I notice that Freedom Group (the owner of multiple firearms brands) is closing Bushmaster and Thompson Center, citing profitability and economic concerns. Perhaps, though I have wondered ever since Freedom Group started buying companies whether they were "good guys" or not. Seems like one way to get gun control in place without having to go through legal channels would be to just buy up firearms manufacturers and then close them. No doubt I'm wrong. People with money never force their will, their personal goals on others through the use of that money, right?

Regardless of the motive, it's more people out of work and more manufacturing lost, but if I were an investor, why would I care if I could end up with more profit? Theoretically, that would let me buy more companies, get more profit, sell off assets - not hurting me a bit, I'd have the money. Strange thing is that while getting richer, becoming a "visionary thinker" and getting accolades for my business, all those regular, ordinary people who could once afford to buy the stuff I sell, they went away. They couldn't get jobs, couldn't pay for their homes, had to sell off all their stuff just to survive. As I live in the world of the rich, I don't know those people and have no reason to know them. I'm smarter than they are as all my money is proof of that.

Something is just incredibly wrong with those who think they lead but actually destroy others, for whatever motive, whether it be restricting the ability of the ordinary to fight back due to a lack of arms or lack of employment or lack of life. I'm afraid that is exactly what's happened in these United States. There was an article in some newspaper discussing how the ordinary and unseen are starting to fight back by just walking away from banks, debt, virtually everything. The minimalist movement might be a part of that as people learn that owning stuff doesn't make them happy. I personally know some of these people, many live right where I live now. You know, they don't have any "things" but sure do seem happy.

As usual, I wandered off from firearms makers and ended up at a larger idea, that of the pursuit of happiness. If happiness is just living life, I wonder what will happen to those rich visionaries when all they have is their money and it will no longer buy them anything since the unseen no longer care. And, I may well live long enough to see it happen. At least I can always make my own guns and ammunition. I can choose to just be nice and help others even when it's not monetarily profitable for me to do so. I'd rather be around the unseen but real people in these United States. That gains me friends who will help me (and have beyond anything I could have imagined). And if the guns go away due to whatever reason the corporations cite, then I'll be busy making guns for all my friends. I get to be employed by my friends, not some "master," and I don't follow any code of conduct, I'm just me. An old, tattooed biker who has friends. A good trade.