I don’t see the ‘complexity’ to it.
For me it’s simple – I think the manufacture and sale of Assault Rilfes and Handguns to civilians is wrong, I think it is a major contributing factor in the death of thousands of innocent people, especially in the US.
It’s not a moral crusade, one of the best (and perhaps the only) way to influence ‘corporations’ (especially American ones) to do anything that might result in a penny less profit, is to make them lose more by not doing it. It doesn’t matter who works at the Camelbak factory and who works in the Death Machine Works. if enough of us avoid those brands someone somewhere wearing a suit will say ‘shit, our sales are down 3% – why is that?’ (only in corporate bullshit speech) and their numbers people will say ‘consumers are avoiding our brands because some of our other brands make weapons’.
One day, just maybe one day, people who did their own little bit when they can will make the amount of money they lose by making weapons a bigger number than the amount of money they make by making them – and they’ll stop.
I think that’s a more likely way to try to help America, than trying to fight the NRA and their allies through protest and reason – there’s no point trying to reason with them, in a era of ‘alternative facts’ they’ve already got that covered – one side says less guns, one side says more, theirs a counter argument for every fact. So cut of the NRAs money supply.
