Giffords’ Corporate ‘Outreach’ Equivalent of BLM Mobs Forcing Diners to Raise Fists

Giffords is appropriating “Silence is Violence” and repurposing it to pressure corporations into siding with citizen disarmament. (Giffords/Facebook)

U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “CEOs: It’s time to take a stand on gun safety. It will help your business,” Giffords executive director Peter Ambler advises in a Thursday Fast Company opinion piece. “Gun violence hasn’t stopped during the pandemic—it’s gotten worse. And gun safety organization Giffords wants the business community to commit to fighting the problem.”

Ambler’s qualifications for counseling for-profit corporations are unclear. Per his LinkedIn profile, after graduating from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service where he specialized in Culture and Politics, African Studies, he was thereafter an “organizer” and congressional aide for Democrats before being inexplicably placed at the helm of the Giffords nonprofit. He did have a curious 10-month stint as a U.S. Department of Energy “Special Advisor,” but with his background, it might be fair to assume he has as much experience in that field as, say, Hunter Biden.

That doesn’t matter, though, because Ambler’s not really advising. He’s warning them, and that’s something someone who cut his teeth in coercive government is more than qualified to do. If giving in to his demands will “help your business,” the equal and opposite reaction is not doing so will hurt it. Guess who will make sure of that.

Finding anti-gun companies in today’s “woke” corporate culture isn’t hard at all. There are plenty of capitalist rope-sellers, like Levi, or Ben and Jerry’s, or Dick’s Sporting Goods, or any number of banks, tech firms, and social media giants that are more than eager to ooze their “virtue” and demand their customers be disarmed by law. And anyone who hasn’t detected the pulling of insurrectionist strings by billionaires hasn’t been paying attention.

But since the goal of a monopoly of violence is a totalitarian one, no one can be left alone.  As one of the new Big Lies parroted by fanatical manipulated useful idiots maintains:

“Silence is violence.”

That means if you’re not out there screaming slogans and otherwise overtly proving your loyalty to “the revolution,” you are guilty of aggression. And we all know that “justifies” a “defensive” physical response. About the only time it doesn’t is when it’s a real act of self-defense, in which case Ambler and fellow gun-grabbers call them “vigilantes” and incite a virtual (for now) mob with a charge of racist motives and a presumption of guilt:

“Rittenhouse is a white nationalist who illegally obtained an AR-15, traveled to Kenosha seeking armed confrontation with protesters, & stands charged with 1st degree murder. Trump has long promoted violence & opposed safer gun laws — but now he’s actively defending a murderer.”

“That’s why, as the gun violence epidemic in America worsens, Giffords will be making it a priority to invite more companies to join us in this fight,” Ambler says.

And if a company, which simply wants to go about its business and provide competitive products and services in the marketplace, declines Ambler’s “invitation”?  Anybody else getting a “Nice business you have here. Shame if something happened to it” extortionist vibe?

Because “Silence is violence,” remember? And we see the type of negative messaging the mob inciters are willing to put out there to sway public opinion against those they target.

This is the moral equivalent of (significantly white!) Black Lives Matter mobs trespassing at restaurants to harass diners who just came to enjoy a well-earned meal, and screaming, coercing and intimidating them into raising their fists in solidarity – or else.

“We’re committed to highlighting the power of stepping up and speaking out, to collaborating with companies to develop a playbook on gun safety advocacy that works, and to helping companies find the courage it takes to fight gun violence in America with everything they’ve got,” Ambler concludes.

Interestingly he concedes corporate quislings are collaborators.  And have no doubt that businesses that ignore him, or vocally resist, will become cancel culture candidates, especially if the Democrats claim a “mail-in” victory in November.

At that point, when and if Giffords endorsee Joe Biden’s citizen disarmament agenda is enacted, we’ll see who has the courage to fight with everything they’ve got. Because some of us will settle for nothing less than uncoerced justice and peace and are prepared to back that up against those who would force us to bow to their “versions” of it.


About David Codrea:David Codrea

David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.

