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Title: American nuns win victory holding Smith & Wesson accountable
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URL Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/american ... victory-holding-001755881.html
Published: Sep 25, 2018
Author: Lois Beckett ,The Guardian
Post Date: 2018-09-25 22:12:44 by Dakmar
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American Outdoor Brands, formerly Smith & Wesson, approved a resolution to require the company to report on gun safety Smith & Wesson revolvers are on display at the 144th National Rifle Association (NRA) meeting and exhibits in Nashville, Tennessee on April 2015. Smith & Wesson revolvers are on display at the 144th National Rifle Association (NRA) meeting and exhibits in Nashville, Tennessee on April 2015. Photograph: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images A group of American nuns has won a second victory in their battle to force gun manufacturers to do more to prevent gun violence, convincing shareholders of American Outdoor Brands – formerly known as Smith & Wesson – to require the company to report on what it’s doing to advance gun safety. Shareholders of the gun company formerly known as Smith & Wesson voted on Tuesday to approve a shareholder resolution introduced by a coalition of nuns that will require the company to report on what it’s doing to monitor how its guns are used in violence, as well as what it’s doing to make its products safer. Shareholders of Sturm Ruger, another major gun manufacturer, approved a similar resolution by an overwhelming 69% majority in May, just three months after the Parkland, Florida, school shooting that left 17 people dead. On Monday, Sister Judy Byron, who introduced the resolution during Tuesday’s virtual shareholder meeting, said she was not sure if the political will to hold gun companies accountable had dissipated in the seven months since the Parkland shooting. The approval of the resolution suggests that concern over gun violence – and shareholders’ worries about what long-term impact America’s escalating mass shooting problem might have on gun companies – is holding strong. Both American Outdoor Brands and Sturm Ruger have bristled at the shareholder activism from religious groups, even though the resolution American Outdoor Brands shareholders approved simply requested that the companies report to shareholders about what the company is doing to advance “gun safety measures and the mitigation of harm associated with gun products”, as well as what reputational and financial risks the company faces as a result of gun violence. Responding to the voting results at Tuesday’s shareholder meeting, American Outdoor Brands CEO James Debney said the resolution was “politically motivated” and that he was “disappointed” that shareholders were focusing on the firearms company, rather than focusing their activism on laws, CNBC reported. The resolution noted that the Parkland shooter, like several perpetrators of mass shootings before him, had used a Smith & Wesson AR-15-style rifle. “The proposal requires Ruger to prepare a report. That’s it. A report,” Sturm Ruger’s CEO Chris Killoy said in May, according to National Public Radio. “What the proposal does not, and cannot, do is to force us to change our business.” In March, BlackRock, a major investor in both Smith & Wesson and Sturm Ruger, pressed both companies to answer a similar set of questions to the ones religious organizations had posed, including how they were investing in gun safety, and how America’s gun violence crisis might affect their business. A spokesman for BlackRock, which manages more than $6tn in assets, said he could not immediately comment on how the company had voted on Tuesday’s resolution. The Smith & Wesson resolution was backed by 11 religious organizations, led by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, who are represented by Byron, who is also the director of the Northwest Coalition for Responsible Investment. The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, which announced that the measure backed by the religious groups had passed, did not have immediate information on what percentage of shareholders voted to approve it. A spokeswoman for American Outdoor Brands did not respond to a request for comment. In advance of the vote, Byron told the Guardian that the religious activists were not trying to stop the production of guns, but simply trying to use shareholder power to press companies to do more to make guns safer. “We are not asking that they stop manufacturing guns. We realize that we are going to have guns in our society,” Byron said. Gun companies, she said, should be willing “to monitor their distribution chains” to see how guns get into the wrong hands, and “we’d like them to be involved in lobbying more for universal background checks and federal funding for gun safety research, and to also let us know what they’re researching in terms of safer weapons. “We need everyone’s involvement: legislators, citizens, police, but we also also need the gun manufacturers to be involved in ending gun violence,” she added. Poster Comment: “We are not asking that they stop manufacturing guns. We realize that we are going to have guns in our society,” Byron said. Gun companies, she said, should be willing “to monitor their distribution chains” to see how guns get into the wrong hands F'ing A! GM needs to spend money finding out how it's products end up being used in drive-by shootings, while we're at it.
