Progress on Guns, and No, It’s Not New Legislation

March 23, 2018 By: El Jefe Category: Fun With Guns

The high school kids from Parkland Florida are having a profound effect on America; tomorrow, there will be over 800 March for Our Lives events worldwide, over 700 in the US alone.  El Jefe is going to the one in Houston.  To find a march near you, click here.

But that’s not all that’s happening.  The boycotts against business partners of the NRA are being effective. At least 18 companies have severed ties with the NRA.  Additionally, several large chains have established a minimum age of 21 to purchase guns.  But now even more steps are being taken by large business.  Yesterday, Citigroup announced that it will require all of its clients who deal in guns to raise its age limit to 21, do background checks on ALL gun sales, cease selling bump stocks and high capacity magazines. This policy not only applies to borrowers from Citi, but also all retailers who accept Citibank credit cards.  If clients refuse to comply, Citi will drop them.  This move have been considered more of a social statement than real, but I disagree.  If Citi has been moved enough to declare this policy, so have other banks, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers.  In 2012, the NRA started “anti-gun” shaming, telling its members to boycott companies it viewed as hostile to guns.  Well, now the worm has turned, and there are a lot more of us than the NRA membership.  Companies are focused on profitability.  Normal people are now threatening that profitability of companies which are irresponsibly supporting unlimited gun ownership.

The kids from Parkland are shaming Washington, shaming state governments, shaming the gun lobby, and shaming all of us adults for miserably failing at protecting our own.  It’s our fault, and it’s long past time for us to fix it.

Hey, DC Politicians – The Kids are Coming for You

February 18, 2018 By: El Jefe Category: Fun With Guns

Saturday, March 24, Washington DC.  This will be the scene of the March for Our Lives, and organization started by the high school kids who survived the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last Wednesday in Parkland Florida.  Inaction by craven politicians like John Cornyn, Ted Cruz, and many others have put our children’s lives at risk by allowing easy access to weapons of war by criminals and the mentally unstable.  If you doubt the intensity of this effort, I encourage you to watch this.