Today's a good day to buy gun stocks

Since we had a mass shooting, the gun nuts will be swarming the stores again today. The NRA will be on the horn assuring them that the shooting means another assault on their Second Amendment rights, and the evil Obama will be seizing their guns again.

Never mind that these same gun nuts are the ones who keep doing the mass shootings that spur the same thing to happen over and over again.

And meanwhile the most important thing to happen in the past week or so wasn't in Washington, D.C. It was in Colorado, where the NRA invested $500,000 to recall two Democratic state legislators who had the nerve to vote for gun control legislation and who happened to represent Republican-leaning districts. The NRA bought a lot of political terror for a relatively cheap price.
By BearinFW | 09/17/2013 01:31 AM | 8 comments
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  • There is a sort of double-bind in it, for the meassage is, you have to be FREE to defend yourself (with a gun), so they are not selling death (of course they do) but FREEDOM with every gun they sell. This message will be very difficult to change, it is in the minds.
    And there IS another enterprise that has done the same unbelievable before. Tell all people, that they are guilty from birth on and that redemption can only be archieved by death in the right faith. If this isn't a masterpiece of public relations, tell me: You have to believe in a life after death and suffer a lot while living!
    art4you 09/18/2013 08:48 AM
  • There is a truly twisted relationship in this country between gun violence and the gun industry. I can think of NO other industry that actually profits from killing people, but that is exactly what the gun industry does. Mass shootings inspire people to go out and buy more guns. And on a less spectacular level, in neighborhoods in which people are killed, people are more likely to go out and buy guns. And of course, those guns make it more likely that more people will be killed, which in turn will inspire more people to go out and buy more guns, which will kill more people, and on and on.

    And just to make sure this cycle doesn't break down, the gun industry-funded NRA makes sure to send messages to its members encouraging them to buy more guns for personal protection or to scare people into thinking the government is going to take their guns away.

    This is insane.

    Even the much reviled tobacco industry has never profited from smokers dying.

    It's kind of the equivalent of a funeral home director going out and killing someone to bury and then charging their family for it.
    BearinFW 09/18/2013 01:05 AM
  • BeaerinFW, thanks for bringing this one up. I genuinely think we are becoming jaded about gun violence killing ten, twenty, thirty people, no matter what their age. Background checks with a waiting period would help. It's probably time to look at how other nations are doing it. Gun violence is WAY down in places where it is harder to get weapons. We treat them as if they are not killing machines with no need for restrictions. Blind people with guns? Crazy people with guns? Felons with guns? Why does the NRA want all these people to be armed to the hilt so they can kill 26 little kids and teachers in a school (read Sandy Hook). The main reason seems to be to make as much profit for the gun manufacturers as possible. Since around 90 percent of us want background checks, the question becomes "When will democracy overcome corporate greed?"
    rjzip 09/18/2013 12:28 AM
  • Gun control would be effective if we would pass restrictions and give them time to work. But people in this country have been brainwashed by the NRA's relentless nonsense. From my experience, people with large numbers of guns, unless they are collectors or hunters, tend to have some mental issues. Now were even exporting our Texas gun nuts.

    I would like to think that some day the American people will stand up to the gun industry, but its going to take a long and well-funded effort (a la the battle with big tobacco). At this point, politicians are so bought and paid for that it would take a tragedy of unimaginable proportions to even get their attention.
    BearinFW 09/17/2013 10:18 PM
  • Boy, is Jacker ever right about video. When it comes to TV (and now, to an extent, the Internet), whether there is dramatic video plays a huge role in determining the play of a story. They had it with Boston, not so much with this shooting.
    BearinFW 09/17/2013 04:43 PM
  • Dave, I think its a combination of the two. Plus we are bombarded with news from all kinds of sources 24/7. Had there been more shocking video, it would be a bigger story. Atrocities are common place on the news. I believe it hardens your outlook.
    jacker 09/17/2013 01:14 PM
  • I find it kind of curious that on the local news this morning they devoted 1 minute and 30 seconds to the story. Are we complacent about these stories or was it the fact that the age range was the mid 40's to the mid 70's?
    fenwaydav 09/17/2013 11:29 AM
  • Yesterday sort of shoots down the theory of "all we need to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun".
    barney290 09/17/2013 09:31 AM