145 CEOs Send Senate Fake Numbers With Demand For Red Flag Laws And Background Checks

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Top officers of 145 American companies have cooperated on a letter demanding that the U.S. Senate take up stronger gun control measures in the wake of several mass shooting this year.

The executives from companies including Walmart, Yelp, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Levi Strauss and Company, Uber, and more warned the upper chamber that the country needs stronger background checks, and red flag laws to prevent “gun violence.”

“As leaders of some of America’s most respected companies and those with significant business interests in the United States, we are writing to you because we have a responsibility and obligation to stand up for the safety of our employees, customers and all Americans in the communities we serve across the country,” the CEO letter reads (embedded below)

“Doing nothing about America’s gun violence crisis is simply unacceptable and it is time to stand with the American public on gun safety,” the letter adds.

What the corporate executives above and the liberals who are pushing red flag laws don’t tell you is that they destroy our rights “endowed by our creator.” I am not just talking about the second amendment, red flag laws destroy the concept of due process that our judicial system is based on.

As my friend Dana Loesch explained on Twitter:

Ten reasons why you should oppose #RedFlagLaws, a brief thread.

1) #RedFlagLaws are an inversion of “innocent until proven guilty.” The standard of evidence is low and while state laws vary, many different people, not just family, can report you.

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) September 11, 2019

2) You don’t have to be in the room (and advance notice isn’t required) for the petition to be granted meaning you must wait to defend yourself. Most laws provide no penalty for abuse and no state law allows for civil cause of action against false accusers.

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) September 11, 2019

3) Time varies as to how long until respondents can have their day in court. A study conducted on Indiana’s law, which said 14 day wait, revealed that the average wait was 9 months. Rights delayed are rights denied.

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) September 11, 2019

4) @davekopel , who has done excellent research on this, has noted that of the four states with the oldest gun confiscation laws, Connecticut, Indiana, California, and Washington, no research has revealed any statistical reduction in crime. #RedFlagLaws

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) September 11, 2019

(Also still No. 4) Furthermore, Kopel notes that nearly 1/3 of such orders are improperly issued against innocent people.

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) September 11, 2019

5) No advance notice is given ahead of serving a #RedFlag order. That worked out horribly for Maryland resident Gary Willis, who was shot and killed when answering his door early morning before the sun was up. This puts LEO in a HORRIBLE position of enforcing these orders.

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) September 11, 2019

6) Counsel is not provided (Blumenthal draft does, it’s of little solace considering), meaning you could be like FL man Jonathan Carpenter, who is waging an expensive court battle to clear his name and reclaim his property because his name was too similar to a drug dealer’s.

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) September 11, 2019

7) We aren’t arresting people, we’re arresting guns. State laws ignore the very reason the petition was granted in the first place: danger resulting in violence or mental instability. No mental evaluations given, no charges for a crime.

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) September 11, 2019

8) How will confiscated firearms be stored? Local police will be tasked with figuring out storage and bearing the cost of any liability or insurance — at a time when some struggle with budgets to afford body cams.

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) September 11, 2019

10) Lastly (not really, but I’m sticking to 10), if there is enough evidence to strip you of your rights THERE IS ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO CHARGE YOU or commit you. There are NUMEROUS other options to start fixing this problem WITHOUT sacrificing due process.

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) September 11, 2019

Let’s start by:
– demanding all agencies comply with reporting prohibited possessors to the federal database to stop ineligible people at point of sale.
– demanding prosecutors stop reducing charges and judges issuing weak sentences for felony gun crimes & reduce recidivism…

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) September 11, 2019

… and let’s demand that schools stop coddling dangerous offenders. When kids make rape lists on bathroom walls, have them evaluated. When they message classmates threatening to kill them, that’s actionable, arrest them. ENFORCE THE LAW.

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) September 11, 2019

The letter from 145 Corporations also regurgitates the anti-gun left’s false claim that “Every day, 100 Americans are shot and killed and hundreds more are wounded.”

However, the truth is that most people killed by firearms (over 60 percent) in the U.S. are killed in suicides, not “gun violence.” Murders only account for about 37 percent of gun-related deaths.

More importantly, deaths by firearms has fallen in the last twenty years down since its highest numbers in 1993. The per capita gun death rate is also far lower than in 1973. And both the murder rate and the suicide rate are lower than they were in the 1970s.

Furthermore, there are nearly 400 million guns in private hands today, more than there ever has been in U.S. history. Yet murder rates have fallen.

But then again, many of the executives who signed the letter below are the same people who promise you an opportunity to purchase a 60-inch TV really cheap the day after Thanksgiving and neglect to tell you there’s only one TV for every ten stores. So it makes sense their gun numbers are a bit on the funky side.

The full letter to the Senate is below:

letter to senate by Jeffrey Dunetz on Scribd

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