more gibs
>Her pittance doesnt even cover the cost of the plane ticket back to Argentina.

>>126794
Taxes can be collected from anyone, the IRS couldnt care less what laws of man you break as long as they recieve their cut

Now random pieces here and there:

>“Last month, we were faced with a sudden and drastic increase in security costs amounting to more than a third of our entire existing operating budget…[which] stemmed directly from the very public threats of violence against one another by members of this community, as well as the negative backlash from misinformation spread about the convention, its staff and attendees,” the announcement of the convention’s cancellation, written by one of the board members, “Sorin,” said.

>“Therefore, Rocky Mountain Fur Con 2017 is officially canceled,” the message continued. “I will no longer continue to subject my staff and our community to the lies, hate, violence and slander that was disseminated by a small, vocal minority.”

>The backlash against the convention for canceling was immediate.

>“Wow. You guys could not have made a worse decision,” wrote one person on the convention’s Facebook page.

>“I got engaged at this con and this [was] also the con I went to on my honeymoon. That just ruined everything for me,” wrote another person.

>“Love how instead of handling the situation like adults you instead shut everything down in hopes it will all just go away,” wrote another.

>The intricacies of the story were first reported on the Dogpatch Press, a blog devoted to news about the furry community, in a post published Monday called “Rocky Mountain Fur Con backs neo-nazis, sex offender to intimidate critic for reporting threat.” There was also a post made on Flayrah, another furry-devoted website, on Monday as well that covered the allegations.

>The series of incidents that led to the cancellation of this year’s convention were set in motion during last year’s convention, if not earlier, when the “Furry Raiders,” a group of Denver-area furries, were accused of breaking convention rules by booking hotel rooms that were part of the convention’s discounted room block ahead of their availability opening, angering other attendees. (They later released some of the rooms.)

>“The Furry Raiders self-create an ‘us vs. them’ situation by provoking others so they can pretend to be treated unfairly,” the Dogpatch Press wrote.

>One of the leaders of the Furry Raiders, a Fort Colins man who goes by “Foxler Nightfire” (an apparent combination of Fox and Hitler, according to many in the furry community), usually wears black shirts and a red arm band similar to those worn by Nazis, but with a paw print instead of a swastika. Foxler was photographed making a Nazi salute at one point (screenshot from Twitter below), then used the hashtag #altfurry in another tweet, which he pinned to the top of his profile.

http://media.thedenverchannel.com/photo/2017/04/11/Screen%20Shot%202017-04-11%20at%208.32.24%20PM_58121876_ver1.0.png

/pol/ confirmed for furries

>But the group has taken to making more armbands, though not all are as similar to those worn by the Nazis and are fashioned in different colors, including a tie-dye one and a rainbow one. A tweet from the group said it had given out 53 of the arm bands by March 24.

>A group of anti-fascist furries started to combat the Furry Raiders and other furry groups accused of being involved with pseudo-fascist and purported neo-Nazi groups.

>At one point, one of the “antifa” furries threatened on Twitter to “punch these Nazis,” setting off a string of replies – one of which involved the threat of a shooting, which was reported to Twitter.

>This came as RMFC banned some of the Furry Raiders' signature regalia.

http://media.thedenverchannel.com/photo/2017/04/11/Screen%20Shot%202017-04-11%20at%203.29.47%20PM_58121845_ver1.0.png

>Then, the person who reported the threat was reportedly banned via a letter from the Rock Mountain Fur Con by Kendal R. Emery, the man who is listed as the registered agent of Mid America Anthropomorphic and Art Corporation, the nonprofit head corporation of RMFC.

Actually fuck it, too much stuff to post.

>The Consumer Technology Association, which supported the proposal, declined to comment. The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, which opposed the proposal, welcomed its demise.

>"The FCC is making the right decision not to pursue lifting the ban on in-flight calls," said Taylor Garland, a spokesman for the labor union. "The traveling public and crew members do not want voice calls on planes."

>Asked whether the union also took a position on the use of cellular data on planes, Garland said "due diligence requires a thorough assessment of the potential security risks… and mitigation of any risks."

