Polymer80 may survive the court battle but not their own reputation....

Bongo Lewi said:
Well said. hvymax appears to have bailed out of PGB. Gone with the wind.
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Heuristics said:
Late to the party but your argument does not make sense. Gun violence among youth is not a result of easy access to making "👻guns..." It is an issue of failure in parenting and proper guidance. I grew up in an extremely nasty part of Florida where gunshots were commonplace. This was long before you had young kids taking their parent's debit/credit cards and ordering online (again the only problem, is a parent's failure to prevent accessing their credit/debit cards. Not being involved enough to see warning signs... Or failure in teaching their children that violence isn't justified outside of cases of self-defense...) 80% builds... If someone is going to harm someone they will always find a way... Hence why if you look at the UK, their gangs use machetes and knives... Violence is like water, it always finds a way unless it's thoroughly thought out in how to channel it's flow and requires monitoring... Increases in violence among youth are not an issue of weapons being more accessible, it's an issue of parents/guardians failing to be what their title states and a degradation of society's morals and ethics... I can say firsthand that former friends I had never bought 80%s and built them... They got theirs through theft, uncaring foolish storage or even worse uneducated gun owners who wanted a quick buck instead of realizing they were contributing to the problem. If teenagers can find someone to buy them a case of beer or a pack of smokes, you can surely bet they can find someone to buy them other things. The comparison might seem drastic but it really isn't.. People need to self reflect a lot more. 80%s are not synonymous with violence.. Contributing them to be so does nothing but spout ignorance. Compare your repetitive news articles with how many gang-members or active shooters came from troubled homes and lets see who wins... To answer your question after my long rant though... Better parenting, more involvement in your child's life and the lives of the children in your community. Making sure the younger generations know that violence isn't the answer will do a lot more in reducing the raise in crimes than banning things will. Drugs have been outlawed in the US for YEARS, yet drug usage is still on the rise?... Banning things does nothing but create a black market for those things. Pretty sure most recovered addicts would tell you that support and involvement in their life by friends/family did more than the fact a substance was made illegal ever did...
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This degradation in morals, I believe, began after prayer was taken out of schools, somewhere around 1962 (??). It gained traction during the late ‘60’s when drug use became more popular. Graphic violence and sex became more prevalent in the entertainment industry and later on in video games. The idea of a two parent (heterosexual) family faded into the “modern” family of today. I’m a boomer and this is how I see things today. I used to be more liberal and even voted democrat once,…once. I agree that firearms are not the real problem, it never was when I was young. So what I truly believe it comes down to is that you take God out of the equation this is what you get.
 
Up here we have a friend who’s a school district retiree and who’s daughter was a PE teacher. It’s become so bad in the school district that the kids are arrogant, violent and taunt the teachers, knowing full well they will get away with anything, and do. One kid bashed another kid’s face in with a hydro flask. Laughed about it…this PE teacher was so stressed-out and just retired early via medical reasons because of it all. And she was an exceptionally well-recognized, well-respected teacher. She’s done as of a week ago.
 
I saw this thread come up and pondered the title. In the end, Polymer80 survived neither. And that's really sad and unfortunate. The leading company in this specific industry is gone.
 
Racer88 said:
I saw this thread come up and pondered the title. In the end, Polymer80 survived neither. And that's really sad and unfortunate. The leading company in this specific industry is gone.
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Unfortunate, but companies that don't keep their eye on the ball (i.e., watch for changes in their industry) and "fail to plan" for their future, "plan to fail," especially when government gets involved! For example, remember Eastman Kodak? Although it wasn't government intervention in their case, but they were once THE giant in the photography industry:
petapixel.com

A Brief History of Kodak: The Rise and Fall of a Camera Giant

Kodak was once the 800-pound gorilla in the world of photography. But after a century of dominance, Kodak's business crumbled and it was forced to declare
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BeerHunter said:
Unfortunate, but companies that don't keep their eye on the ball (i.e., watch for changes in their industry) and "fail to plan" for their future, "plan to fail," especially when government gets involved! For example, remember Eastman Kodak? Although it wasn't government intervention in their case, but they were once THE giant in the photography industry:
petapixel.com

A Brief History of Kodak: The Rise and Fall of a Camera Giant

Kodak was once the 800-pound gorilla in the world of photography. But after a century of dominance, Kodak's business crumbled and it was forced to declare
petapixel.com petapixel.com
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What's even more ironic is Kodak developed the first digital camera.

The future is promised to no one.
 

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