nation. On December 14th 2012, a gunman walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut with an AR-15 and murdered 20 children, ages six and seven, beautiful children, and six young staffers. Five years later, a gunman walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida with another AR-15 and murdered 14 children and three staff."

Between just these two shootings, Congress did precisely nothing to remove weapons of war from our streets, nothing to tighten background checks, nothing to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous individuals. In the wake of Sandy Hook, many of us hoped we’d see change. Instead, things have only gotten worse. In the five years since Newtown, the Gun Violence Archive reports there have been at least -- listen toIt only took one day before Trump was back on the reservation, reminded that the NRA had laundered something like 30 million dollars in Kremlin money into his campaign. That shut him up fast.Business Insider is keeping track of how Putin got lots of rubles into Trump's 2016 campaign through Alexander Torshin and the NRA.

[Torshin assistant Maria] Butina was one of several Putin-allied Russians who attended Trump's inaugural celebrations.The US's former ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, told the Washington Post it was "strange" that so many Russia-linked individuals attended Trump's inauguration.But Ned Price, a former CIA analyst who served as Senior Director of the National Security Council under President Barack Obama, said he wasn't surprised."This team courted and potentially colluded with the Russians since day one without any