Wall Street, Guns and Empathy

I'm  sitting at a restaurant close to Wall Street as the following conversation goes on in the next booth.

"What trades are you working now?"

"Since those California do-gooders made Cerberus unload their shares in the Freedom Group, the big gun manufacturer, I'm going in and buying as much as I can," said Stuie.

"How can you do that? You've got kids the age of the children who died?"

"The wife looks after the kids. How many times have I told you that empathy is the enemy of business. I'm a free market capitalist and that's a noble thing," he said.

"Isn't the lack of empathy what defined the killer?"

"Because you think about those things is why you'll never make more than $400,000 a year."