>While most consumers may have difficulty getting a cellular signal at 30,000 feet, changes in technology are increasingly enabling the use of cellular networks in the air. Communications satellites, drones and even lasers have been proposed as ways to get connectivity to hard-to-reach areas. This could ultimately mean more competition against in-flight WiFi, which is often derided as expensive and slow.

>Had Wheeler's proposal been approved, it would have fallen to individual airlines to decide how and when to equip their planes with equipment to support in-flight cellular service. In a testimony before Congress, Wheeler said that the Federal Aviation Administration would work on crafting a rule to address voice calls on planes. The FAA had previously ruled that it is safe to switch on small electronic devices during all phases of flight, provided the devices are on airplane mode.

Who cares

>>130989
Anyone who flies on an airplane and wants to use their cellphone.

Drain the swamp?

>How might this work? Mr. Trump could pocket proceeds, for instance, from the seven condos sold at a Trump luxury high-rise in Las Vegas since his election. CBS News has confirmed the transactions at the building, which is operated by Trump Ruffin Tower LLC. According to CBS News correspondent Anna Werner and investigative producer Laura Strickler, the sales total for the seven units was $2.3 million.

>The revised trust agreement was released by the General Services Administration, or GSA, a federal agency that oversees the basic functioning of the government.

>The government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington labeled Mr. Trump’s amended trust agreement as demonstrating the “inadequacy” of the separation between him and his company. The trust set up “only the appearance of separation,” a spokesman for the watchdog organization said.

>Richard Painter, the White House ethics counsel under George W. Bush, condemned the latest move as “illustrating that Trump controls the business” and called it a “conflict of interest.” To Painter, now a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, the only way to avoid conflicts is for the president to erect a blind trust, where his assets are completely segregated from his knowledge and control, with trustees having the power to sell them.

>If people know Mr. Trump is profiting from a specific transaction, they could seek something in return, warned real estate trust lawyer Fred Tansill, who practices in suburban Washington D.C. People dealing with the Trump administration, he said, “may feel that they have the abiility to buy favorable treatment from the president and that’s a terrible appearance for our democracy.”

>White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said on Monday he was uncertain if Mr. Trump had taken money from his trust and didn’t answer a question about whether the president would make a disclosure if he did so.

>Mr. Trump receives a $400,000 yearly salary as president, and on Monday donated his first three months pay to the National Park Service. By law, presidents are exempt from conflict of interest rules for government officials.

>Still, it’s a convention for presidents to adhere to the rules, and they often used blind trusts. U.S. senators also can take money from trusts they establish, but there’s a difference with the Trump situation because senators must house their assets in blind trusts.

>Questions about how deeply involved the president can be with his businesses have cropped up with the announcement of the trust in January. While control of the company passed from Mr. Trump to Donald Jr. and Weissenberg, along with his other adult son, Eric, there is no legal stricture preventing him from being involved in company operations.

>Mr. Trump has pledged to get reports only on the Trump Organization’s basic financial performance, although that has no force of law. Eric Trump told Forbes magazine that he intends to brief his father on company doings.

>Another controversy surrounding Mr. Trump’s purported conflicts involves the Trump International Hotel, which is located in the Old Post Office building near the White House. One ethics law a president must obey is a constitutional bar on receiving money from foreign governments. Known as the “emoluments clause” in the U.S. Constitution, this provision is meant to shield the president from foreign bribes.Critics say foreign powers might seek Mr. Trump’s favor by staying at his hotel.

>But a recent ruling by the GSA, which owns the hotel site, concluded the facility is not in violation of its lease by accepting rental income that benefits Mr. Trump. Their reasoning: The funds would be held by the hotel and not be funneled to the Trump Organization. But it is not clear what will happen to the money once he leaves office.

>“I think most of our caucus wants to work with them,” said Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) in a recent interview, referring to the GOP. “But it requires working in a compromise way.”

>But cooperation with their GOP counterparts — and possibly even with Trump — is a risky move for congressional Democrats, who are being pressured by the more liberal wing of their party to obstruct the GOP and Trump at all costs. Part of that energy is playing out in the Senate over the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, as Democrats have vowed to block his confirmation, potentially leading to an explosive fight next week to change Senate rules.