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Green Mtn. Boy

Demanding Commie Mommy brownshirts smacking down the people and treating to break things if they don’t get their way, they would be more successful pounding sand.

Last edited 3 years ago by Green Mtn. Boy
Elisa Delaurenti

Nothing would please me more than if one or twenty of these demanding shrew commy mommy’s interrupted my bacon cheeseburger. Unfortunately, they don’t pull that garbage here in Montana…. YET.

nrringlee

Premises are all false. If violent crime is up then where is it rising and why? Do firearms choose these stressful times to emerge from their safes and begin mass shootings? The typically progressive approach of blaming the physical means of committing crime distracts attention from intent and ill will. Please note that most of the violence referenced in this article is happening in progressive utopias like Chicago, Baltimore, and yes, Seattle and Portland. Could it be that decades of progressive urban policy have had a detrimental impact on cultures in these leftist utopias? One might consider family and community… Read more »

Vern

An inanimate object can’t fight back, that’s what the intellectually lazy like.

SEMPAI

God help me if my dinner is interrupted by a White male or female or a Silverback with a BLM state of mind to raise my hand or else, regardless if there are 200 on the street somebody’s going to be staring down 2 barrels mine and my wife’s.
Fukn with my dinner and threatening me may cost you your life.
All I wanted was some shrimp and grits.

Rowboat

I’m with you, Sempai ! I’d be raising my left hand, in the one finger salute, because my right hand will be occupied by Mr. Ruger !

alzada

RIGHT ON !!

Tionico

raise your left hand as a distraction, appropriate digit extended, as the right hand does its usual work.

gregs

again, they blame the inanimate object, not the person. gun violence has not decreased because leftists will not prosecute felons, especially felons with firearms violations, to the fullest extent of the law.
don’t let the left spout the lies they do, shout back at them with the truth, it is the person not the object.
if you are out eating and are attacked, each and every table has a multitude of weapons on it, silverware, glasses, plates, chairs and even the table itself. and if you are carrying save that for last resort. prepare yourselves.

Rich

Eveyone, keep in mind that co-founder and Gifford’s husband Mark Kelly is running for U.S. Senate in AZ. If you live in AZ then please vote for McSally, not another gun-grabber in the Senate.

Elisa Delaurenti

It would be a real treat if those beasts tried pulling their BS here in Montana. Interrupt my meal with threats and violence and I’ll interrupt your life.

Last edited 3 years ago by Elisa Delaurenti
alzada

RIGHT ON! Same for SOUTH DAKOTA, bring it on and be ENDED !!

alzada

Don’t have a weapon, grab your steak knife !!

JoeUSooner

Exactly! In Oklahoma, such invasive and threatening actions are indeed (rationally) considered justification for self-defense.

Anyone who threatens me, my family, or my home with violence will [not “may” or “might” but WILL] bleed. End of discussion.

PakRat

I will stop at nothing to remove you and your cohorts from my dinning experience. I may be old but remember Age and Treachary wil over come youth and skill.
If my loved ones are present I will revert to what kept me alive in Vietnam, It will not end well for you and your cohorts, I accept the fact I may get hurt b ut you will be sent to the hospital. .

Vern

Shooting first and asking questions later was a form of survival, the way the violators of freedom in this country are going, that form of survival will come back into use.

Tionico

Yup. A nice quiet stone bed in the basement. Hey they even give yuo a personalised custom made toe tag in that ward…….. it would look great on them.

hoss

In this election I predict that there will be more votes than registered voters in many if not all districts.

Elisa Delaurenti

Ahhh Yes. The Old SHAKEDOWN.
“Awful nice restaurant ya got there. Be a shame if it got burned down tomorrow morning.”
Their comrade Al Sharpton became a very wealthy person with this tactic. (Side note: Sharpton doesn’t even pay his taxes and the IRS doesn’t care!)
The “Sharpton Shakedown” is being passed around.

