
Below are some articles which show those who use timing and occurrences happening about them to only better their position in society.
The parent company as it turns out is none other than The Kroger Company. For those of you not familiar with The Kroger company, then sit back and come to know.
The Kroger company has been around since 1883, when Barney Kroger invested his life savings of $372 to open a grocery store at 66 Pearl Street in downtown Cincinnati.
OOPS! Have to stop there since I will be going out to shovel walks for a living. It showed!
Check back later today for the conclusion of this, and what The Kroger company and Big Brother started at Kroger stores in Ohio near Wright Patterson Air Force base.
It has a lot to do with the stories about taking your guns!
OOPS! Have to stop there since I will be going out to shovel walks for a living. It showed!
Check back later today for the conclusion of this, and what The Kroger company and Big Brother started at Kroger stores in Ohio near Wright Patterson Air Force base.
It has a lot to do with the stories about taking your guns!
Big Brother in the Food business!
Keep the Fear,
for you, the masters can steer.
Not!
Conspiracy theorist are going love this one, except it is not a conspiracy, just truth.
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LA offers groceries for guns in annual buyback
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
LOS ANGELES --
Los Angeles police are offering grocery store gift cards for guns in a
buyback program that was moved up in the wake of the Connecticut school
shooting.
Long lines of cars have formed Wednesday as people turn in
weapons at Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena and the Van Nuys Masonic
Temple.
The anonymous buyback program means weapons can be turned
in with no questions asked. Handguns, rifles and shotguns can be
exchanged for $100 Ralphs grocery store gift cards. Assault weapons earn
a $200 card.
The program, designed to get guns off the streets,
usually is held in May. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa decided to do it now
in the wake of the Dec. 14 shooting rampage in Newtown, Conn.
A buyback last May netted about 1,700 guns.
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Los Angeles police offer gift cards to take guns off streets
LOS ANGELES |
(Reuters)
- Police traded gift cards for guns in Los Angeles on Wednesday, in a
buyback program Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced as a crime-fighting
response to the deadly shooting rampage in Newtown, Connecticut.
Police officers handed out $200
grocery store gift cards to people who turned in an automatic weapon,
and $100 gift cards to those who provided a handgun, rifle or shotgun.
Los
Angeles has held an annual gun buyback since 2009, and similar events
have been organized in years past in several other cities, including
Detroit and Boston. Police in San Diego had a buyback earlier this
month.
Some experts say the
buybacks have little effect in reducing gun violence, but Villaraigosa
touted the buyback program as one step that can be taken in response to
the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, on
December 14 that claimed the lives of 20 children and six adult staff
members.
The shooter, Adam Lanza, killed himself and also shot to death his mother at the home he shared with her, police said.
Los
Angeles normally has its gun buyback in May, but Villaraigosa announced
last week that the city would have this special buyback in response to
the Newtown tragedy.
"There are a
number of things we can do. This is just one of them," Villaraigosa said
on CNN. "We've got to also address the culture of violence that we've
got in this country."
At last
count, the Los Angeles gun buyback had collected 1,366 firearms,
including 477 handguns and 49 assault weapons, said Vicki Curry, a
spokeswoman for the mayor.
The
buyback ended at 4 p.m. local time, but a final tally of guns collected
was not expected to be released before Thursday. In May, the city's
annual gun buyback program collected 1,673 firearms at six locations,
compared to two locations used for the program on Wednesday, Curry said.
At
each of the locations where the buyback was held, a line of cars
stretched around the block, Curry said. People dropping off their guns
were asked to leave them in the trunks of their cars, where officers
retrieved the weapons. Those surrendering their guns were allowed to
remain anonymous.
While officials
in Los Angeles and elsewhere have said the gun buybacks help keep
streets safe, a 2004 report by the National Research Council of the
National Academies questioned that conclusion.
Among
the report's findings were that guns surrendered in buybacks tend to be
old or inherited from previous owners, and not likely to be used in
crime. Also, gun owners find it easy to replace their firearms,
according to the report, which was titled "Firearms and Violence: A
Critical Review."
