NP - It's not the video games

[Prashant Kumar]

The exact impression I had; what's the phrase, "go big or go home"?

P.

On Saturday, 22 December 2012, Mark Kohut wrote:

> one journo I follow said the BBC asked twice if this press cofernece was
> real---or some staged parody??
>
> Pynchon knows....
>
>   *From:* Prashant Kumar <siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com');>
> >
> *To:* pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'pynchon-l at waste.org');>>
> *Sent:* Friday, December 21, 2012 11:09 AM
> *Subject:* Re: NP - It's not the video games
>
> The NRA press conference is, I think, the worst thing I've ever heard this
> year....I feel sick, I just...am I alone, Americans? How did an association
> of hunting enthusiasts who turned into a lobby group who capitalised on a
> wedge issue - to such an extent that they changed the interpretation of an
> Amendment -- gain so much political capital that they can insist on what
> amounts to siege logic, under the guise of rightthinking action? What
> happens when the cop with an itch meets the kid with a bulge in his jacket
> acting out? Why do people who groan when they get out of chairs think they
> have the requisite nerve and alacrity to reach the gun, much less to kill a
> gunman?
>
> Where does your society go from here? Surely there are only so many sharks
> to jump?
>
> P.
>
> On Friday, 21 December 2012, Charles Albert wrote:
>
> Yes and no...The share prices are probably just a function of a temporary
> demand supply imbalance......firearms sales are very strong. A friend who
> works for a specialty shop which supplies barrels to manufacturers like
> SIG/SAUER reports that business is booming. Their clients are the Imelda
> Marcoses of Metal.
>
>
> love,
> cfa
>
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 4:40 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/more-companies-pull-out-of-gun-investments-121912
>
>  *Following the announcement* by Cerberus<http://news.yahoo.com/newtown-backlash-prompts-gun-investment-overhaul-032547862--sector.html>,
> the capital management firm that said yesterday that it was getting out of
> the firearms business, it appears that the notion of divestment is starting
> to catch on around the country.
>
> The $150.1 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund is reviewing its
> investments in firearm manufacturers, a spokesman for New York State
> Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said on Tuesday. New York City's pension funds
> are also reviewing investments and may sell nearly $18 million worth of
> stock in four companies that manufacture guns and ammunition, a spokesman
> said on Tuesday.
>
> The city's $128 billion pension funds hold nearly $14 million worth of
> shares in ammunition maker Olin Corp, $1.7 million in gun maker Smith &
> Wesson Holding Corp, $2.4 million in gun maker Sturm Ruger & Co Inc and
> $17,866 worth of stock in Brazilian gun maker Forjas Taurus SA. Shares of
> Smith & Wesson fell nearly 10 percent, shares of Sturm Roger fell 7.7
> percent, shares of Forjas Taurus fell 3.8 percent and shares of Olin fell
> 2.1 percent on Tuesday.
>
> If you're wondering why the NRA is extending what Joe Scarborough called
> "the olive branch" this time, there's your reason. That's the real thing
> that's changed since the massacre in Connecticut. There is a fundamental
> reaction against the people who profit from mass slaughter, and the dots
> are being connected in ways they haven't been previously. The NRA is the
> lobbying arm of the armaments industry, and those guys are starting to lose
> money by the fistful, and they can see more of this happening, so, I
> guarantee you, we're going to be hearing about the "many causes" of gun
> violence on Friday. The NRA will suddenly become an advocate for lavish
> funding of the nation's mental-health system. These clowns didn't grow a
> conscience over the weekend. Their sugar daddies are losing money, and
> that's all that ever has mattered.
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 3:19 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> More to this specific point, she's using the unavoidable "nothing you can
> do about it" presence of evil as an excuse for inaction on gun control.
>   There's no reason to consider why they kill so many more people in the
> United States than in other wealthy industrialized nations. Not a question
> worth asking! Maybe we're just that much more evil as a nation!
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> This, of course, presumes the basic dichotomy of good and evil. I, along
> with a number of other folks, consider that a false dichotomy and assume,
> rather, a multi-valent, many-leveled description invo
>
>
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