Some Yutz are Prancing to Smith & Wesson
“The kids of America have to stand up when our irresponsible politicians won’t,” he said. “We’re here to elect morally just leaders that will protect us as Americans.”
Manuel and Patricia Oliver, the parents of a Parkland shooting victim, also joined marchers and condemned Smith & Wesson for making the powerful rifle used to kill their 17-year-old son, Joaquin Oliver, and 16 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Manuel Oliver said the weapon isn’t even allowed to be sold in the company’s home state because of Massachusetts’ strict gun laws. “That’s an ironic situation,” he said.
Yup, it seems the kiddies would like $5,ooo,ooo for some kind of proof that S&W is a responsible company. Defending the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution is now morally unjust and they are looking for leaders who will “protect them”.
Smith & Wesson has become a target for gun control activists because the company’s military-style rifles were used not only in the Parkland shooting but a number of other recent massacres, including the 2015 shooting at a California holiday party where 14 people died and the 2012 shooting at a Colorado movie theater where 12 died.
Thursday’s marchers emphasized they’re not looking to see the company, which was founded in 1852, move out of the state. They just want it to step up and do its part to make the country safer.
“I understand it’s important to the city and its employs a lot of people,” said Nate Lapointe, a 15-year-old high school junior from West Springfield. “But that doesn’t give them a free pass on selling weapons that are used to commit mass murder. At some point, we have to hold them accountable.”
Anyone out there know why S&W is still in a state that hates them and what they do.
March organizers also want Smith & Wesson to donate $5 million toward gun violence research because of the dearth of federally funded research on the issue thanks to restrictions imposed by Congress.
Supporting “commonsense” gun laws and respecting the constitutional right to bear arms aren’t mutually exclusive, stressed Vikiana Petit-Homme, a senior at Boston Latin Academy in Boston and one of the event’s lead organizers.
“You can still support the Second Amendment and still want to live and want stronger gun laws,” she said. “It’s not one or the other.”
There is a video and everything right HERE. They did not want their route to S&W announced because I guess they were afraid responsible leaders would not be able to protect them. I wonder if the thought of protecting themselves has ever crossed their frail little minds.
On a positive note, the Taurus G2C is now available for just under $200.
Gee Wiz…
What’s next…
Automobile Manufactors?
Ammunition Manufactors?
Pressure Cooker Manufactors?
🤔
Backyard swimming pools.
I see what you did, AW1Ed….😎
Hammers?
Airplanes?
Jeff! You forgot your funny punnies!
😉
AnotherPat;
A little sluggish this morning plus I didn’t have an egg for breakfast so I could not add in a nice Yolk.
AND knife companies, baseball bat manufacturers, golf club mfgers! how about axes, shovels….on and on adnauseum!
Nope. The wonderful thing about the ignorant amongst us is that cars aren’t vilified in a drunk driving death; the drunk driver is. The knife isn’t the problem in a stabbing; the person is. Only in gun deaths is it the gun that is at fault.
Old Trooper wrote:
“Only in gun deaths is it the gun that is at fault”.
Perhaps our legal system should put a gun on trial…and when found guilty, sentence the gun to prison..😉
On Automobile Manufactors: Was thinking more in the line of Terrorists using trucks/cars to mow down folks in heavy populated areas.
Yes, someone shoots one of those wildlife farm born & raised lions while on pay per animal safari in Africa & it’s the person fault for being a terrible person who likes hunting…someone goes crazy with a gun & it’s the guns fault.
The hypocrisy and stupidity of the left wingers, P.E.T.A types & anti-gunners knows no bounds & they have no shame.
Speaking of PETA:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/business/animal-crackers-barnums-nabisco-mondelez.html
Gee Whiz…
150 years that National biscuit sold the animal crackers and a couple of minority groups stopped the packaging pic design. Shows you that the squeaky wheel gets the oil
Take a look at Land-o-Lakes butter packaging. The indian girl holding the box was a great trademark and famous for the cute trick of cutting out her knees from another panel and tapeing them behind her chest. Then cut a viewing hole.
My own mother showed me that when I was a kid.
Under pressure, they recently caved to some group and changed the box.
And what is next? Tony the Tiger? Kibbler Elves? Lucky Charms Leprochan? Betty Crocker? Any US zoo?
Captain Crunch!
Mocking the disabled.
Dear God. Talk about first world problems.
It’s no wonder most of the planet hates us when we concern ourselves with such things.
Is it only me or do others see a TMR reticle over each & every one of those animals vital organs.
What about all those trees that fall on people, power lines, houses, and cars during wind storms? Nature has far too many dangers.
Grass is nature, so you can be for nature but with reasonable restrictions. Letting trees grow so large they endanger lives is unconscionable. I have a right to live without worrying about some giant piece of wood crashing down on me at any moment!
What about all these attacks with “assault knives.” When is there going to be assault knife control? The Brits have the “commonsense” solution; grind off the points of all knives. Of course, anyone who wants a pointed knife only needs a cheap grinder from Harbor Freight.
Friends of mine just moved back to the Great State of Texas after working in France for several years.
