Monster.com owner joins in gun control battle

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Sounds like another billionaire Socialist at work.

"The hope is to get both mainstream Americans and gun owners to rally around
"common sense" solutions . . ." (as in registration and photo licenses).

Monster.com owner joins in gun control battle

NEW YORK (AP) - Monster.com owner Andrew McKelvey has joined in the gun control fight, sinking $12 million into a new group, Americans for Gun Safety, Newsweek reports in this week's edition.

But the group will not be a typical gun control advocacy organization. McKelvey sees his group falling somewhere in between avid antigun supporters and the National Rifle Association.

The hope is to get both mainstream Americans and gun owners to rally around "common sense" solutions, such as tougher enforcement of existing gun control laws and safer gun designs to prevent children from using them, McKelvey told the magazine.

The group will make its debut this week with television ads in Colorado and Oregon, where referendums on background checks for gun shows are slated this November.

McKelvey, who according to Forbes magazine is worth $2.1 billion, made the bulk of his fortune with Monster.com, the world's biggest online job-hunting and recruitment portal. He lives in New York City.

Americans for Gun Safety is nonpartisan. It has already reached out to more than 50 statewide gun violence groups with the offer that if they become chapters, they will be given $60,000 a year to pay their staff and equip their offices.

Twenty-eight groups have already signed on.

Copyright © Newsday, Inc.
 
As I've said so many times, "the Mega Millionaire Marxists and the Billionaire Bolsheviks."

It's always, "compromise, compromise, compromise," Until we are "compromised" into slavery. What do we give up? Our Rights, our Liberty, our Freedom.

What do THEY give up?? Nothing. They just take and take and take.

Same with this rich anus-hole Marxist. We serfs and slaves must submit to our masters... meaning this anus-hold.

Sure I will: when Hell freezes over. J.B.

[This message has been edited by Jay Baker (edited October 01, 2000).]
 
Since when does "made lots of money in the Capitalist System" = "knows what's Good for all and should be able to tell them what to do"?

I think many of those who do the former get the idea they can do the latter. Wrong!!
 
Fact is....and best all you big money wannbees best consider....you piss us off and start some royal doodoo....your business will suffer big time.

These people have made their fortunes in a (in a historical view) an abberation time. Yeah, things seem good now...but does Monster.com make anything tangible? Nope...paper money. Had Y2K occurred, Monster woulda been toast....they make nada.

So, Andy boyo...push it, get in our collective face and see how long you retain your billions. Best you keep your yap shut and be happy you can go to the bank

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"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" RKBA!
 
Go to their web site, select 'contact us', and send an email to them.

Let him / them know, politely, that you won't be using or recommending their service ... and, why not.

Nice to see another wealthy, liberal gun bigot throwing his weight for tyranny.

Regards from AZ
 
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Buy guns. LOTS of guns. As fast as you can. And reloading supplies. Enough for 100 years. Soon.
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Dennis,

Why would I need to do that ?

All my "gear" is in military caliber.

All resupply of my large ammo stock will come from the generous "donations" of UN Blue Helmet ammunition company ;-)

RKBA Forever !

Registration and confiscation ?

Not a chance in Hell, Bub!
 
Did I read this right? He's going to give $60,000 a year to "gun violence groups" to set up offices and pay staff. Just how violent do you have to be to qualify?

Does anyone know where to contact them? I sure could use a few extra bucks come Christmas time. For a extra 60/yr I can get a lot more violent than I am! :D

RKBA!
 
Having just finished working for Andy McKelvey less than a month ago, let me say that I'm not surprised. He's an older guy, early sixties I believe, working on his 5th or 6th wife with an enormous amount of energy and ego. He had to channel it all somewhere since he really doesn't run the company anymore. I suspected he'd turn to philanthropy of some kind. I met him 3 times and he's a typical CEO, all 'vision' and no idea of the mechanics of how to get there.

