Social Justice Warriors Still Pushing Ruger On Smart Guns
BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 6 months ago
Ruger CEO Christopher Killoy responded during the meeting that rolling out a line of these weapons would be a financial loser.
“While people think there is often a great market for ‘smart guns,’ or user-authorized technology, we are not seeing it,” he said.
The company’s decision to not pursue smart guns frustrated Colleen Scanlon, an activist investor with Catholic Health Initiatives, which is based in Colorado, where a school shooting on Tuesday killed one student and injured others.
“We find management’s decision dangerously short sighted. It ignores a significant business opportunity, as well as one of the most promising prospects for reducing gun violence,” Scanlon told shareholders.
Last year, Scanlon and other faith-based activist investors successfully persuaded Ruger shareholders to adopt a resolution requiring the company to produce a report investigating the viability of smart guns and how the company assesses risks related to gun violence.
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Ruger did appear receptive, however, to another demand of activists: that the company meaningfully engage in conversations with faith-based shareholders, who have criticized Ruger’s refusal to meet.
Oh nice. So now Ruger has agreed to waste time and resources meeting with the same sort of “faith-based” groups (read here, “Jesus was a Bohemian, pacifist, beatnik, flower child hippie, so we should be too”) that are pushing them to meet with these groups. They’re all in it together.
Once again. To all gun manufacturers, make sure a majority of your stock is owned by employees. Ruger did not work behind the scenes to buy out these shares over the last year and leverage their power (e.g., splitting the stock and buying half of it?), and that may have been a mistake.
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On May 9, 2019 at 5:23 am, Matt said:
The gun is a tool of last resort. As such, I don’t want some stupid technology that is nothing but another point of failure getting in the way. In that moment, I need that gun to do it’s job, the job it was designed to do, reliably, accurately and without fail. Putting a computer between me and that mission is absolutely contrary to the required objective.
On May 9, 2019 at 7:27 am, Jack said:
SJW are willing to spend there money to get on the inside to cause trouble, as is evident with CHI and perhaps others.
We make meme’s.
Nuff said.
As for Ruger and there Stock, they’ll regret not getting control of it and there company. And the little guy(dirty hand employees) will be the ones to pay.
Ain’t it grand!
On May 9, 2019 at 7:57 am, Fred said:
“Jesus was a Bohemian, pacifist, beatnik, flower child hippie, so we should be too”
Nah, in this case, being Catholic, they are communists. The hippy Jesus is more of an evangelical hearsay. The Catholics support governments of men to the point that they create them for the purposes of power, money, and control; aka communism.
Social Christianity creates commies. It’s good to feed a man, once. It’s better to teach him to feed himself. It’s best to bring him into the presence of Holy God that he might be saved where the Holy Spirit can make him a new creature thereby eliminating the need of communistic free stuff. We are supposed to be about the LORD’s work, seeking the lost to be saved.
Do you lock your doors at night because you hate the people outside or because you love the people inside? Believers on the LORD don’t shoot people without the love of that which they defend. And believers don’t shoot themselves. Causing harm not in defense is the domain of the devil. By going after an object, instead of the objectives of Holy God they are serving the wrong master.
There are no unbelievers in heaven. If you want heaven on earth, seek souls to be saved. Trying to create heaven on earth by forcing people to do things according to a preferred custom, in this case a gun free utopia, is pretty much why Jesus told the Jewish leaders that they will not see the Kingdom of God.