>Hill Democrats are betting voters will view any attempt to compromise on spending as further evidence that the fractured GOP is unable to govern. If the talks fail and a shutdown approaches, voters might then blame Republicans for failing to keep the government open despite their control of the House, Senate and White House, several Democratic aides reasoned.

>There is a sense among many Democrats that bipartisanship isn’t necessarily toxic, even in an environment in which ardent liberals continue to protest at town hall meetings. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other Democrats think voters see Democrats taking steps to defend existing policies — such as battling the American Health Care Act or blocking funding for a border wall — and understand the big picture.

>“It’s an interesting time,” Pelosi said “Let’s understand and let the public understand what the debate is.”
...

>Without Democratic help, Republicans are unlikely to unite behind a temporary spending plan to keep the government open past April 28. That does not even address the larger battle expected to take place over the fiscal 2018 budget in which Trump has proposed a $54billion increase in defense spending to be compensated for by cuts to 18 domestic agencies and programs.

>Democrats have already flexed their muscle by refusing to support the funding of Trump’s border wall as part of the temporary measure. They also rejected a proposal by the Trump administration to include in that measure a $30billion spike in defense spending and $18billion in cuts to domestic programs.

>“I think it’s clear that putting border money into this without a plan for how it’s spent is unacceptable,” said Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.).

>But that doesn’t mean Democrats won’t support some minor compromise on defense spending and border security. Some Democrats have privately floated the idea that they might be willing to tap an off-budget war fund to help pay for some increases in defense and border spending, an idea neither Pelosi nor Schumer would rule out.

>“We would not be opposed to any border security measures that are not the wall — increasing technology,” Pelosi said at a Thursday news conference. “There are better things that we can be doing.”

>Schumer was similarly supportive.

>“If they asked for $200million for more electronic surveillance and drones on the border, I don’t think that would cause many hackles in our caucus,” he said.

>Republican leaders appeared in recent days to be open to that kind of compromise. Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) said leaving defense spending increases and money for the border wall out of the short-term spending negotiations wouldn’t be a dealbreaking problem.

>“It doesn’t mean that you can’t come back to that smaller package and see if there’s not some future way to do it,” Blunt said.
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>But any appetite for compromise could end next week, when the two sides are expected to clash over Gorsuch’s nomination.

>Democrats are planning to exploit Republicans’ narrow 52-48 advantage in the Senate to slow a vote on Gorsuch. Schumer said he will force Republicans to get 60 votes on a procedural motion before the Senate can vote on the nomination.

>Fallout from the very public battle over Gorsuch could play a critical role in whether spending talks stay on track. Democrats privately fear Trump will grow angry over the spectacle and demand funding for the wall, aides said.

>There is also a chance GOP members and Trump will cool off during a two-week Easter recess just before a final spending deal is expected. Members of the Appropriations Committee hope to spend that time negotiating roughly 200 remaining issues, including Republican attempts to roll back some Obama-era financial regulations.

>Clashes over similarly tacked-on provisions, typically known as “riders,” have for years prevented Congress from completing the regular appropriations process. Democrats have uniformly rejected Republican attempts to attach to spending bills riders that attack Planned Parenthood, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street regulation legislation.

>“We want legislation that meets the needs of the American people and does not have the poisonous riders in it,” Pelosi said Thursday. “We have to see the substance of what is in the bill.”

>Those fights have been somewhat muted this year as Republicans have used other means to begin chipping away at regulations implemented under President Obama. Congress has already taken steps to roll back Obama’s Clean Power Plan and regulation of streams, two issues Republicans previously tried to address through riders.
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>>131198
>The previous administration’s approach, DeVos said, was inconsistent and full of shortcomings. She didn’t detail how the moves fell short, and her spokesmen, Jim Bradshaw and Matthew Frendewey, didn’t respond to requests for comment.

>DeVos’s move comes a week after one of the student loan industry’s main lobbies asked for Congress’s help in delaying or substantially changing the Education Department’s loan servicing plans. In a pair of April 4 letters to leaders of the House and Senate appropriations committees, the National Council of Higher Education Resources said there were too many unanswered questions, including whether the Obama administration’s approach would be unnecessarily expensive.

