BOTH SIDES of the gun wars

Wisconsin Gun Dealer Who Sold To Virginia Tech and NIU Shooters Shows Why Gun Dealers Should Be More Regulated

A gun dealer in Green Bay Wisconsin who became infamous for selling items to both the Virginia Tech and NIU shooters is currently engaged in a reprehensible publicity stunt. For two weeks, he announced to the media, he will sell guns at “cost” to arm more people “to protect” themselves.

You can watch Eric Thompson engage in this “arm them all” promotion by clicking here. Also interviewed for Green Bay's FOX Ch. 11 story is Freedom States Alliance affiliate, Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort, and it's Executive Director Jeri Bonavia.

We can’t read into Thompson’s mind, but we do know a little about public relations, and Thompson is broadcasting his “offer” to the media, which, of course, drives people to his gun websites. This is what is called free media as compared to paying for advertising.

So the gun dealer who sold shooting items to two mass murderers on campuses is now offering to arm people to “protect” themselves from the type of people he profited from in the first place from his gun business.

As the head of security of the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay Campus, notes, Thompson is a “businessman.”

That he is indeed. He is in the business of selling guns to both sides of our nation’s gun wars.

There’s always a profit in that.

And publicity helps increase profit -- even if it's a deadly proposition.