Good. Let's stop playing along with this bull**** that an assault rifle is a sporting good.

This one has teeth too



https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/968243371885121537

Holy ****, Walmart too?! This is incredible. Regardless of legislation, this is massive, massive change that we are seeing. Pure awesomeness.

Meanwhile, FedEx is being exposed as deplorable, and will suffer consequences for it, if they don't turn their position around.

That article about Walmart stopping is from 2015.

Yes, the point was that they didn't boycott Wal Mart then so why would they boycott now if it means so much? Or something along those lines.

Also, both sides



https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/968870131039375360

Even more props to Walmart then.

Florida has a gun show every 5 minutes. No background checks cause FREEDOM .

I am hoping this keeps up to a point where us layfolk have to get together and do something - I don't know what but something - for the kids at Marjory Stoneman Douglas as a thank you. I'd be up for travel, donating, whatever it takes to show our appreciation.

The NRA has been a paper tiger this entire time.

X posted from the gun thread:

Equipment co-op to stop selling Vista Outdoor Products


This one is big, the company will stop selling any product that is made by a company which also makes guns and ammunition. Vista Outdoor sells a lot of cycling, camping, climbing, hiking products as well as sunglasses, water bottles, etc.

This will only push people to small gun shops and should be a boom to their sales.

WTF are you talking about? Small gun shops will sell bikes and camping equipment now and steal their sales?

Kroger will no longer sell guns to people under 21. Also, Kroger sells guns? WTF?

Vista owns Camelbak and Bushnell, those are top tier brands. If US outdoor stores do the same it would be a big deal.

lmao rara thinks shops that currently sell guns ceasing to do so is good news...FOR GUNS

Plus I think he was going for "boon" to their sales?

Fred Meyer does in 43 stores. They're owned by Kroger.

I've heard it both ways.

I think rara probably thought there was a company that sells guns, that will now stop selling guns. He then posted that this decision will just push some people to go elsewhere and purchase guns from small gun shops and increase small gun shops' sales. That might be true in that case, but would be a stupid point to make, since overall gun sales and proliferation would likely go down. The only point to that post would be if you are a small gun shop owner or investor in such.

What makes his post truly stupid though, is that none of the above is true. Rara either didn't read the link or didn't understand it. The situation is that an outdoor company (which does not sell guns at all) will no longer sell any outdoor products made by Vista, since Vista also sells guns. It would be like if 7-11 stopped selling a particular brand of beef jerky, because that beef jerky company also made and sold guns elsewhere.

So the entire premise behind rara's post is false, although I doubt he understands that.

Trump having a gun meeting without the Democratic Senator and representative of the people of Parkland was such a partisan move. Rubio, the Republican representative was invited.

Could it be because his buddy, the Republican governor will be running against the Democratic Senator in 2018? Probably unrelated.

NYT Opinion: Go Ahead, Millennials, Destroy Us

best line ever

**** yeah, that is some hot fire. Love it. Applies doubly or triply so or more to the boomers.

Thanks for sharing. Loved this part as well:

"The students of Parkland are like veterans coming home from the bloody front of the N.R.A.’s de facto war on children. They’ve seen their friends, teachers and coaches gunned down in the halls. To them, powerful Washington lobbyists and United States senators suddenly look like what they are: cheesy TV spokesmodels for murder weapons. It has been inspiring and thrilling to watch furious, cleareyed teenagers shame and vilify gutless politicians and soul-dead lobbyists for their complicity in the murders of their friends. Last week Wayne LaPierre was reduced to gibbering like Gen. Jack D. Ripper in “Dr. Strangelove” about a “socialist” takeover and “hardening” our schools. You could see the whites all around his irises. That look is fear."

Agree that the article is fire and I loved it, but I guess the missing part for me is not yet knowing how these stories end. If children grow up, remember everything, and forgive nothing - we watched boomers before us destroy the economy and consolidate wealth into the hands of a few so they could live comfortably, everyone else be damned, but we're not yet old enough to do something about it - boomers still run ****, we might be angry about it but lots of us are still under the minimum age (let alone the practical age) to be President, maybe even Senator.

What will we do (collectively) when we take over? Will we use that anger for something good, or just perpetuate the system? What will the Parkland kids do? How will they change between now and when it's time for them to take the reins?

While people ~10 years older than me probably don't have quite the same generational view that I do, it's discouraging to look at a list of the younger members of the Senate and see ****heads like Tom Cotton (39) or Ben Sasse (44), people with ~no ideological difference (Sasse claims to but he's a weak-spined dip**** like the rest of them) from the people 30 years their senior. But then again, they're conservative. The D side has Chris Murphy (43) and Brian Schatz (44), don't know much about either of them, but also Cory Booker (47, no difference between him and Joe Biden).

C'mon man, Gen X-ers gonna be better than boomers, and Millenials gonna be better than Gen X-ers someday. [Actually, **** someday. Parkland kids killing it right now.]

The problem is that boomers won't give up power. Schumer and Pelosi, c'mon.

ETA: I wasn't sure if Obama was a boomer or not. Looked it up, and he's at the tail end. I say make him honorary Gen X bc reasons.

Society is still ****, but it's gotten better over time. The most noticeable reversal has simply been the past two years, due to the last gasp of the boomers and racists, Russia, Comey, etc etc etc. I'm optimistic that Trump gets impeached with a tiny chance of conviction, and assuming no conviction, bounced in 2020, and we never look back.