>>131199
>A recent epidemic of student loan defaults and what authorities describe as systematic mistreatment of borrowers prompted the Obama administration, in its waning days, to force the FSA office to emphasize how debtors are treated, rather than maximize the amount of cash they can stump up to meet their obligations.

>Obama’s team also sought to reduce the possibility that new contracts would be given to companies that mislead or otherwise harm debtors. The current round of contracts will terminate in 2019, and among three finalists for a new contract is Navient Corp. In January, state attorneys general in Illinois and Washington, along with the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, sued Navient over allegations the company abused borrowers by taking shortcuts to boost its own bottom line. Navient has denied the allegations.

>>131200
>The withdrawal of the Obama administration guidelines could make Navient a more likely contender for that contract, government officials said. Navient shares moved higher after the government released DeVos’s decision around 11:30 a.m. New York time. Navient stock ended up almost 2 percent.

>The Obama administration vision for how federal loans would be serviced almost certainly meant the feds would have to increase how much they pay loan contractors to collect monthly payments from borrowers and counsel them on repayment options. Already, the government annually spends around $800 million to collect on almost $1.1 trillion of debt. DeVos, however, made clear that her department would focus on curbing costs.

>Industry groups welcomed the vote.

>“Our industry remains committed to offering services that protect the privacy and security of the personal information of our customers,” said NCTA — The Internet and Television Association, a trade group representing major cable providers. “We support this step toward reversing the FCC’s misguided approach and look forward to restoring a consistent approach to online privacy protection that consumers want and deserve.”

>Consumer and privacy groups condemned the resolution.

>“It is extremely disappointing that the Senate voted today to sacrifice the privacy rights of Americans in the interest of protecting the profits of major Internet companies, including Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon,” Neema Singh Giuliani, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a statement.

>The FCC didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

>The agency's rules are being debated as Internet providers — no longer satisfied with simply offering Web access — race to become online advertising giants as large as Google and Facebook. To deliver consumers from one website to another, Internet providers must see and understand which online destinations their customers wish to visit, whether that's Netflix, WebMD or PornHub.

>With that data, Internet providers would like to sell targeted advertising or even share that information with third-party marketers. But the FCC's regulations place certain limits on the type of data Internet providers can share and under what circumstances. Under the rules, consumers may forbid their providers from sharing what the FCC deems “sensitive” information, such as app usage history and mobile location data.

>Opponents of the regulation argue the FCC's definition of sensitive information is far too broad and that it creates an imbalance between what's expected of Internet providers and what's allowed for Web companies such as Google. Separately from Congress, critics of the measure have petitioned the FCC to reconsider letting the rules go into effect, and the agency's new Republican leadership has partly complied. In February, President Trump's FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, put a hold on a slice of the rules that would have forced Internet providers to better safeguard their customer data from hackers.

>The congressional resolution could render unnecessary any further action by the FCC to review the rules; Flake's measure aims to nullify the FCC's privacy rules altogether. Republicans argue that even if the FCC's power to make rules on Internet privacy is curtailed, state attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission could still hold Internet providers accountable for future privacy abuses.

>But Democrats say that preemptive rules are necessary to protect consumers before their information gets out against their will.

>“At a time when our personal data is more vulnerable than ever, it’s baffling that Senate Republicans would eliminate the few privacy protections Americans have today,” said Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (N.J.), the ranking Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Pallone added in a statement Thursday that he hoped his House Republican colleagues “will exercise better judgment” when it becomes their turn to vote on the resolution.

>On Wednesday, Senate Democrats challenged the idea that the FTC could take responsibility for regulating Internet providers' privacy practices.

>“The Federal Trade Commission does not have the rulemaking authority in data security, even though commissioners at the FTC have asked Congress for such authority in the past,” said Sen. Bill Nelson (Fla.), the top Democrat on the Senate Commerce Committee.

>The child told police he had learned to drive by watching YouTube videos.

