Snoop Dogg: Unload Your 401K, Refuse to Invest in Gun
Companies
by AWR Hawkins9 Mar 2015
Rapper Snoop Dogg is
part of new UnloadYour401K campaign aimed at getting
hard-working Americans to call their financial advisers and get rid of any and
all investments in gun companies.
Snoop Dogg appears in a video
for the campaign in which he says, “I’ve been affected by gun violence
over the years, just through the deaths of friend and family members, and
associates.”
In another portion he appears again, this
time holding a white sign with “#ImUnloading” emblazoned upon it. He
says, “I’m unloading for my love ones that I lost.”
Singer/Songwriter Jhene Aiko also appears in the
#ImUnloading video. She says that at age five she was held at gunpoint during a
home invasion. The Los Angeles Clipper’s
Matt Barnes appears in the video too; he says, “Directly, I’ve lost a
few friends, but I think why [the UnloadYour401K movement] touches my heart is
having children of my own.”
On February 19, Breitbart News reported
that Florida State Univesity criminology professor Gary Kleck reaffirmed his
extensive research showing a minimum of 760,000 defensive gun uses (DGUs) each
year. Kleck entered the public dialogue on guns in 1993, after first reporting
his finding on DGUs.
He revisited the work this year to explain that it has
yet to be proven false via “empirical evidence.”
760,000 DGUs a year works out to 2,082 DGUs a day. With that
many lawful uses of firearms for defense of life and property, it seems
American would be better served by learning the value of using guns responsibly
than being encouraged to divest in them or the companies that make them.
Los Angeles Clippers
Richard D. Parsons
is the interim CEO for the Los Angeles
Clippers, and a friend of Kenneth B.
Lerer.
Note: Kenneth B. Lerer
is a friend of Richard D. Parsons,
an advisory board member for Everytown
for Gun Safety, and was the chairman for Public Theater.
Michael R.
Bloomberg is the founder of Everytown
for Gun Safety, and was a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Harlem Children's Zone, and the International Rescue Committee.
George
Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone, and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank).
Daniel
Lufkin is an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, and was a member of the Skull and Bones.
Elie
Wiesel is an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, and a member of the United
States Holocaust Memorial Council.
Michael J. Gerson
was a director at the International
Rescue Committee, and a member of the United
States Holocaust Memorial Council.
Donald
Etra was a member of the Skull and
Bones, a member of the United States
Holocaust Memorial Council, and is Snoop
Dogg’s lawyer.
Stephen A.
Feinberg is a trustee at the Public
Theater, the CEO for Cerberus
Capital Management L.P., and is Martin
Feinberg’s son.
California
State Teachers' Retirement System is an investor in Cerberus Capital Management L.P., an investor in Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc., and was
an investor in Smith & Wesson.
Sturm, Ruger
& Co., Inc. is a gun manufacturer.
Smith
& Wesson is a gun manufacturer.
New
York State Teachers' Retirement System is an investor in Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc., and an investor
in Smith & Wesson.
Cerberus
Capital Management L.P. is the owner of the Freedom Group.
Freedom Group is
a gun manufacturer.
Michael P.C.
Carns is a director at the Freedom
Group, and was a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank).
Charles O.
Rossotti is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank), and was a commissioner for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
John
Chiang was a tax law specialist for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), is a board member for the California State Teachers' Retirement
System, and a board member for the California
Public Employees Retirement System.
Sean
Harrigan was the board president for the California Public Employees Retirement System, the president of the
Los Angeles Fire and Police Pension
System, and the international VP for the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.
Martin Feinberg
is Stephen A. Feinberg’s father, and
a Newtown (CT) resident.
Newtown
(CT) is the location of the 2012
massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
2012
massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a mass shootings 28 killed, including gunman.
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