BigJim

I would kill you with my bare hands if you came into the Diner where i sat down to eat and pulled that shit. I suppose it’s going to take quite a few more dead bodies before they ‘get it’.

alzada

Grab your steak knife, it will do a good job !!

WJ

In many cases these moronic protesters see idiots like these two holding signs & join in without a clue what the protest is even about.

Vern

They aren’t smart enough to know that.

Tionico

Gun violence hasn’t stopped during the pandemic—it’s gotten worse Yes, that is a true statement. BUT, how’s about we examine the causative factors that might explain this phenomenon? When rioting and wanton destruction, arson, murderous rampages, overrun a city on a nightly basis for near the third part of a year. normal folks who would prefer to go about their normal business get concerned. Thjey stop going the places that used to be safe, like downtown Portland, Cap Hill in Seattle, because they fear for their own safety. Now, add in that cops are being ordered to stand down, play… Read more »

wil

i seem to recall this “mr. rittenauer” was in possession of a weapon ILLEGALLY and crossed state lines with it. if u want your freedoms you have to give others theirs.

Rowboat

The ONLY thing that you got right is Mr. Rittenauer, so I take it that you are much younger than him, and it shows in your ignorance of the FACTS in the case. Put down the Kool aid and pot pipe and grow up .

wil

humph! but i thought it was illegal for a minor to be in POSSESSION of a long gun in wisconsin…keyword? “POSSESSION”

hoss

Have you ever heard the old axiom ” it’s better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth, and remove all doubt.
Get you facts straight before you comment, or maybe you already know the truth, and just decided to out right LIE!

wil

take your own advice and learn the law, only trump can disregard the law. you and i have to follow it…ideologically is not law!!!

wil

they all need to go…every democrat or republican currently in office needs to go and we need a new start…this current congress is deadlocked and they only cater to “their” voters. the problem is there is a much larger population that any one politicians base. think bigger than yourself and remember if you want your freedoms YOU MUST GIVE OTHERS THEIRS!!!

wil

therein lies the rub…does that make you feel superior by calling me a boy. you are part of the problem, i am just grateful you are old and will soon be dead. does that hurt…lol

wil

my world is pretty good…i’m 52, retired and probably still make more money than you. my house is worth more than your trailer ever will. i spend my time being productive and not on an echo chamber website calling for a war. i don’t have to wait by the mailbox for a ss check to eat…few more mins closer to that permanent nap?

wil

if that makes you feel better to deny reality so be it…nothing to prove to you, i just wanted you to know i live better than you. life is good! (try to enjoy what little you have left)

wil

tsall good bud! just cause you really do live in a trailer doesn’t make you any less than me, it just means u can’t afford some things that i can. soon you will not be worried bout any of this, it will just be nothingness (death in case you didn’t get that…lol)

wil

“too” not to. i retired two years ago…and i did it on the economy not in the military meaning while you sit and wait for your check every month i just have a crazy fat bank account and more money coming in everyday based on my work outside of the military.

wil

side note: i think i said this to you before and can’t say it enough to people that actually served there. welcome back! and thank you for your service! my uncle also served there, unfortunately he died as a result. i mean that sincerely. trump getting 5 deferments doesn’t bother you? i just did 3 years 3 months and 1 day and it bothers me to no end that’s hes a coward and calls others that served losers. now back to your dumbass ideology…watch this…I MADE A STUPID ASSUMPTION ABOUT YOU AND APOLOGIZE. i made my money being self employed,… Read more »

wil

uh…in your mind (i’m not saying one way or another) if i didn’t that makes me a bad person? please refer to the 1st Amendment! why do you think we all need to be the same to get along?

wil

screw the 1st Amendment, right? any voice that doesn’t agree with your ideology needs to be silenced? man i wish there was a country where they had laws to protect ones rights to free speech! do you know of a place like that?

Random71

Choosing to ignore a person is not silencing them. It is just not allowing nonsense more space between the ears.

