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Originally Posted by janmcn
NBC and ABC News are reporting that Dick's Sporting Goods is pulling all it's semi-automatic weapons from it's shelves. They apparently aren't waiting for congress to act, but are taking this action on their own. Good for them.
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That's a great development. When I was trying to get a really big focus on the problem of lack of access to practical information through libraries for victims of violent crimes I wrote everyone I could think of who might be affected by such violence. I wrote a huge number of Hollywood studios enough so that I got told to get an agent. Companies like Publix's headquarters as well as a huge number of other companies. The NRA, the National Education Association, the NFL Commissioner as well as those of all the other major sports leagues, prominent best seller writers, comedians, various celebrities in almost every field, and everyone else I could think of who might take a look at my thousands of e-mails and snail mails. I kind of made a part time job of it even though no one was paying me for it.
I did get the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education to forgive a stipend grant based on this work I did from home computers in Florida and from a house earlier from California. The stipend grant was for working in librarianship in the State of Nevada for a set amount of time.
I do think we can make a huge difference in solving the problem of violence in the US if we all raise our voices and do something like writing your Representatives, sign petitions, etc.
Do think education is the key to solving it as well as getting weapons meant for soldiers off our streets.