>The boy drove 1.5 miles (2.4km), covering four intersections, railway tracks, and several turns, Mr Koehler told Cleveland news outlet Fox8.

>The children's parents were asleep at home, reports said, when the siblings decided to take the vehicle keys.

>The two children got cheeseburgers and chicken nuggets while they waited to be picked up by family. No charges were filed.

what race its the kids

>>131737
I don't think they're old enough to race yet.

>>131420
>“Lying to children about the world we live in to further corporate polluter profits is cruel,” said Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), ranking Democrat on the Committee on Natural Resources in a statement released last week.

>Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) of the Committee on Education and the Workforce told educators, “Public school classrooms are no place for anti-science propaganda, and I encourage every teacher to toss these materials in the recycling bin.”

>“Is this a belated April Fools’ Day joke?” wrote Heartland executive director and CEO Joe Bast in response to the lawmakers’ statement. “If not, it should be. This is hilarious.”

>Distributing materials on matters of public policy is part of Heartland’s mission, he said, “And no, we’re not going to stop because you happen to disagree with us.”

>In an interview, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas), the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, said that besides drawing attention to the issue, lawmakers have few options.

>“It’s unfortunate that they are willing to skew information and put it in the minds of young people,” she said. “But in a free society, you can spread your information as you see fit, so there’s hardly anything we can do.”

>>131421
>Heartland has spent decades promoting doubt about climate change, and it embraces a variety of arguments to that end. At its 12th annual climate change conference last month in Washington, D.C., some speakers claimed that climate change isn’t happening. Others conceded it is happening, but that humans aren’t at fault. Others still argued that even if humans are the cause, change won’t be so bad for the planet.

>The organization has long had allies in the Republican party, but its influence has grown with the election of President Donald Trump, who has called climate change a hoax. Trump chose Myron Ebell, a longtime ally of Heartland, to run his transition efforts for energy and the environment. Trump’s appointed administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, has also expressed doubts about the human role in climate change, and as attorney general of Oklahoma sued the very agency he now runs 14 times, including over a plan to regulate climate-warming emissions.

>Among Heartland’s most influential allies in Congress is Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), chairman of the House science committee and a keynote speaker at Heartland’s climate conference last month.

>Asked about the mailing campaign, Smith’s spokeswoman, Kristina Baum, defended Heartland’s right to distribute what it wants.

>“The Heartland Institute is welcome to send materials to schools, at no cost to taxpayers, whenever they want, just as environmentalist organizations routinely do,” she said.

>>131424
>The executive director of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), David Evans, said he was not aware of any such mailings from environmental groups. And representatives for a number of leading environmental groups, including Greenpeace, the Nature Conservancy, the Sierra Club and Climate Reality, said that while they have created educational materials, they have never blanket-mailed them to schools.

>Heartland spokesman Jim Lakely said in an email that the organization’s mass mailing campaign is its “attempt to counter the wholly one-sided, alarmist presentation of climate science ” that is currently “deeply embedded in the curriculum of our public schools.”

>Despite the scientific consensus around the human role in rising temperatures, there is no uniform national standard for how to teach global warming — each state sets its own science standards. Some of those guidelines are clear about how to teach climate change to children, while others send mixed messages about it.

>To help guide teachers after Heartland’s packages began arriving in schools, Evans sent a memo to all 55,000 NSTA members reinforcing that scientists do not disagree about the causes of climate change, and referring educators to curricula supported by established climate science.

>Evans said he first heard about the materials on a discussion board for science teachers. The comments were overwhelmingly negative, he said. “One person’s recommendation was to shred it. ‘I would hate for someone to find it and think it was reputable,’” Evans said, quoting a message on the board.

>>131730
Well it's kind of in the job description for press secretary to do that.

conspiracy site under attack

I hope he does sue them.

The whole hit piece implies that someone that has a criminal record is somehow not entitled to human decency and it's less wrong to treat them that way.

Any proof/source for that?

Sounds like corporate damage control more than anything. No matter how big of a piece of shit Dao was, he didn't deserve to have his face busted open just because he didn't want to take the $800 seat swap deal with the United crew. Good try at muddying the issues at hand though. I'm sure some people will now say he deserved whatever he got because of this hitpiece.