Government generally can’t limit speech, citizens on the other hand are free to ignore whom ever they wish, just as they are free to tell some one to shut up.

wil

do that then…that’s why radios come with on/off switches. the fact that others that have nothing to do with a particular conversation are telling a participant in that conversation to stop is an effort to silence a voice.

Random71

Some of us dont like seeing other humans waste energy on sisyphean tasks, and will advise them its useless to push certain rocks up certain hills.

Last edited 3 years ago by Random71
wil

semantics! and like i said was bored yesterday…lol. in my reality, you silly warmongers mean nothing!

Random71

He should, I would but sometimes feeding the trolls is fun…..

wil

exactly! was bored today and thought ide feed some myself!

Random71

Hmmm, so cognative phase inversion does exist.

wil

i’m good…i’ll keep an eye on the obits…hahahahaha

wil

trust me, that i’m not worried about in the least! you seem to not recognize that you brought it on yourself. respect gets respect, pretty simple!

wil

i’m anything you want me to be…reality doesn’t matter to you. DEATH!

wil

i’m not suicidal if that’s what you infer. we will all be there one day, some like you just sooner than others…hahahaha

wil

think i say that based on The Constitution…read it!

hippybiker

As per WI law. A 17 year old May posses and carry a long gun(except a sawed off shotgun or rifle). Also, open carry is legal even without a permit. Additionally, the rifle was not his. It was supplied to him by someone else. Even so, it would not be illegal for him to cross the State line with it. Hunters of all ages do it all the time. How do I know these things, you ask? I’m a former resident of Illinois and a former Federally licensed firearms dealer and manufacturer. if you’re going to talk about firearms laws,… Read more »

wil

Wisconsin state law 948.60(2)(a) states: “Any person under 18 years of age who possesses or goes armed with a dangerous weapon is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor”. uh…illinois is not wisconsin…just sayin!

wil

tee-hee…aren’t you just the most (un)clever person!

wil

isn’t that what i just said to you but in a more witty and cleaver way…

wil

you really must be crusty old…your “burns” are straight out of the 50’s. please welcome the sweet release of a permanent sleep sooner than later…oh wait…you don’t have much later left do you…lmao!

wil

awww! the big name caller don’t like it when the tables are reversed? you started it…lol DEATH!

wil

nah, i wanna live forever, too bad i can’t. like i said my life is good!!!

wil

now you need to add more context to your post…

wil

respect is a two way street…it’s actually the first word i can recall asking my father for the definition of. like i said you started it…

wil

your hate for me is based on your own stupid assumptions…isn’t that true of your entire ideology?

wil

do you think assuming i am associated with blm make your silly comments any better?

wil

that’s typical! people that think like you used to hide their silly ideology. trump just makes you think it’s ok to bring out.

wil

can i ask if you see any of this “projection” in trump?

Larry

You seem to recall wrongly.

He was in possession of a weapon legally, at home, and never crossed state lines with it. He crossed state lines to do his day job 12 miles away; then took a weapon lent him by a friend for self-protection before the two of them entered a hazardous area at the request of a business owner, where he performed first-aid services. It had to be a rifle because federal law did not allow him to carry a handgun at his age.

wil

does wisconsin have any say in their gun laws? cause i think (fact) they say a minor can’t be in POSSESSION of a long gun.

Tionico

David you crack me up. I did nt read the byline, just Giffords and the pic of the pair of coopted kid cuties, and so went to the article. By the end of the first paragraph I “smelled Codrea” all over it. Had to check the byline.. yup.

Nice job exposing this criminal conspiracy RICO mob action. Somewhee someone should fill a medium sized swimming pool with glyphosate and invide Giffy, Wattsername, and their side kicks, agents, supporters, inclund Soros, for a nice little swim.

Larry

Glyphosate? Wrong gun grabber.