I never did like the guy, he hires idiots and wasted more money on his private jet than was ever justifiable. He had to have the top-of-the-line model that seats something like 14 people. I've got a feeling that he jumped on the issue that he thinks will get him the most press coverage, he loves that kind of stuff.
 
Off Topic, but indicative of where these peoples' priorities are -

Ted Turner's Gift To Department Called 'a Joke'

BY PAUL HAMMEL

WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER

Gordon, Neb. - Some folks here are grumbling over what they consider a too stingy donation by billionaire Ted Turner following a huge fire on his bison ranch.

Turner, the owner of the Atlanta Braves baseball team and the nation's largest private landowner, recently donated $500 to the Gordon Volunteer Fire Department after wildfires consumed 26,000 acres of grassland, mostly on his northwest Nebraska ranch, and cost an estimated $42,000 in equipment wear and tear to put out.

While a department official said donations are not "judged" by the amount, a member of the rescue squad labeled the $500 "a joke" considering the size and difficulty of the fire.

"It's a slap in the face," said Jan Grover, an assistant chief of the local rescue squad, a entity separate from the Fire Department. "Considering who this is, it's just unrealistic."

Jerry Larson, a Fire Department spokesman, said that any donation is welcome, be it $2, $20 or $200.

"If we started judging donations, people will think, 'I can't give that much, so I won't give anything,'" Larson said. "It's the gift that counts, not the amount."

Russ Miller, who manages Turner's ranches from Bozeman, Mont., said he was not aware of the donation but didn't consider the dispute newsworthy.

Miller said he wanted to be a peacemaker. "At a time of hardship, it's better to band together than be divisive," he said.

The griping comes amid the worst season for wildfires in Nebraska in years. Several counties in northwest Nebraska have declared disasters in hope of obtaining federal or state assistance to defray firefighting costs. Federal officials also have been criticized for blocking volunteers from helping fight fires on public lands.

Turner is considered among the giants of charitable giving. His $1billion pledge to the United Nations in 1997 is considered the world's largest gift, and his Turner Foundation has made a habit of giving money to communities near his bison ranches in Nebraska, South Dakota, Montana and New Mexico.

The City of Gordon, for instance, recently received $25,000 for youth projects, which has prompted talk of starting a teen center.

Donations of money or food to volunteer fire departments and rescue squads are common following calls to ranches or residences. And Turner's $500 donation would be on the high end of gifts, though some feel a man of his means could have given more.

The cost of fighting wildfires in the Gordon area is expected to exceed $70,000 this year, and that does not include major repairs that will be necessary for vehicles, Larson said.

The most recent series of fires began Sept. 17, sparked by a dry thunderstorm that started dozens of fires across northern Nebraska and South Dakota. It took 38 hours to extinguish, Larson said.

The Gordon Journal reported that the routine equipment and fuel costs amounted to $42,394, which did not include the costs of the 11 neighboring volunteer fire departments that also responded.

Grover, who was on a rescue squad at the fire scene, said the blaze was a difficult one to fight because grasslands were overgrown on Turner's land and windmills had been shut off. That required a longer trip to obtain water for spray trucks.

She said that made it harder to stop the fire from spreading on other ranches - ranches that may not be able to take the financial loss of winter grazing ground as easily as Turner's.

Miller said he was unaware of the windmill situation, but he said that the policy of Turner Ranches is to aid firefighting efforts. He said 14,200 acres were burned on Turner's property.

©2000 Omaha World-Herald Company.
 
westex sewed a seed. If my organization qualified, the 60 grand would pay for a lot of posters, postage n people to promothe RKBA.

After all, responsible, Constitutional gun laws = no gun laws.

"Less government, more individual responsibility"....JBS

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Sam I am, grn egs n packin

Nikita Khrushchev predicted confidently in a speech in Bucharest, Rumania on June 19, 1962 that: " The United States will eventually fly the Communist Red Flag...the American people will hoist it themselves."
 
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