She just posted that it was nice to be able to carry a pocket knife again.
Europe has gone insane.
Yes to all the above.
I need to buy more ammo.
How come these brainwashed liberal, moronic little snow flakes don’t sue the car companies when some idiot mows down a bunch of people on the sidewalk DUH!!
Electing officials that will keep us safe….!?!??! I ask HOW? Are the officials that are elected, going to make an hourly patrol around your home? Are they going to stay by your side? Oh wait, will they off load that responsibility to….maybe an officer of the law….like a cop! Oh wait, that CAN’T happen, because y’all think all cops are crooked, haters and killers!!!
How about making a sensible decision in that muddled brain; there is only one person that can make you safe and that’s yourself. Don’t offload that simple task to someone else; as you will be sorely disappointed when that strategy fails.
Steve
Elected officials are only going to keep THEMSELVES SAFE!! imo
I was under the impression that the manufacturer of a product is not responsible for its misuse by a purchaser.
They can protest all they like. Smith & Wesson could move to Wisconsin, instead of Foxconn, which is having a backlash from Illinois over its proposal to contaminate the Des Plaines watershed (including wetlands and wildlife habitat and forest preserves and swimming holes) with water runoff from its proposed manufacturing plant.
All those Ruger hand guns stolen from freight boxcars on Chicago’s South Side railyards are on the streets now and have been for some time. Does that make Ruger responsible for what gangbangers do with them?
NOT!!!!
In point of fact Ex, there is case law in a number of states that says just that. An inanimate object used improperly is the fault of the user, not the object or the maker of that object.
The “Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act” might help answer some questions about that.
Back in the 1990s, S&W caved to anti-gun pressure and threw folks under the bus, in order to get partial relief from a bunch of BS lawsuits, and (of course) peferentil access to police procurement contracts.
Some folks still wouldn’t buy a new one if it cost a dollar.
If they were smart, and sadly they are usually not, they would tell these anti-freedom Jim Crow advocates to pound sand. Ideally, as they announced a move to a free state.
That sort of turn-around might actually help, you know, turn their business around and cause some folks to forgive.
The glaring reality is that the yearly purchase of modern sporting rifles by private persons -far- exceeds the purchase of -all- rifle-format arms by US Federal, State, and Local governments. (Including the armed forces). Likewise ammunition.
But apparently, someone still thinks that survival comes from strategic tossing of passengers to the crocodiles.
Mr. Barrett, however, stopped doing business with California when they banned civilian ownership of his arms. Bravo. Wish there were more folks with spine like that.
Hopefully S&W has a clue, this time around. Otherwise they may find folks even less willing to buy their stuff. If they fund Jim Crow, then boycott them.
If their company heads had any brains, they’d move out of Massachusetts to another state. Even Illinois might welcome them, despite their product line, because Illinois needs the jobs since Toyota closed the Bloomington plant.
S&W has a manufacturing facility in Houlton Maine. Excellent employer.
They make mostly LEO stuff there but do make firearms also.
Low taxes and cheap electricity from Canada.
26LB; Any idea why S&W does not move from anti 2A Mass? When I started with Brink’s back in 1970, the vault workers had Colt .32 autos and the truckers had a hodgepodge of Colt 4in. pencil barreled .38 Police positives, .38 Colt 4in. barrels and S&W mod 10 .38 4in. pencil barrels. dispatch carried 2in. .38 wheel guns but I don’t remember the makes and in the gun room, there were Mod 870 shotguns that were taken inside the trucks and around ten Montgomery Ward .44 cal. lever action rifles in the rack. Never used for obvious reasons and one of the Mgt. Peeps made an offer Brink’s couldn’t refuse and bought them. After 9/11 we went to the S&W Mod 4046 .40 and after I left, I heard they switched to the S&W M&P .40. We had a small range under the ramp going up to the street and while doing repair work down there, two Thompson subs were found and then turned over to ATF over at 90 Church Street. This happened before I started work there. An interesting 37 years on the “Trucks” I would love to write a book but Pittston would most likely buy up all the rights because they were under the impression that the general public thought that the job was on the level. Oh the stories.
“26LB; Any idea why S&W does not move from anti 2A Mass?”
Dunno. They are owned by a much larger outdoor group. Same question for Colt. Or any of the Connecticut firms of old.
$$$ are thicker than blood maybe.
Kudos to Ronnie Barrett. Hornady says it will not knowingly sell into NT after the SAFE act, too.
Worth noting that when S&W caved in to Clinton was 20 years ago, and they have been under different ownership since 2001.
I’m gonna take a test drive of the G2C, for sure!
Made in Miami. I prefer something made in America.
Might want to check out the Ruger EC9s, then. Roughly the same form factor, but single stack (mags hold 7 rounds). But also significantly thinner (a bit over 1/4″ thinner), so perhaps slightly more easily concealed.
Did a little quick checking and found one source selling it for approx $210; another for $230; and multiple for $250. Dunno how much for shipping or other fees, though.
