tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post1500963529197932418..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Stevie Smith: OblivionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-14293373703250549222015-12-05T08:55:00.694-08:002015-12-05T08:55:00.694-08:00Terry and David, Many thanks.
2nd Amendment: isn&...Terry and David, Many thanks.<br /><br />2nd Amendment: isn't that the one that says gun manufacturers and vendors, along with bankers and insurance executives and hedge fund traders and the ordinary joe next door who's got an awesome arsenal in his garage, have a perfect right to continuously derive profit, not to mention, even more interestingly, other forms of satisfaction, from their preferred modus operandi, even if it's detrimental to the living as such?<br /><br />I did notice the sub-trivial story detail to the effect that the weapons were legally purchased at Annie's Get Your Gun in Corona. <br /><br />Have you ever noticed how it's always the sticky bite-size bits of routine horror amid the wider calamity that cling maddeningly to the cranial noodleroni (or is that just the dementia knocking at the bulkhead again??) <br /><br />I guess the putative relevance would be that whatever else was or wasn't involved in, with or around the events in San Berdoo, it's safe to say that American culture, and American lifestyle, and American business, evidently played a part.<br /><br />On that constitutional point raised by tpw, here's a brief bit on exactly how this latest bloodbath affected business: <br /><br />Gun-makers' stocks surge after San Bernardino shootings: Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger & Co jump early Thursday, part of a trend that has seen gun-makers’ stocks quadruple S&P 500 returns in past five years: Jana Kaspervic, The Guardian, 3 December 2015 <br /><br />Stocks of two major gun-makers surged on Thursday morning, the day after a shooting in San Bernardino, California, left 14 people dead.<br /><br />More than an hour after the stock markets opened, Smith & Wesson stocks were up by 2.62%. Stocks of Sturm, Ruger & Co were up 1.67%.<br /><br />Gunmakers saw their stock rise even as the overall stock market fell on concerns that the Federal Reserve would raise interests later this month.<br /><br />Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger & Co saw their stocks surge in October as well after a shooting at Umpqua community college in Oregon left 10 people dead, including the gunman. Investors are betting that the shootings will lead to more gun sales: a CNN Money analysis found that over the past five years these stocks have had four times the returns of the S&P 500 stock market.<br /><br />Sturm, Ruger & Co stock also went up the morning after San Bernardino shooting.<br /><br />On Tuesday, the FBI revealed that last week on Black Friday the National Instant Criminal Background Check System performed a record number of gun background checks. About 185,345 background checks were processed, a 5% increase from last year – and equivalent to about two a second.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-70076121901093266702015-12-05T05:26:35.121-08:002015-12-05T05:26:35.121-08:00Thanks Tom for this sad and prayerful post. We all...Thanks Tom for this sad and prayerful post. We all wait for that which "must come even if not soon."<br />-DavidBe the BQEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11621320435990191224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-69920117449527366922015-12-04T17:35:19.028-08:002015-12-04T17:35:19.028-08:00A heartbreaking and mysterious post. Beautiful poe...A heartbreaking and mysterious post. Beautiful poem. Like I always say: repeal the 2nd Amendment. Thanks, Tom. tpwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05909239000589253931noreply@blogger.com