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Wall Street May Be Rethinking

artappraiser — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 10:25:15 +0000

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Wall Street May Be Rethinking Its Relationship With Guns

By Laura Colby & Polly Mosendz @ Bloomberg.com, Feb. 22, 8:01 PM EST

Week after Florida shooting, a bank abandons NRA credit cards
BlackRock, pension funds start to rethink their gun stocks

[.....] On Thursday, the day the head of the National Rifle Association issued a searing rebuttal to calls for stricter gun control, the nation’s largest privately owned bank announced it would stop issuing NRA-sponsored credit cards.

Then, the investment giant BlackRock Inc. said it was exploring ways to cull gun companies from the portfolios of clients who no longer wish to invest in them. In Florida, site of the latest tragedy, teachers expressed frustration that their retirement funds own gun stocks, following revelations that holdings included the maker of the assault rifle used to kill 17 students and educators at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

Activists have made similar appeals for years, only to see all the moments pass. Taken together, the recent developments suggest that, at least for the moment, the financial community senses the rising public pressure -- and is positioning itself accordingly.

“Now is the time for the financial services industry to step off the sidelines and take a stand,” said Jonas Kron, director of shareholder advocacy at Trillium Asset Management, which focuses on sustainable investments.

The question is whether other investors, both big and small, are willing to exit investments that have plunged in value over the past year. Gun sales -- and gun stocks -- have tumbled since Donald Trump rose to the presidency. The thinking was that his administration, unlike the previous one, would be unlikely to push for stricter gun controls given its support from the NRA.

Guns and Pensions [....]

Nonsense, he loves hysteria.

artappraiser — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 22:58:54 +0000

In reply to Defusing the hysteria being

Nonsense, he loves hysteria. Gun rights supporters shouldn't trust him to protect their interests further than they can throw a stick.

Defusing the hysteria being

Peter — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 22:14:01 +0000

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Defusing the hysteria being promoted by the leftist/commie gun grabbers is a rewardless task because reason no longer applies. Trump did what he could without compromising his gun ownership rights support but it won't be enough for the gun grabbers it never is. The snowflakes don't have much else to offer voters in the next election so Stalinist individual rights attacks will probably be their game plan.

Meanwhile I find it

artappraiser — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 19:16:15 +0000

In reply to It is exciting. I am just

Meanwhile I find it intriguing that one can get Trump to flip on a dime when you combine polls with support from celebs that have something he would never admit they have: better ratings than him.

Not that it matters that much, because it's just words and he'll always flip with those again, not even understanding the actual policy that's needed to gain the adoration he craves.

But I had pretty much convinced myself that he only cared about keeping the base that he already knows how to manipulate, and damn everyone else. Here there is an inkling that he still dreams of having a bigger fan base. A really smart Machiavelli could manipulate that in certain situations. I think Schumer's tried,got near, but failed.

It is exciting. I am just

artappraiser — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 19:09:56 +0000

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It is exciting. I am just hoping the kids can keep it on the gun topic and keep things from going astray into other issues as doing the latter will make it easy to taint it as just another plot by Hollywood liberals. From what I've seen, so far I have some confidence that they can do that, some real smart cookies leading that movement, those kids seem to have a very savvy intuition for their age about all the culture wars issues involved. Maybe their boomer parents deserve praise for that.

Spielberg pitched in $500,000

AmericanDreamer — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 18:55:02 +0000

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Spielberg pitched in $500,000 as well...

Res ipsa loquitor:

artappraiser — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 06:00:23 +0000

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Res ipsa loquitor:

97% support expanding background checks. Amazing. https://t.co/8aCG958nyA
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) February 20, 2018

Celebs donating to the march on gun control: Oprah Winfrey has announced she is donating $500,000 to March For Our Lives, matching a gift made earlier Tuesday by George and Amal Clooney- via @CNN
— Elizabeth Landers (@ElizLanders) February 20, 2018

Whether we are Republican or Democrat, we must now focus on strengthening Background Checks!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 21, 2018

Clint Eastwood's next movie

NCD — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 04:03:59 +0000

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Clint Eastwood's next movie is reportedly titled "American Massacre, 1517 Shot at Springland High".

No foreigners or terrorists in it. No foreign countries. Americans killing Americans.

Americans should identify with the characters and story as it takes place in the heartland, not Iraq or France.

Assault weapons, which so many Americans cherish, are given top billing as inalienable possessions, bestowed on us in perpetuity by the Founding Fathers. Thru someone in the film business, (Spoiler notice!!) the film concludes with courageous, principled Republican lawmakers refusing to allow a debate or vote on a revival of a national assault weapons ban.