Perpetual attention whore Hogg is among the marchers, ironically enough they are being escorted by ARMED police officers. Strange, guns are bad but they are okay to protect the lame asses on their shakedown of a company. Given the “character” of some of the denizens of Springfield, I hope they attempt to engage the gangbangers out there and try to convince them to give up THEIR guns – which I’m hopeful they will ‘happily’ turn over to these ass clowns one round at a time (then we can be rid of two sets of trash at once, a definite win-win for America).
Oh, the irony, on so many levels.
Meanwhile, I’d like to be stationed at each of their vehicles to inquire if they know how many people were killed last year by one just like it, even the school buses so often appropriated to transport these fine citizens to their prancing exercises.
Louisiana Halts $600 Million Deal with Banks over Corporate Gun Control
Entire article here—>
Guns America
Hit ’em where it hurts the most- right in the wallet.
Delta lost big, too. After they very publicly decided to stoop dealing with the NRA, a crucial airport fuel tax cut evaporated due to that. It is estimated it will cost Delta over $50 million.
“Manuel Oliver said the weapon isn’t even allowed to be sold in the company’s home state because of Massachusetts’ strict gun laws. “That’s an ironic situation,” he said.”… and you can’t drink whiskey at the Jack Daniels distillery, because it’s in a dry county… both of those statements have just as much relevance to the discussion… freaking idiots!
You can still support the Second Amendment and still want to live and want stronger gun laws,” she said. “It’s not one or the other.”
Oh, I get it. I support voting rights, but I would like stronger voting laws. For instance, I would like everyone who desires to vote to be literate, to take a civics test and score 100%, to be a citizen, and to speak English. I would also like motor voter to be stricken, early voting to be done away with, too, and I would like to see a universal requirement of two forms of positive ID for qualified voters.
I like the way you think about the right to vote. I would add the requirement that voters also be at least 25 years old and actually pay income or property taxes. No representation without taxation. Imagine the transformation of our politicians.
Good luck on the “pay your taxes” requirement. The 24th Amendment means that would require a Constitutional Amendment. Ain’t gonna happen.
The requirement for positive ID has a chance IMO. But I’d give its chances of becoming reality any time soon at less than 50%.
“We live in a country where massacres occur on a regular basis. This is insane, and yet while all of this is going on, Congress doesn’t do a damn thing.” Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass)
Let’s see. McGovern started working in DC for pols when he was 19, back in 1977, first as a volunteer, then as a paid gig. He attended college in D.C. while working for the election of George McGovern (no relation) That didn’t pan out for the McGoverns so he took a job working for a MASS critter until he was elected himself in 1996. So, put it all together and he has logged about 30 years in a congressional office. Thus, when he says, “Congress doesn’t do a damn thing,” his statement carries much weight. Unfortunately, he’s dead wrong. Congress does much. And that’s the problem.
Archie had it right long before we had TSA
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=archie+bunker+on+gun+control&view=detail&mid=32A6D1424102BF55869B32A6D1424102BF55869B&FORM=VIRE
Miss that show.
Somehow we were able to laugh at ourselves.
🎶”Those Were The Days”..🎶
Thousands of young people die each year in texting related auto accidents.
If these little Hitler Youth really cared about their safety, they shouldn’t mind if we install devices to make their dumbassphones inoperable in private vehicles.
They also kill other people while driving and staring at their phones. A millennial phone starer just killed a motorcycle officer and the driver of the truck he pulled over.
Smith & Wesson make great solid firearms at reasonable prices.
The M & P 9’s are great pistols, I’ve put several thousand rounds through mine and have had no problems at all with all kinds of ammo.
My Taurus G2 used to jam on FTF’s after about a hundred rounds. It didn’t happen a lot, but the Taurus warranty procedure is klunky as hell and they have had problems with the triggers breaking on them and then they won’t send parts to any other gunsmith as they say that they are not qualified to work on Taurus firearms.
So you are supposed to send it back and they will tell you in six weeks if they can fix it or if they will just send you another G2…..
So I switched to S&W and am glad I did.
I wish they would move to Texas, but, I have no idea why they stay in the NE Corridor.
I won’t live there, that’s for sure.
Interesting.
Manuel and Patricia Oliver, mentioned in the story, immigrated to the US in 2003 from Venezula:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article209327079.html
Just about the time Chavez took away all the civilian guns. About the time Chavez decided that he should be President for Life. About the time rampant inflation started. I wonder if these two woke individuals ever read or watch the news. I doubt it as they would know that gun confiscation is the first step the misery that is socialism. “Common sense Gun Laws”are the first step toward confiscation. Believe that!
Too bad we can’t ship them back to Venezuela where they could enjoy the fruits of some “common sense gun laws” and their enforcement by the new President for Life.
Self centered, attention whoring, egotistical, know nothing little twits. Is this more Soros $ at work? Who is funding all of the crap that is going on in our country? I have owned a multitude of different manufacturers bang bang products and not one has ever went off on it’s own. And no manufacturer has ever contributed/encouraged or not contributed and discouraged me or their product to do anything legally or morally wrong.
Blah, blah, blah, yada, yada, yada, give us five million dollars, blah, blah, blah. I get it now.