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BainsBane

(53,032 posts)
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 02:06 AM Jan 2013

If you have a 401k or pension fund

Or own other mutual funds, call your fund administrator to insist they divest from gun companies. If you can, make any changes to you own portfolio to take money out of funds that invest in guns.

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If you have a 401k or pension fund (Original Post) BainsBane Jan 2013 OP
ummm..ok backwoodsbob Jan 2013 #1
You could have just ignored the thread BainsBane Jan 2013 #4
there's a reason for the word 'backwards' Skittles Jan 2013 #8
Lol, an understandable error. arthritisR_US Jan 2013 #10
I'll pass, thank you. nt Llewlladdwr Jan 2013 #2
Post removed Post removed Jan 2013 #7
Some folks like to profit from the stock of the companies that make their precious. Hoyt Jan 2013 #3
Persuade your zoning officials that gun stores and firing ranges Loudly Jan 2013 #5
Good point BainsBane Jan 2013 #6
The only way to get through these people is arthritisR_US Jan 2013 #9
Good idea Sherman A1 Jan 2013 #11

BainsBane

(53,032 posts)
4. You could have just ignored the thread
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 02:20 AM
Jan 2013

There is nothing you people won't defecate on, is there? Don't you have some graves of murdered children to dance on?

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Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
3. Some folks like to profit from the stock of the companies that make their precious.
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 02:19 AM
Jan 2013

First time I've used that term, but running out of space and it fits.

I agree with you. Love to see stockholders pay the price. To be fair, a lot of folks might not know their funds invest in gun profiteers. Time to get out of such funds before every decent investor catches on.

 

Loudly

(2,436 posts)
5. Persuade your zoning officials that gun stores and firing ranges
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 02:20 AM
Jan 2013

aren't consistent with community values.

Ask them to designate such establishments as unwholesome as porn stores with private sexual activity booths.

arthritisR_US

(7,288 posts)
9. The only way to get through these people is
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 02:55 AM
Jan 2013

through their pocket books. Clearly, the deaths of innocents fails to move them.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
11. Good idea
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 04:52 AM
Jan 2013

I was thinking of the divestiture movement of the Apartheid era a few years back myself. I think this is really the only thing that will make any difference. It is really all about the money.

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