There’s push-back too, like Georgia threatening to deny Delta Airlines a major tax break due to its anti-NRA stance. Indiana’s reaction to Parkland was to institute free, life-time licenses for handguns.
But then there’s Judith! A staunch gun-owner and former school principal with strong ideas about the difference in classes of firearms who's calling for a boycott of NRA because of their failure to distinguish. That article also discusses Drain the NRA, a public spreadsheet of corporations linked to the NRA, and promising indications that this movement might actually have an impact.
JUDITH PEARSON:
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We who are like children shrink from pain but love its causes. - Shantideva
A step in the right direction, as a direct result of Parkland:
"...immediately ending sales of all assault-style rifles in its stores.
The retailer also said that it would no longer sell high-capacity magazines and that it would not sell any gun to anyone under 21 years of age, regardless of local laws...."
“When we saw what happened in Parkland, we were so disturbed and upset,” Mr. Stack said in an interview Tuesday evening. “We love these kids and their rallying cry, ‘enough is enough.’ It got to us.”
He added, “We’re going to take a stand and step up and tell people our view and, hopefully, bring people along into the conversation.”
And he also said today on CNN one is his motivating factors was the fact that Cruz bought a shotgun from them, even though it was not used in the shooting. The mere fact that he was one of their customers motivated him to cease selling to those under 21 and all assault/tactical rifles.
[A]nything at all that is well spoken is the word of the Buddha.
-- Ārya-adhyāśaya-sañcodana-nāma-mahāyāna-sūtra
The different sūtras in accord with the emptiness
taught by the Sugata are definitive in meaning;
One can understand that all of those Dharmas in
which a sentient being, individual, or person are taught are provisional in meaning.
It's amazing to see the power of our children have such an effect on this matter....
The world is going through amazing changes from feminism to mental illness , to this gun culture gone so wrong.
Back in the day pre apartheid in south africa, we saw how music and artists created a demand for change...
At the time when i saw it starting to happen where governments put sanctions on south african goods , i had this thought of children listening to the songs being inspired to put pressure on their political parents in power to do something...it was my take on it at the time ...for i could not understand why it was starting to actually work and who exactly was listening to the likes of Peter Gabriel and simple minds etc...
remember the song .
Locally (in the US, midwest no less!), a gun shop gave up the selling of assault rifles, will now refuse the sale of any weapons to people under the age of 21.
Some people are listening, as hard as that may be to believe.
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Standing with a group of families who had traveled to the State Capitol from Parkland, an emotional Mr. Scott [who had an A-plus rating from the National Rifle Association] called the classmates of the slain students and their parents his inspiration, and praised them for helping persuade lawmakers to pass legislation, even if neither they nor he agreed with all of its provisions.
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That such a gun-friendly state adopted any firearm restrictions represents a sea change, even more so as the restrictions were drafted and approved in a matter of three weeks, after a bipartisan vote and the signature of a Republican governor likely to be on the ballot later this year as a Senate candidate.
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We who are like children shrink from pain but love its causes. - Shantideva
"Killer Mike Defends Gun Ownership in New NRA Video
He says he discouraged his children from participating in gun protest walkouts"
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"My religion is not deceiving myself." Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss." The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
