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Posted on 06/06/2022 8:11:17 AM PDT by null and void
By Chris O'Neil June 3, 2022
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Nevada just announced a major divestment from firearms manufacturers.
The divestment marks the end of an $89 million investment portfolio managed by the treasurer’s office. Zachary Conine, Nevada’s Treasurer announced that this is his response to the hellish attacks in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York.
“Today, I directed our team to divest the State of Nevada from any investment in a business that profits from the sale or manufacture of assault-style weapons. No one policy or law will fix this crisis, but we all must do something.”
Nevada Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action come out in support. Both organizations are long-time supporters of gun control. Liz Becker, a volunteer with Nevada’s Moms Demand Action had this to say.
“There’s no reason why our taxpayer dollars should end up in the pockets of assault weapon manufacturers, and we’re grateful that Nevada will no longer be investing in these companies that profit off of flooding our streets with deadly, high-powered rifles. As gun violence continues to devastate communities in Nevada and across the country, this is a bold step in promoting gun safety.”
The biggest problem with all of this is that none of it will not save any of these children. Not one. Buffalo Shooter Peyton Gendron’s manifesto told us why he chose New York. He knew that tighter gun laws would make his targets softer. If Democrats tighten them further, they only clear an even easier path for the next nauseating nightmare.
Let’s not forget that in Uvalde, Texas, when a psychopathic maniac killed 21 innocent fourth-graders, police showed up on the scene but only made the problem worse. Cowardly officers waited outside while the shooter had a field day. They even handcuffed and pepper-sprayed parents who tried to enter the school to get their children out or confront the menacing scoundrel.
Imagine how many children could have been saved if those teachers were armed. That’s the direction we need to be moving. Not divesting from firearm manufacturers, but arming the good guys. If every good man and woman is armed, an evil man with a gun goes from terrifying, to terrified. And evil lives in fear, the good live in peace.
A few years back I'd see open carry often.
To add your name to the growing Nevada ping list, FReepmail me...
From a state built on gambling.
What morons these people are.
When countries/states attempt to influence who gets to do business and who doesn’t on a political whim you get something called fascism.
Virtue signaling from a state that makes money off gambling, drugs, and whores. What hypocrisy.
I fully expect my governor to reach out to these companies and invite them to move here....he made the same type of offer to LEOs when the defund the police stupidity started, and even offered a $5k bonus to move here.
Keep running companies out of the lib states....we’ll take ‘em.
Nevada is where whores and gambling houses legally make tons of money.
Nevada is the LEAST qualified state to try and take the high moral ground.
The gun manufacturers need to triple(or more) the cost of guns to state related agencies in Nevada. Including the state police.
gambling, drugs, and prostitutes..........yeah but those are all victimless pass times. /s/
SMH
Gun manufacturers and shops should discontinue selling to all government agencies in the state, including law enforcement. They restrict you, you restrict them.
I’ll bet al. The state hypocritical officials and their security Wil, keep their own personal ar-15’s though.
Zachary Conine Is a rat opportunist.
Mining is the state's #1 revenue source.
Although I suppose digging a hole in the ground in the attempt to find valuable minerals is in and of itself a form of gambling...
Minor point of order, prostitution isn’t legal in every county, not Clark County (Las Vegas), not Washoe County (Reno), not the former Ormsby County, now the “Consolidated Municipality of Carson City”. (The politicians in the state capital apparently didn’t like the competition...)
Zachary Conine Is a rat opportunist.
Why stop there. They want gun bans. Give um gun bans.
No guns to any state office.
Point taken......still “more legal” than other states anyway.
Not to mention marijuana sales to a certain extent.
The article raises important questions like how the heck states get to ‘invest’ in the private sector in the first place, making them powerful market forces able to shape or destroy entire sectors of the economy on a whim. Only when these questions are addressed can any improvement on the situation take place.
Firearms manufactures are the next “straw man” to blame, the real bad guy is the one misusing the product.
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