Dave in Fairfax

Old Vet & Will, Fredy’s written up a ticket on it. It looks to me as though it happens when Oldvet types @ will. Somehow that comes out as @wjd. The letters aren’t close enough on a keyboard for it to be a fumble fingers problem. Fredy thought it might be a machine code issue. I only see it happening on Oldvet’s machine when he addresses comments to Will, so maybe it’s a keyboard problem on OV’s computer. OV, do you have a spare keyboard that you could plug in and see if it happens with that one? That would… Read more »

Last edited 3 years ago by Dave in Fairfax
Dave in Fairfax

OV,
Nolo Problemo.
BTW, you CAN plug in a USB keyboard and use it instead of the built-in. I sent one to my 95 y.o. Mother in Seattle. The extra large letters in BOLD black on YELLOW keys make for a good contrast.

Dave in Fairfax

OV,
Depending on your OS, you can plug almost any accessory in and use it instead of the built-in. You might be able to plug your computer into your TV, for example and play movies that way. Check for an HDMI plug on the computer and the back of the TV.

Rock

Gifford USING the non fact knowing children to push her BULLSHIT point. imagine that. Feed them BULLSHIT and put them in front of cameras holding the signs they did ZERO fact checking on… Smart kids.

RoyD

As they used to say, “Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids!”

Tionico

I like the warped variant of that one a lot better.. “silly wizard, kicks are for trigs.

RoyD

I did very well in and enjoyed the Hell out of Trig class. Thanks Mr. Griffin.

Dave in Fairfax

OV,
Not a clue. I was going to ask you. I figured that is was some secret handshake or something that I hadn’t been read in on. %-) Lemme see if I can find out. I sent Fredy an e-mail, I’ll let you know when/if I can find anything out.

Last edited 3 years ago by Dave in Fairfax
Knute

I’d also like to know what happened with his “too slow to race” horse with the infected hoof. He had a farrier coming, and that was the last time he posted.

Dave in Fairfax

Knute,
I passed the questions on to him, we’ll see what he says…or not.

Knute

Thanks, Dave. Sorry that you have to be the go-between. 🙁

Dave in Fairfax

Knute, I live to serve. %-) It’s really not a problem. Individual privacy is an important, and under attack, principle (proper spelling). I am strongly against doxxing regardless of the circumstances. Back channel is the only way that I know of, to facilitate communications and manage privacy at the same time. I’m sure that none of us want our names and addresses attached to our communication. It would allow a field day amongst our opposition forces, I heard back from Bill, he’s facing the same situation that all of us are, allocation of resources. guns & ammo vs computer or… Read more »

Big George

Actually, I was being kind…I was going to suggest ‘something’ else which has a ‘BJ’ logo if you catch my drift! And besides…’Gabby Gifford’ a’int no man…just another progressive liberaturd dumbocrap with an anti-gun agenda…like her hubby…’FAT MIKE’, the ‘astronut’!

Big George

Nice photo…they’re such cute lil indoctrinated girls. They’ll probably do anything for a piece of candy…even when told to ‘stand here and hold this sign sweety…my name is Gabby’!

Rock

Jonestown all over again, buy KOOL-AID stock NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!! WooHoo !

Big George

ONLY liberaturds drink ‘kool-aid’…they seem to have acquired a taste for the stuff over the last 4 years.

Rock

I didn’t mean the Kool-Aid was for the landlslide win, I am 100% PRO TRUMP ! He WILL win by a landslide, I have faith in the REAL Americans.
I meant for the idiots (libtards) committing suicide as in Jonestown, DRINK your LIBTARD Kool-Aid by all means !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rock

I guess I should have been clearer…
The Kool-Aid was for the LIBTARDS to commit suicide by.
TRUMP 2020 by a LANDSLIDE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wil

yup! kill someone for interrupting your meal…equal rights? who cares as long as it’s not you that’s being treated “less than”. you people kill me! your hate for your own country is dizzying!!! you would rather align yourselves with RUSSIA of all places than respect The Constitution. All of you deranged hate mongers are the ones that need to leave this country. if your hate is so great that you want to affect other people with that hate, that could care less about you or what you have then you are the problem. if you want your rights as a… Read more »

SEMPAI

Go protest in any other country you die in the street.
Now that’s Communism.

