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The funny part about that billboard is that as far as a billboards go, it's a 110% failbus. Unless you're a pedestrian, or the traffic is stopped on the pike you'll never really even see the thing. I drove by it last Sunday night, and I knew what it was, but certainly couldn't read the thing or what the stupid counter said on it.
-Mike
Unfortunately the Brookline ave bridge over the pike is the main path for sox viewers between the train and Fenway. It is also a main path for anyone taking the b line from Allston going to Longwood area hospitals and schools. Thousands of people and their passengers also get suck in traffic on that spot every week.
Not to disprove you but it's almost as good a location as behind home plate.
I say we fund a billboard across the highway disproving that bullshit. Whose in? Crowd funding anyone?
I would love to see the NRA or someone else with deep pockets put up a sign showing the lies and inaccuracies with that billboard. Every time I see their billboard on the pike it annoys me, I suppose that is their point though.The fenway billboard gets me steamed every time. I work close by, so I see it often. Without even going into why the number shown is way bigger than it should be, almost none of those deaths are from assault weapons, it is just straight up lies.
I would love to see the NRA or someone else with deep pockets put up a sign showing the lies and inaccuracies with that billboard. Every time I see their billboard on the pike it annoys me, I suppose that is their point though.
I would love to see the NRA or someone else with deep pockets put up a sign showing the lies and inaccuracies with that billboard. Every time I see their billboard on the pike it annoys me, I suppose that is their point though.
WGS has like 10 guns on hand I have been there 2 times and the 1st the guy was just a asshat. I chalked that up to maybe a bad day or something. 2nd time in same inventory and he was again a total jerk. That was at least 5 years ago. Have never been back.
He offers NRA classes which consist of sticking people in a room and them watching a 3 hour video. Sign and pay.
I actually had a couple contact me about my course and asked me a lot of questions about was there hands on and such. I said of course...They came and enjoyed my class and told me about the experience at WGS and how neither felt even remotely able to handle a gun safely after it.
I drive by there 2 or 3 times a week and never see a car in parking lot.
Joe Nocera is a rabid anti gunner on the New York Times Editorial Board
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/04/opinion/joe-nocera-guns-and-public-health.html?ref=opinion
Guns and Public Health
Mike Weisser is my favorite gun dealer. The longtime proprietor of the Ware Gun Shop in Ware, Mass., Weisser, 70, estimates he has sold more than 40,000 guns in his career as a wholesaler and retailer. He also has a nice little business teaching a gun-safety course that Massachusetts requires of all new gun owners.......
...There’s something else about Weisser: He strongly believes that the country needs a new approach to guns and gun violence — an approach that is more data-driven, less hyperbolic, and that emphasizes the public health aspect of gun violence. Using the pen name Mike the Gun Guy,.....
....Of all the things Weisser advocates, the issue he is most passionate about is the need for doctors to become part of the debate over gun safety......
...I asked Weisser how his business has been. He told me that he stopped selling guns at retail earlier this year. He was too busy with the conference. It could be the beginning of something big.....end
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Great, now he is going on the lecture circuit.
ware gun shop has been closed for several months.....at least 6. from what I heard the feds shut him down over his book keeping. something about missing guns or paperwork on said guns. hopefully that douche is gone forever.
bob
He is still at it with an amazing amount of lies:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-weisser/gun-safety_b_6969440.html
It looks like he still has the training business and does a lot on Groupon. From what I have seen Groupon customers value cheap above everything else.
He is still at it with an amazing amount of lies:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-weisser/gun-safety_b_6969440.html
It looks like he still has the training business and does a lot on Groupon. From what I have seen Groupon customers value cheap above everything else.
I'm encouraged by the comments to the article though. To get flamed as hard as he did on the Huffpost site takes alot of work!
It looks like he still has the training business and does a lot on Groupon. From what I have seen Groupon customers value cheap above everything else.
I posted a comment asking about the rumor of ATF pulling his license.
It got pulled. That was fast.
I'm encouraged by the comments to the article though. To get flamed as hard as he did on the Huffpost site takes alot of work!
The problem is that HuffPuffPass sees those comments and thinks "wow he really has a lot of people engaged by his artcles". Then they look at the traffic they generate and keep him on. I would feel better if he were completely ignored and nobody read those insulting blogs.