Posted on 02/10/2019 8:03:49 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The latest strategy of gun control activists is to force gun manufacturers “to consider their social impact” by buying stock in those companies and mobilizing shareholders to demand they study the concept.
The group called Adrian Dominican Sisters, led by a nun named Sister Judy Byron, is part of the Northwest Coalition for Responsible Investments, an anti-Second Amendment activist group. Their latest target was American Outdoor Brands Corporation (AOBC), which owns Smith & Wesson. The company was forced to do a study, which was released late Friday, but the results likely won’t make the nuns happy.
In their report, AOBC defended itself against critics of the Second Amendment, writing, “Specific terms sometimes are used to craft a narrative in support of those agendas. For example, phrases such as ‘gun violence’ are used to create a perception that the presence of a gun, in itself, somehow creates the conditions for violence.”
Moreover, the report takes swipes at liberal groups trying to tarnish the company’s reputation and bottom line.
“The Company’s reputation as a strong defender of the Second Amendment is not worth risking for a vague goal of improving the Company’s reputation among non-customers or special interest groups with an anti-Second Amendment agenda,” the report reads.
AOBC is one of two firearm manufacturers the activists bought stock in for the expressed purpose of forcing a “dialogue with the companies about what they are doing to ensure the safety of children and communities whose lives may be at risk because of their products.”
One of the areas the activist nuns wanted addressed was the idea of “smart guns,” weapons that can only be fired by one user. AOBC called this “flawed technology” in the report, saying they would continue to monitor its development.
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And that’s the way you talk to these brain dead liberals.
Thank you, Smith & Wesson!
Windy,
Satisfied customer since 2007
When I was a boy my aunt was an Adrian Dominican Sister. That order was as conservative as they came back in those days. It appears to have rotted from within like the rest of the Catholic Church.
The fish rots from the head. That is what happens when you have corrupt clergy like Father Pfleger, Cardinal McCarrick and an apostate Pope. As near as I can tell, the Catholic Church stands for nothing now. Cardinal Dolan won’t even entertain excommunicating the Catholic democrats who voted for straight up baby killing. I hope the Church recovers at some point and gets back to being force for good.
Infiltrate and subvert: the leftist way.
Well stated! ...Can the Pope be “impeached” for violating the tenets of the faith?
There was a reason Catholicism was banned in the early colonies.
I guess you don't count Maryland as one of the original colonies? And don't forget Charles Carroll one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Don't think for a moment these wacky leftist nuns represent the Catholic Church.
Somewhere in the 70s nuns got radicalized. The penguins of my catholic school education gave way to habitless sensible shoe wearing harpies advocating ERA, Nuclear disarming, gun control/confiscation, sensible pro choice, white guilt for all the evils in the world basically anti Reagan and conservative
RCINC is the oldest most profitable multinational corporation on the planet
Could they possibly be talking about the American Outdoor Brands Corporation?
Sounds to me like the battle has already turned.
“Somewhere in the 70s nuns got radicalized. “
Liberation theology.
Yet Smith & Wesson still installs the Clinton Lock on their revolvers.
I guess S&W learned from their fiasco back when they were owned by the British. They are not making the same mistake.
As a cradle Catholic, I see the problem with Catholicism to be the progressives who have infiltrated the hierarchy of the church, from the Commie apostate in the Vatican to the pedophile parish priests and militant feminist nuns, who use their position to promote Marxist ideas instead of faith and moral teachings...
The pic of Cardinal Dolan yukking it up with Gov Cuomo post infanticide legislation offered as Exhibit A...House cleaning much needed...
As a kid, I remember the Catholic Church as an anti-Communist bulwark...But apparently that has changed...Maybe in the interests of, like feeding the crocodile, if/when the Communists finally take over they’ll be eaten last ...
You have hit the proverbial nail on the head.
You can ban the Catholic Church over your dead body.
“Yet Smith & Wesson still installs the Clinton Lock on their revolvers.”
I collect them from time to time and am not interested in anything after 1982.
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