Westport, Connecticut RTM Greg Kraut Announces 'Not in Our Backyard' 17 Minute Stand in Southport, Connecticut

WESTPORT, Conn., March 20, 2018 (Newswire.com) - Greg Kraut, Westport, Connecticut’s RTM, recently released a letter announcing an event to stand firm against assault weapon violence. The event, which takes a stand against weapons used in recent massacres in Texas and Nevada, will be held on March 24, 2018 at 11:00 a.m.

The 17-minute stand will honor the Texas and Nevada victims as well as the 17 students and school faculty who were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Kraut will also have a letter available that attendees and others interested can sign, which will be sent to public investors of major assault weapon manufacturers urging a complete divestment of gun companies that continue to sell these assault weapons of mass destruction. The letter will express the signers’ feelings and urge these investors and businesses to stop doing business with the manufacturers.

“I urge both Republicans and Democrats to be courageous and do what is right to move our country and state forward,” says Kraut. “This is a nonviolent stand. We hope children and their parents will come together to join us to honor those children’s lives that have been lost to this weapon of mass destruction as well as to properly educate investors on the need for socially responsible investing.”

Kraut adds, “Such weapons account for a small percent of all gun deaths yearly in the U.S., but when they kill, they can kill dozens of people in seconds — as we know all too well from recent massacres in Texas, Nevada, and Florida. If a business can’t survive not selling assault weapons with adequate restrictions, then maybe they should have a better business strategy.”

Kraut notes what a major assault rifle manufacturer’s own co-founder, the late William Ruger Sr., told Tom Brokaw in 1992. Ruger said at the time, “No honest man needs more than 10 rounds in any gun. I never meant for simple civilians to have my 20- or 30-round mags or my folding stock.”

By 1994, with even President Ronald Reagan voicing support, the United States Congress banned high-capacity magazines as well as assault rifles. But a decade later, lawmakers let the ban expire amid pressure from the National Rifle Association. By then, the elder Ruger was deceased, and the Connecticut-based company resumed civilian sales of 30-round magazines. Since 2007, the company has sold more guns in the United States than any other manufacturer.

For more information about the event, please contact Greg Kraut at [email protected].

About Greg Kraut

Greg Kraut is a businessman who serves on the finance, employee compensation and planning and zoning committees of the Westport Representative Town Meeting, the legislative body of the town.

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