Wall Street Bails On Guns

Investors Target Gun Stocks as Instant Background Checks Drop - TheStreet:

U.S. gun stocks came under fire on Monday after the latest National Instant Criminal Background Check System data from the for handgun background checks showed that almost 400,000 fewer checks run in April than in March. 

The "Market" likes a stock when it seems volatile; it doesn't like a stock that seems humdrum.

What's good for America isn't always good for Wall Street.

Fewer NICS check indicate a declining market to stock brokers;

Fewer background checks = fewer sales = falling market.

"Call my broker!  SELL S&W" they cry

The investors are looking at the numbers, and ignoring the culture.  Guns aren't Pork Shares.

The BULLS love it, because that means they can buy stocks while the price is low, and then sell high when the crisis is over

The BEARS love it, because they can buy futures while the price is low and then sell high when the crisis is over.

Oh!

Or is it the other way around?

I admit, I don't understand The Stock Market.   But it's either one or the other.

Or ... possibly ... both.

All we can be sure of is that there are people who will make a profit based on a product which may or may not be more highly regulated in the future.

Or ... not.

All we can say is, there's a profit to be made based on the future/conjectural decisions by the President, and whether NICS determines that more people are buying guns ... or less.

Some days, it's more fun to be An American than other days.

This is one of those 'other days'.  But I doubt that S&W is going to go out of business this week.

I hate elections

No, really.    In my whole life, I can't think of one national candidate that I voted for, who won.

With one exception.

Trying to break this horrible jinx, I tried to outfox it one year by voting for the candidate I most definitely did NOT want to win.

That's how Bill Clinton got elected President.

This year, I have the election returns playing on the radio in the Front Room.

I'm upstairs in the Hell Room (you know, the cluttered room with the desktop computer in it) where I can hear enough to know they're still talking about politics, but I can't make out what they say.

(Helpful Hint:  I've discovered that playing music helps.  I recommend Rolling Stones' "Hot Rocks" album: "I Can't Get No Satisfaction!")

Apparently, though, I'm not the only one who is mad as hell and just can't take it anymore:

How to Relieve Your Election Night Anxiety - Bloomberg View:

So it’s about to be over. Congratulations to all of us for surviving a truly terrible presidential campaign. Some of the terribleness was on the stump, but a lot it was generated by the all-politics-all-the-time news media and social networks. If, like many of us, you’re worn out by the whole thing, I would propose an innovative response: Don’t watch the election returns come in. Spend tonight doing something more useful.

Best idea I've heard all day!

Except for this one:

(display borrowed from gunowners.org)

None Of The Above

I'm so SICK that there are no dominant political parties in America who have been able to field a candidate which doesn't make me want to hurl.

Can't we just vote for "None of the Above" and, as in video games and computers, just ...
REBOOT?