(Reporting By Alex Dobuzinskis; editing by Todd Eastham)
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CHICAGO |
(Reuters)
- Many gun owners fear a ban on assault weapons like one used in the
Connecticut elementary school massacre would be the first step to taking
away their guns, even though the second amendment of the U.S.
Constitution protects the right to bear arms.
Since a shooting rampage last Friday left 26
people dead at a school in Newtown, Connecticut using a type of assault
rifle called an AR-15, a growing number of politicians have called for a
ban on assault weapons.
"I wept
like a baby when I saw what was happening in Connecticut," recalls
Claude Diehl, 50, a self-employed structural designer in Savannah,
Georgia, who has two daughters of his own. Diehl owns a number of
weapons, including an AR-15 and several Glock 9mm pistols with
high-capacity ammunition clips that gun control advocates want to see
banned.
"Everyone is blaming the
weapon used in this tragedy and calling it an assault weapon," he said.
"But really, what gun isn't an assault weapon in the wrong hands?"
"If we start with an assault weapon ban, where does it end?"
Interviews
conducted with gun owners in 10 states on Wednesday elicited a similar
response when they were asked about assault weapon ban legislation
supported by Democratic President Barack Obama.
"I
honestly think a total ban (on guns) is coming," said Ryan Jones, 31,
who works in security in the Detroit area and who proudly boasts he
killed his deer for this season recently with a pistol at 35 yards.
"But if they ever try to take away what founded this country they'll have a major problem."
"For a start, They'd turn me into a criminal because legal or not I'd still carry a gun to protect my family."
Gun
owners said that in the wake of the massacre, the focus should be on
better access to mental health for people such as suspected Connecticut
shooter Adam Lanza, or finding ways to prevent guns from ending up in
the hands of the mentally ill.
INDIVIDUALS, NOT FIREARMS SEEN AS ISSUE
Lanza
was apparently seen as troubled before last week's rampage, though not
as a risk to others. The weapons he used belonged to his mother, who was
also his first victim.
"A lot of
this comes down to state of mind," said Jose Rodriguez, 47, a gun safety
trainer based in the Chicago area. "If someone wants to commit a crime
like that, they will find a way to do it."
"The type of gun is not the issue here, the issue is the individual."
Other
gun owners argued that as America is already awash with so many
firearms, including assault rifles, any ban would have little impact.
The Small Arms Survey, a research project at the Graduate Institute of
International and Development Studies in Geneva, estimated in 2007 that
American civilians owned around 270 million firearms - more than six
times either China or India, which both have far larger populations.
"If
someone is planning to break the law, I don't see how a ban will stop
them getting firearms," said Randy Keller, who is training to be a nurse
in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and who owns assault rifles. "Nothing
that's being proposed would have prevented the tragedy in Connecticut
last week."
JB Williams, a
conservative activist in Nashville, said he received between 600 and 800
emails a day this week from people concerned their gun rights were
threatened by the "far left."
"In
many cases gun owners are people concerned with individual rights," he
said. "They see this push to ban assault weapons as part of a broad
attack on many fronts on their individual rights by people who do not
value what is part of the DNA of this country."
Gun
enthusiasts such as Claude Diehl said the problem America faces is much
broader and cuts much deeper than gun ownership and is a "cultural
issue of the heart."
"President Obama
spoke at the weekend about protecting children," he said. "But how are
we protecting our children when we kill 3,500 babies a day in America
through abortion?"
"If they banned
abortion I'd give them all of my guns, every last one of them. But
instead of focusing on the bigger issues, it's easier to go after guns."
(Reporting by Nick Carey; Editing by Greg McCune and Todd Eastham)
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Published on Dec 18, 2012
Residents of New Jersey's most
impoverished and murder-prone city turned in a record number of weapons
in a recent gun buyback program, and officials on Tuesday surmised that
the Connecticut school shooting could have something to do with that.
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The elementary school shooting in Connecticut prompted several Bay Area residents to take part in the gun buyback program.
Any instrument and/or object of choice to do harm is not the problem,
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