Yes, I believe S&W’s stock price has everything to do with the mobilization of the gun industry’s political wing (the NRA).

I wouldn’t be the bit surprised if nickel prices rose as a response too, since this is used for manufacturing ammunition.

Fear is a very lucrative industry. And we all know the Republicans love them a profit.

(although with guns being an obvious phallic symbol the view of gun as subsitute penis is likely much more prevailant).

aadila, isn’t that (S&W stock price) what all of this gun paranoia is really about?

Well, that and male insecurity syndrome with a large helping of racism.

All I did was point out the origins of democracy are based upon a union of the weak to protect against the tyranny of the strong. And that’s why in a democracy it makes sense to accept minority pride groups. How else would they be represented?

Unfortunately the basic message that maybe the right wing might not get much joy trying to horn in cultural pride groups after centuries of privilege seems to have been lost on the poor, poor plutocrats.

Higher taxes for gun manufacturers, anyone?

Sadly things do not end well for our happy couple after their date on gun appreciation day, when the gun nut finds someone new with a larger magazine and never calls back. Good thing for our two timing gun nut friend that guns are not able to kill people by themselves ;)

(btw, i’m thinking now of a funny rap song called “Take a Look at My Girlfriend” by Charlie Manhattan (i think that is the name of the artist, anyway it the first song on the Live from the Gutter Soundtrack) where the rapper talks about how his gun is his girlfriend which is an interesting twist from the normal view of the gun as substitute penis)

I’ve tried telling that to every ‘patriot’ I meet. Something tells me the French won’t leap to our aid as quickly as they did last time…

I also love reminding these dumb bunnies that Lexington and Concord, MA are two of the most liberal towns in the country.

Folks, I have just uncovered the identity of an(al)observer. It’s Gollum.

http://www.fstdt.com/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=92137

The psychologist who sheltered and took care of several children who escaped the Newtown massacre has been accused of being a “crisis actor” by *massacre deniers*. His address and photos of his home have been circulated on the internet and he has received death threats through every channel conceivable, based on the accusation that he and the children, living and dead, are players in a vast (you name it) conspiracy *to take their guns away*. To borrow an expression from a Sicilian acquaintance of mine: Infamitá!”

Massacre deniers…I saw their nonsense the other day on Snopes.com, along with the debunking of their idiocies, sloppy research, and general paranoia.

There is something wrong in this country when a person who commits an act that is a pure, absolute good, in the face of unimaginable horror, becomes the object of death threats.

The people that are doing so are proof that we have a mental health crisis in this country and that they MUST be kept away from assault rifles with multi-clip magazines.

By the way, to all the “patriots” who dream of guerrilla warfare against a tyrannical government and re-creating Lexington and Concord, just remember that the guerrilla wars that successfully drove their opponents to defeat had massive support from outside powers: the Yugoslavians, the Chinese, the Viet Cong, and (dare I say it), the Taliban. Even the Americans of the Revolution needed outside help, from France and Spain, and they ultimately won their biggest victories in standard pre-Napoleonic battle lines, at Monmouth, Cowpens, and Yorktown.

And for those who say that if the Jews of Europe could have stopped the Holocaust if they had been armed…the French, with more rifles, more planes, more tanks (and better tanks), and the Maginot Line, fell to the Germans in six weeks. British, Australian, and New Zealand troops held out on Crete longer than Warsaw.

Maybe some of these gun nuts can provide the answer of how one shows appreciation to a gun.

If it’s just about gun rights, maybe you can explain why folks like you(RRoberts) don’t seem to be concerned about the company you keep, and how they reflect on the gun rights movement as a whole.

You may have stumbled onto this forum, but, judging by your post, it’s obvious you didn’t read much of it.

It’s obvious too the kind of stereotype you embrace of “leftists” that you imagine write the comments here, a kind of grotesque, lazy, whiny neo-hippie caricature that has, moronically, a bizarre Utopian dream where the government should “dominate” everyone and ban all guns and freedom and differences, and that everyone should love each other and hold hands and sing kumabayah all day long. In other words, a stereotype that bears no resemblance to anyone in the real world. It’s obvious too that you like to use scare quotes for no apparent reason.

No it’s not, the wonderful white people I know are just fine and I believe that the only ones who are in trouble are the hate mongers, because they are running out of relatives to breed with. That’s too bad.

These hateful supremacists bring a bad name to the wonderful and intelligent white people of America who don’t share in their idiot views or philosophies.

If you want to communicate, learn how to write clearly. I read your post three times and still can’t make out what you’re trying to say.

http://www.fstdt.com/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=92137

The psychologist who sheltered and took care of several children who escaped the Newtown massacre has been accused of being a “crisis actor” by *massacre deniers*. His address and photos of his home have been circulated on the internet and he has received death threats through every channel conceivable, based on the accusation that he and the children, living and dead, are players in a vast (you name it) conspiracy *to take their guns away*. To borrow an expression from a Sicilian acquaintance of mine: Infamitá!