Money talks. They manufacture and sell militarized guns and over the counter enhancements for money without conscience. If money is what they understand then they need to understand the power those that disagree.

Rham Emanuel as Mayor of Chicago, with its gun violence and murder rate isn't suppose to demand pressure to stop it? He has a responsibility.

If the city's unions are making the change and Rahm is worried about economic downturns because of the movement of monies out of those investments, then he has to speak up and let banks know they are headed in the wrong direction with loans and investments to gun producers.

There is nothing controversial about Rahm Emanuel's actions. He is the Bird in the Coal Mine. He is asking the banks to pay attention to the movement of monies and quite possibly out of their banks for reasons of social responsibility. I congratulate him.

January 24, 2013|By James B. Kelleher | Reuters

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A pension fund (click here) for Chicago public employees has voted to divest its holdings in three companies that manufacture assault weapons, an official with the fund confirmed on Thursday.

The Municipal Employees Annuity and Benefit Fund (MEABF) voted on Wednesday to sell off just over $1 million in investments in Freedom Group Inc, Sturm Ruger and Co Inc and Smith & Wesson Holding Corp, MEABF Executive Director Jim Mohler told Reuters....