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#1. To: All (#0)
If Voter ID is so racist, why the demand for universal background checks by the left?
“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs
Where is Joseph in this group? Dammit nuns, get with the non-sexist program here. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Not trying to offend anyone reading this, or maybe mildly at best, but growing up in a largely blue collar secular area the Catholics I saw on TV were usually either Old World stereotypes, meaning either Irish or Italian, superstitious as any woggy gypo bastard, but more assimilated; or Hyper educated sensitive detective/author type. Didn't see the pensive, drunk priests too much on prime time tv, prolly got focused grouped out of final cuts. “I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs
Stupid bitches - guns go 'BOOM' when you pull the trigger, they're lying through their teeth when they proclaim their concern for "safety". “With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group." I've been tripping up the statist gun grabbing brats on the Yahoo thread. Who the fuck thinks it's wise to disarm citizens but put them in jail if they refuse to pay for nuclear bombers? They can't answer, and imply I live in mobile housing. Seriously, that's all they have. Seems kind of....racist, actually. A negative stereotype about persons of rural heritage... It sounds like discrimination, do you think the Anti-Discrimination League will represent me as I battle against everything they stand for? Probably not. It's still fun to get close an push their buttons, and I'll be honest with you, they aren't hanging out here. I'm actually kind of impressed with Yahoo, I don't think they have ever censored one of my posts.
“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs
Wow, they did delete some of my best posts on that thread. Not that they were earth shattering, but they weren't offensive either. I'm not going to kiss their ass and praise them for leaving up half my opinion.
“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs
They need to ask the bad guys how they get hold of guns. After all, they are the perps and have all the answers. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Interesting. Will you provide us a link to this board? Thanks, 4 “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Point out that the Trad English are imprisoned when they resist being murdered by beating off their would-be-killers with a stick - that should wake up a few folks.
“With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group." "Walk softly and carry a big stick." - Teddy Roosevelt ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Not only a lie,a damned lie. Nuns don't make the decision to go take a dump on their own. They are merely slaves of the communist Catholic Church. They aren't the real problem,though. The real problem is the court that agreed to give them standing and listen to their whining. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
Simple.Voter ID keeps blacks from getting paid to vote using multiple false ID's. That is CLEARLY racist. Universal Backgrou8nd Checks will only be applied to white people because most black people either steal their guns or buy stolen guns,and restricting the rights of white people is only reasonable,right? After all,white people are the only ones trying to buy guns legally. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
Big sticks with spikes in them work best,but don't be caught with one. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
#2. To: Dakmar (#0)
Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary
#3. To: Lod (#2)
Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary
#4. To: Dakmar (#0)
to require the company to report on what it’s doing to advance gun safety.
-Alex Kurtagic 
#5. To: X-15 (#4)
#6. To: X-15 (#4)
#7. To: Dakmar (#0)
Gun companies, she said, should be willing “to monitor their distribution chains” to see how guns get into the wrong hands
#8. To: Dakmar (#5)
I'm actually kind of impressed with Yahoo, I don't think they have ever censored one of my posts.
#9. To: Dakmar (#5)
-Alex Kurtagic
#10. To: X-15 (#9)
beating off their would-be-killers with a stick
#11. To: Dakmar (#0)
Shareholders of the gun company formerly known as Smith & Wesson voted on Tuesday to approve a shareholder resolution introduced by a coalition of nuns that will require the company to report on what it’s doing to monitor how its guns are used in violence, as well as what it’s doing to make its products safer.
#12. To: Dakmar (#1)
If Voter ID is so racist, why the demand for universal background checks by the left?
#13. To: BTP Holdings (#10)
"Walk softly and carry a big stick." - Teddy Roosevelt ;)
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