You’re Probably Spending Money on the Gun Industry. This Woman Wants to Help You Stop.

[SecularMotion]

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This summer has been a particularly violent one for the United States, from the massacre of nine parishioners in Charleston to an alarming spike in the rate of gun homicides in many U.S. cities. Ask 45-year-old Jennifer Fiore, co-founder and executive director of Campaign to Unload, what’s going on and she doesn’t equivocate: "This is not a mass shooting issue, or a domestic violence, suicide, or police shooting issue alone—it is all of those and more, and it affects all of us, white and black, urban and rural, rich and poor. Only if we work together can we make change."

As a coalition of more than 50 organizations representing over 20 million Americans, Campaign to Unload aims to make that kind of large-scale collaboration happen through a series of smaller campaigns intended to hit irresponsible gunmakers where it hurts: their sources of funding. Maybe you saw Snoop Dogg’s video urging viewers to make sure their 401(k) portfolios didn’t include investments in gun manufacturing. Or perhaps you read The Nation’s piece advising UC Santa Barbara to divest from the gun industry in the wake of the 2014 shooting that resulted in six deaths there. If so, you’ve seen the results of Campaign to Unload’s efforts.

http://magazine.good.is/articles/local-globalist-jenn-fiore-campaign2unload

[Nuclear Unicorn]

1. "if we put the corporate gun lobby in check."

Hypocrites gotta hypocrite, I suppose. They can organize and speak but nobody else can, it seems.

With a dose of blatant propaganda --

Or perhaps you read The Nation’s piece advising UC Santa Barbara to divest from the gun industry in the wake of the 2014 shooting that resulted in six deaths there.

Would that be the shooting where half the victims were stabbed?

[Duckhunter935]

3. I noticed that, lol

subtle lie with the hope of it not being called out. That is why organizations like this will never get much respect. Like to see where the funding comes from.

[hack89]

2. If she reaches out to gun owners and is resonable in her goals, I would listen to her.

but then controllers like you would promptly throw her under the bus.

[friendly_iconoclast]

6. "(C)ontrollers like you would promptly throw her under the bus." It's happened at DU:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1262&pid=9118

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1262&pid=9120

[Travis_0004]

4. Why the hell would I do that?

I have some stock in Smith and Wesson, and its up about 80% this year.

Its actually pretty high right now, so I could sell it, and use the profits to buy a. . . . .smith and wesson revolver.

Thanks for the advise Secular Motion!

[ileus]

5. How dumb...if I stop how will I ever get the CZ85 and Sako I've been saving for.

Poor Jennifer....probably buys into the "all people are good, but guns send them to the dark side." She should have stuck with AOL.

If these peeps really wanted to make a difference they'd recommend people divest from drugs and gangs. They'd also focus on proper mental health care in the US.

But they're not interested in changing society because that means depriving some folks of their freedom of expression. This is nothing but repackaged "guns kill people" thinking.

[DonP]

7. Sooo, does the Marlin 39A I bought, made in 1938 count?

I wonder if that counts as "supporting the corporate gun lobby"?

I bought it from a local gun store on the used rack, but according to the serial number the Marlin people made it in 1938. It shoots .22 S, L and LR and holds up to 26 shorts.

Does that also make it an "Assault Weapon" in some states?

[pablo_marmol]

8. Keep suppressing the fact that gun violence is 1/2 of what it was in '93..........

.........while describing it as an "epidemic"!

[Eleanors38]

11. This is why the terms of debate have been re-scrambled.

No more "mass murder," but instead "mass shooting," better to pump up the volume. And re-definitions and "new studies" which reveal much higher "gun violence®" rates than what the FBI (and other agencies) have reported. Lots of "epidemics," (to pump up the old public health model), "spikes," "sudden increases," and the like.

This dynamic was and is still used in WOD debates.

[beevul]

9. Another controller who wants to attack gun violence by targeting the people not committing any...

Another controller who wants to attack gun violence by targeting the people not committing any, put forward by another controller who supports going after the people who aren't the problem.

I'm shocked.

[Eleanors38]

10. I've always supported boycotts as a means of political change...

So much power is in the hands of elites and corporations, some measure of revolt and action must be available to the public. It's a slop-shot method, often failing and over-used. One thing is clear from this effort: It relies on established "organizations representing over 20 million Americans..." Cantilevered potentialities, but not a grassroots movement. Again, this is an elitist effort whose change model is prohibitionism: Throw Any anti-gun idea/action against the wall and see what sticks. I doubt this effort will go very far if for no other reason than it signals raw culture war which, save for an ever-compliant MSM, has not resonated with the public, armed or un-armed.