…Or, Trump meant to comment on Tuesday’s shooting at the Rancho Tehama Elementary School in northern California which left at least four people dead and several injured, but he included the wrong town in his post.

The tweet was timestamped at 11:34 p.m. and remained live as of early Wednesday morning.

People online were quick to express their anger over the blunder …

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• Just 3% Of Adults Own Half Of America’s Guns – Just 3 percent of American adults own half of the nation’s firearms, according to the results of a Harvard-Northeastern survey of 4,000 gun owners. The survey’s findings support other research showing that as overall rates of gun ownership has declined, the number of firearms in circulation has skyrocketed. The implication is that there are more guns in fewer hands than ever before. The top 3 percent of American adults own, on average, 17 guns apiece, according to the survey’s estimates. The survey is particularly useful to researchers because it asked respondents not just whether they own guns, but how many and what types of guns they own. This makes for one of the clearest pictures yet of American gun ownership, showing the concentration of most guns in the hands of a small fraction of American adults. … Read the Rest

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Fire & Fury: New Book Lays Out A Landscape Of ‘nasty daily clashes’ In Trump’s Volatile White House

By Joanna Walters & Edward Helmore
The Guardian (11/14/17)

An explosive new book promises to blow the lid off a volatile White House that skidded from crisis to crisis in the first nine months of Donald Trump’s administration and is awash with intrigue “so corrosive and lethal” it threatens to “paralyze the new presidency”.

Provocative media critic and columnist Michael Wolff has written what is billed as the first inside account of the inner workings of the Trump White House in a “shocking, fly-on-the-wall” account that portrays a fiery but inexperienced president surrounded by warring factions of advisors and officials.

“My goal was not to write as an outsider looking in, but to find out what the insiders were really thinking and feeling,” Wolff told the Guardian on Tuesday.

Sources say Wolff was present at critical junctures, including the morning in May when FBI director James Comey was fired without apparent forewarning from Trump to any of his West Wing inner circle.

The author, who has known Trump since his days as a reporter at New York Magazine, began showing up at the White House soon after the inauguration last January. He found a relatively porous environment, with most figures relatively accessible and able to speak freely, the Guardian has learned.

His access, while not entirely official, came after he’d written up an interviewwith Trump in the Hollywood Reporter seven months earlier. Sources say Trump liked the story and commented “cool cover”, at the time.

Wolff set out to write the book as an account of someone chatting in a fairly open way with most of the players in a unique period of US governance.

“While most people took the position that everyone should be hostile to these people, I was not particularly hostile. That allowed me to get them to be relatively open,” he told the Guardian.

The point is, he continues, “I showed up with no agenda. I was there out of curiosity, and I got there by leveraging an amount of goodwill I had with these people.” …

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