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