When Republican politicians decry Obama's moves as a dire threat to Second Amendment rights ("Obama wants your guns" declares a For the NRA, it's about members and money. If you took gun advocates at their word, you might think they're enormously displeased when President Obama discusses measures like the expansion (or if you like, clarification) of the background check system that he announced on Tuesday. The more guns that are out there being carried the less likely that anyone will ever have to use one because, as I said, evil people are not dumb.
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To be fair, the National Rifle Association (NRA) has been scaring gun owners about the imminent threat to their arsenals ever since President Obama took office. Gun sales are booming, and 2015 was the best year yet. You shouldn't just have What do you call the frightened, paranoid, insecure guy having a midlife crisis who prepares for the inevitable breakdown of society and shakes his fist at the president? The NRA’s tactics have contributed to industry growth.And that growth has been impressive. I appeared eight times in the 2016 documentary: "We The People: The Market Basket Effect." That was the year NRA lobbyists helped get a federal law passed that limits liability claims against gun makers. And as long as gun owners are kept agitated, angry, and afraid, they both win.Here's how it works. (http://www.babson.edu/Academics/faculty/profiles/Pages/Cohan-Peter.aspx)Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Nor would everyone who could use them be skilled enough to figure out in the Aurora case that Holmes was the sole gunman and he could be easily killed by one of the moviegoers – especially given that he had on all that armor.Ultimately, the NRA’s power comes from the way it spends money to reward politicians, who turn its self-interest into the law of the land and use its money and power to defeat politicians who oppose its will. Instead, the gun lobby continues to peddle the discredited narrative that it is not its … It could lead to everyone shooting at everyone else.Two points: I am not aware of objective proof that letting everyone carry guns and use them in public would lead to less murdering; second, it seems to me that even if everyone could legally carry and use guns in public, not everyone would. But no one seems to notice that the NRA is the boy who cried "wolf" again and again. When few are in this category they have little to do.”But consider what would happen if everyone in a dark movie theater with 300 people had a gun and could use it when Holmes threw the tear gas in. Nope, he's really coming to take your guns. My 14th book -- published in February 2019 -- is "Scaling Your Startup: Mastering the Four Stages from Idea to $10 Billion." The threat always turns out to be imaginary; more background checks wouldn't stop anyone legally authorized to buy a gun from doing so, let alone take away guns people already own. President Obama wants more background checks? For the gun manufacturers, it's about sales and protection from legal liability. That's because the NRA and the gun manufacturers are in a symbiotic relationship, where they both benefit whenever guns become a political issue. There's the gun control camp, the NRA.
There's an election coming up? According to IRS fillings, from 2004 to 2010, the NRA’s revenue from fundraising -- including gifts from gun makers who benefit from its political activism -- grew twice as fast as its income from members’ dues.Over 50 firearms-related companies have given at least $14.8 million to NRA according to its list for a donor program that began in 2005. We can use FBI background checks as a proxy for sales (even though many sales don't require a background check), and last year, the agency What's particularly remarkable about this increase in gun sales is that it comes at a time when gun ownership is on a long, steady decline. There's a mass shooting, then President Obama suggests we really need to do something about gun violence. According to data from theThe numbers tell the story of a transformation in gun culture, from many more people owning a gun or two (often a rifle or a shotgun) to a smaller number of owners each buying many more guns, mostly handguns. Do we want peace of mind that our children and families will be safe when they are in these so-called soft targets?Or do we want to make sure that a handful of gun industry executives and shareholders continue to enjoy market-beating profits? First, the organization, particularly its chief Wayne LaPierre, regularly Second, the NRA cries that no matter what's going on in the political world, it portends an imminent massive gun confiscation. The answer: the NRA Industrial Complex.Ruger and Glock guns are a common element in a string of recent massacres.In the Aurora, Colo. massacre that killed 12 and injured 59, alleged shooter James Holmes’ arsenal included two Glock pistols; in January 2011 Jared Lee Loughner shot Gabrielle Giffords in Each time we have one of these mass murders, the shooters get enormous publicity. Former NRA President Sandy Froman wrote that it “saved the American gun industry from bankruptcy,” according to But the key to gun industry growth in the last few years is the NRA’s effort to scare gun owners and stop President Obama from being re-elected. This is an odd thing. I began following stocks in 1981 when I was in grad school at MIT and first analyzed tech stocks as a guest on CNBC in 1998. … Time for the gun industry and NRA to accept blame for America’s bloodshed Gun manufacturers and dealers could play a huge role in making our nation safer. After every mass shooting, a debate unfolds. to its members, and all gun owners.
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