>>130884
Is it legal to bump passengers after they've been seated in a plane?

>>130884
Shitty practice but they have the legal ability to force seated passengers to leave the plane if it is still at the gate. He refused to comply with cops, and got injured as a result of resisting. I hope he doesn't get a dime in court.

>>130886
As long as it's still at the gate. They must be reimbursed, and put on the earliest available alternate flight.

Thursday, Tillerson urged Russia to "consider carefully their continued support of the Assad regime."

>>129585
But Trump told me we weren't going to get involved in Syria! Hillary was gonna do all of it!

>>129590
go use one of your other threads to talk about politics and please let this one be about the news

Sure if you enjoy polluted countryside and soaring global temperatures i guess

>>131375
Shh, you'll give the conservatives brain aneurysms.

>>131374
Positive relations with China is a good thing, but trading in shitrocks will hold us both back.

>>131375
They're going to pollute anyway, we may as well profit off of them while we can.

Tighter controls were later imposed but they were largely ignored. After pro-democracy demonstrations on Tiananmen Square were crushed in 1989, the government moved to toughen enforcement and in 1996 passed a law that formally banned citizens from owning guns.

In 2008, just months before the national shooting team cleaned up at the Beijing Olympics, the rules were widened to include further restrictions on replica weapons. Possession of a firearm can carry a prison sentence of up to seven years.

Even so, sales of replica arms are soaring, and websites like "Armshead" and "Ironblood" allow people to trade gun-related news and images, according to police.

Criminals are also using guns more, especially those involved in the drug trade in the south, Chinese news media report.

Over the last few years, there has been a spate of cases where people have been jailed for owning guns they thought were toys.

In one example, a former solider in northeast China was held in 2016 for six months because police discovered he had five air rifles in a collection of military models he started when he was a boy. He still faces trial.

In August 2015, an 18-year-old in southeastern China was given life in jail for ordering 24 imitation guns from Taiwan — 20 guns turned out to be real, according to the South China Morning Post. He has since been told his sentence would be commuted.

China's government defends strict gun laws to guarantee public safety, but critics say the real reason is to prevent rebellions.

“The Chinese government took away people's guns to prevent them rising up,” said Zhou Xiaozheng, a sociologist at Renmin University. “Do you think they would be able to demolish peoples' homes if they hadn’t?" he said, referring to the government's broad right to seize private property.

The Chinese government publicizes mass shootings in the United States, where there are an estimated 300 million firearms, according to the Congressional Research Service.

There are no official figures for gun-related deaths in China, but media reported only 25 last year. In the U.S., annual firearm-related deaths exceeded 33,000 in 2013, the latest figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Ironically, China is one of the world’s largest small-arms producers.

And state-owned manufacturers may be helping stoke public interest in guns. China North Industries Corp. owns one of the country’s few public shooting ranges outside of Beijing. China South Industries Group publishes a bimonthly magazine for gun enthusiasts called Small Arms. The magazine also has an active social media presence where it posts pictures and details of weapons to Weibo, China’s equivalent to Twitter.

“(The 2008 law) had the effect of criminalizing harmless behavior, of putting people, who present no threat to society, in jail,” said Deng Xueping, a Shanghai lawyer who specializes in gun cases.

The result has been more Chinese going overseas to shoot and hunt.

Han Weitian, 33, of Beijing, visited Wong's club in Florida last May. Pictures on social media show him firing an automatic rifle on an open range.

“Chinese ranges fix their weapons to the bench,” Weitian said. “This felt free, like real shooting.”

>>130576
>In the U.S., annual firearm-related deaths exceeded 33,000 in 2013

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm

2014
All homicides
Number of deaths: 15,809
Deaths per 100,000 population: 5.0

Firearm homicides
Number of deaths: 10,945
Deaths per 100,000 population: 3.4

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/suicide.htm

2014
All suicides
Number of deaths: 42,773
Deaths per 100,000 population: 13.4

Firearm suicides
Number of deaths: 21,334
Deaths per 100,000 population: 6.7