Last edited 3 years ago by SEMPAI
wil

wuuuuh? the world is so much bigger than your narrow views…how do you personally feel about putin? do u really call yourself a patriot? you hav no idea or willfully choose to ignore trumps lies and deceit. here’s a question for you; what your ideal america look like?

SEMPAI

Narrow ? I’ve Been to more places in more countries than you can spell man bun. You sir will be dead before ANY of these old timers as you say..lying in a street with a BLM shirt on..looking forward to the day I see you..would you prefer FMJ OR BOAT TAIL?

Last edited 3 years ago by SEMPAI
wil

says the dumbass with the gun on a website that caters to gun owners. hopefully there will never be a day where one citizen of this country wants to kill another based on dumb ideology.
if you come here you better come correct!!!

SEMPAI

FMJ OR BOAT TAIL..

wil

pick your poison! would you care to meet up for a lil fisticuffs? not really, i’m more of a defensive guy.

SEMPAI

WWWSHOBUKANMAA.COM
Instructors:
Craig Stewart
Yea that prolly wouldn’t go well for you either..but thanks for playing
I will quote you sir if I may
(Want respect show respect)
We ALL need to show each other more respect, THATS WHATS WRONG WITH OUR COUNTRY TODAY. I have a 7; 00 class to teach time to stretch and hit the heavy bag
Until we meet again goodnight now

wil

everyone has a plan til they get punched in the face…mike tyson. like you, he responded to me. he called me a name thus disrespecting me, i in turn returned the compliment. i’m just better at being a dick than he is. you made threats to me without even making your viewpoint known. hypocrite much?

wil

ok?…like your buddies here, reality that doesn’t fit your narrative is ignored so to argue any point is useless. you will never see me start a fight. regardless of my fighting prowess or lack thereof, there is always someone bigger or badder, so i’m not that guy!

Knute

BTHP makes a better “splat”! Who cares what jerkwad wants? 🙂

Dave in Fairfax

Knute,
Long ago and far away, I used to cut a cross about 1/8″ deep on my hard cast semi-wadcutters. Decreased the accuracy at distance, but they were highly effective at combat range.

Knute

Did you ever do “cut shells”? They were the first ammo I ‘made’, before I even knew such a thing as shotgun slugs existed. Before I even started reloading at age 16. They, too, are very satisfactory at short range. More so in the single shot break actions I was using at the time than for pumps or autoloaders though. They still work well in my current favorite shotgun, a 20 ga coach gun.

Dave in Fairfax

Sure I did cut shells. Poured wax into the ends and let it harden as well. Another choice is buy the cheapest shotgun shells you can find, open the end and pour out the lead to make sinkers and replace it with BBs. Lighter weight and fewer, but higher caliber and velocity. It’s all a trade off. Don’t use the BBs in a gun that you like, the steel is hard on barrels.

Knute

That reminds me of something I was going to try years ago and forgot about. Making wax slugs out of BBs instead of shot. I was thinking that maybe they’d penetrate less than lead due to the greater density, or maybe wouldn’t because they’d stay together better, being harder, and maybe still penetrate the same.as lead. Never got around to doing it though.
I think now might be the time… Thx for the reminder! 🙂

Knute

I always use the type of shotgun wad that cradles the shot to keep the lead from directly touching the barrel, and to give it some cushioning against the G forces. I didn’t always though. I started out using cardboard wadding under and over the shot column, and ended up with leading in the bore. It’s a big mess to scrub out with a brass brush, but an old-timer (then. Long passed away now…) turned me on to “Blue Ointment”, a 1930’s treatment for the crabs, that was a mercury paste. It worked great to swab lead out of any… Read more »

RoyD

“you better come correct!!!” Now that is interesting phraseology.

wil

just keepin it real! interpret it as you wish.

RoyD

Wil’s response did not deserve a down vote so I gave him back his neutral rating. I look at posts that people make as “windows”. Which is one reason we should be able to see who up or down votes also. Now, that doesn’t mean that a person can’t receive a down vote from me; but, they will earn it.