I read something recently, I think it was in relation to the UN initiative to curb
illegal weapon sales globally, that gun manufacturers actually can't survive
without illegal gun sales. That includes Ted Cruz as a supporter of the gun lobby, too.
The article below is not the article I am referring to. If someone in the USA Senate wants to tap some information from the United Nations they will find support for the initiative to ban assault weapons.
If I could wave a magic wand for the gun industry it would returning to TRADITIONAL roles of hunting and the antiques market.
The Republicans have no ideas to enhance the industry in the USA except to remove barriers to illegal sales internationally and increase the numbers of assault weapons being sold. It is where the NRA lives. The ranting about the Second Amendment is a faux face for the industry, both internationally and domestic.
The violence in Mexico and the idea of building a wall is to ATTEMPT to stop invasion of the drug cartels. The drug cartels are already here, ask any inner city mayor. But, the idea a wall along the southern USA border will stop the drug cartels and the gun trafficking into and out of the USA is nonsense. A wall has nothing to do with it. A wall traps Mexican citizens in a hell created by the NRA.
But, the fact of the issue extends beyond the USA borders. There are large amounts of guns sold on the internet and otherwise that supply rebel groups throughout the world. The illegal sales are intricate to the gun industry in the USA. Cutting the USA budget will enhance these illegal sales with lack of enforcement. Those sales then put our cities and citizens at risk. It is no minor component to the problem.
The Gun Industry will find a greater role in the USA if they promote hunting. Hunting has fallen in large measure across the country. Conservationists welcome hunters and recreational fishermen and women. Conservationists know the recreational use of lands help manage wildlife to healthy numbers and protects livestock as well as protects waters and land. Recreational use of our lands is no minor issue and quite frankly some the license fees is dedicated to conservation of our lands.
The gun industry has been lazy. Very lazy. They have welcomed monies that kill people to their sales of guns. That has to stop. The NRA should never have the stance that killing people is a proper place for weapons anywhere, including the USA. The idea military style guns in the USA protect liberty is a hideous aberration of criminality.
Internet sales and straw purchasers are a real problem to assist in illegal guns sales. It all has to stop and the gun industry has allowed the NRA to be an advocate to commit domestic and international crimes. The idea more guns are better has proven to be wrong and there are domestic and international venues of dead people to prove it.
The illegal sales internationally threaten sovereignty of stable governments. It is ridiculous.
The Gun Lobby Needs to Reinvest Itself Before it is too late
LEADERSHIP
illegal weapon sales globally, that gun manufacturers actually can't survive
without illegal gun sales. That includes Ted Cruz as a supporter of the gun lobby, too.
The article below is not the article I am referring to. If someone in the USA Senate wants to tap some information from the United Nations they will find support for the initiative to ban assault weapons.
If I could wave a magic wand for the gun industry it would returning to TRADITIONAL roles of hunting and the antiques market.
The Republicans have no ideas to enhance the industry in the USA except to remove barriers to illegal sales internationally and increase the numbers of assault weapons being sold. It is where the NRA lives. The ranting about the Second Amendment is a faux face for the industry, both internationally and domestic.
The violence in Mexico and the idea of building a wall is to ATTEMPT to stop invasion of the drug cartels. The drug cartels are already here, ask any inner city mayor. But, the idea a wall along the southern USA border will stop the drug cartels and the gun trafficking into and out of the USA is nonsense. A wall has nothing to do with it. A wall traps Mexican citizens in a hell created by the NRA.
But, the fact of the issue extends beyond the USA borders. There are large amounts of guns sold on the internet and otherwise that supply rebel groups throughout the world. The illegal sales are intricate to the gun industry in the USA. Cutting the USA budget will enhance these illegal sales with lack of enforcement. Those sales then put our cities and citizens at risk. It is no minor component to the problem.
The Gun Industry will find a greater role in the USA if they promote hunting. Hunting has fallen in large measure across the country. Conservationists welcome hunters and recreational fishermen and women. Conservationists know the recreational use of lands help manage wildlife to healthy numbers and protects livestock as well as protects waters and land. Recreational use of our lands is no minor issue and quite frankly some the license fees is dedicated to conservation of our lands.
The gun industry has been lazy. Very lazy. They have welcomed monies that kill people to their sales of guns. That has to stop. The NRA should never have the stance that killing people is a proper place for weapons anywhere, including the USA. The idea military style guns in the USA protect liberty is a hideous aberration of criminality.
Internet sales and straw purchasers are a real problem to assist in illegal guns sales. It all has to stop and the gun industry has allowed the NRA to be an advocate to commit domestic and international crimes. The idea more guns are better has proven to be wrong and there are domestic and international venues of dead people to prove it.
The illegal sales internationally threaten sovereignty of stable governments. It is ridiculous.
The Gun Lobby Needs to Reinvest Itself Before it is too late
LEADERSHIP
1/14/2013 @ 12:54PM
This article is by Hank Cardello, (click here) a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a consultant to industry, public policy institutes, and government agencies on socially responsible products and practices, and the author of Stuffed: An Insider’s Look at Who’s (Really) Making America Fat.
Last month’s shooting of 26 elementary school children and adults at a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school is beyond every parent and child’s worst nightmare. It has horrified the nation. As public outrage over mass shootings mounts, and as policymakers and gun-control activists rail for change, it’s time for gunmakers to do some soul-searching. If watching their products fall into the hands of dangerous people isn’t enough to move them, their profit motive should.
Here is why: Gun manufacturers that see their future narrowly as selling lethal weapons are leaving lots of money on the table for non-lethal personal protection devices. Further, by sticking to guns, firearms companies will risk facing legal battles of the type that have cost the tobacco industry hundreds of billions of dollars. A 2005 law largely shields gunmakers from those kinds of suits, but pension fund managers and other investors are nonetheless starting to act as if the tides have changed. If the legal floodgates open, the smaller and less profitable gun industry won’t be able to financially survive the attack that the tobacco companies withstood....
