Snoop Dogg and a host of athletes, musicians, actors, tech types and singers tell their stories about growing up around gun violence, to encourage people to talk to their financial advisors and tell them to unload any gun stocks in their 401K. It's quite the roundabout way to deal with gun violence. Kind of like if I were to start a movement boycotting Hawaii because it grows sugar, in an effort to stop type two diabetes.
Sorry to get all Occam's Razor but seems like getting criminals who use guns off the streets and into prisons might be a quicker answer. Or fixing the education system so that people who come from lower socio-economic backgrounds are given a chance to rise above their status and not have to turn to crime out of desperation. Then again that would take effort. And for people who don't really care because they aren't effected by this issue, but still want to look like they do care, a low-rent answer is the easiest way to "make a difference."
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I hear you Mr. Curmudgeon, but in our gun happy freewheeling shoot-em-up society just having these folks even speak about gun control is a major feat. The point here may be to hit them where it hurt most, in the wallet. Divestment started apartheid awareness, maybe this can do the same.
Since the horrors of Aurora, CO and Sandy Hook haven't even started the conversation about gun control, I'm glad someone is trying doing so.
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Permalink"Since the horrors of Aurora, CO and Sandy Hook haven't even started the conversation about gun control, I'm glad someone is trying doing so."
Former New York City mayor Bloomberg pledged 50 million to push new gun measures. Also you might have heard of a group called Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense In America?
To suggest "the conversation about gun control hasn't even started" is highly incorrect. Unlike this ad though, the other groups are actively lobbying congress for change and not just talking or picking a way around it
As for divestment, that may have started the conversation back in the 1960's but it went nowhere until the 1980's when actual divestment in Apartheid South Africa began. At that point the topic was everywhere. I should know as I was one of those high school kids writing letters on behalf of Greenpeace to free Mandela.
My point again, is talk is cheap, and hitting someones' wallet is a simplistic answer to the issue in that is neither fixes the true socio-economic problems that enable or perpetuate gun violence, nor does it address mental illness as being another root cause, nor does it really have any baring on a gun manufacturers' bottom line. Big surprise, but gun manufacturers sells guns to our military, so the government is just as implicit in their success.
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PermalinkGun sense is a good idea, I just don't see how a choddy will ever convince me of anything.
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PermalinkBwahahahahaha
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