Corporate America cutting ties with NRA

[JTsyo]

Mainly it means they are removing the discounts NRA members get.

The NRA seems to have morphed from a institution that promoted safe gun ownership into a political one that tries to drive up gun sales. It's going to be tricky to balance public safety with the 2nd Amendment since you don't know who will be a responsible owner and who won't.

 

[feralkid]

And it begins...at long last.

 

[dainthomas]

The free market at work.

 

[Starbuck1975]

Good, and so it begins

 

[Puffnstuff]

I want to see ammo companies raise their prices like 1000%.

 

[Commodus]

I want to see ammo companies raise their prices like 1000%.

If I remember correctly, Chris Rock had a great bit on this. You want guns? Sure, we'll make it easy to buy them... but we'll charge $5,000 a bullet. If you hear some shots, you'll think "damn, they must've really wanted someone dead."

 

[Puffnstuff]

If I remember correctly, Chris Rock had a great bit on this. You want guns? Sure, we'll make it easy to buy them... but we'll charge $5,000 a bullet. If you hear some shots, you'll think "damn, they must've really wanted someone dead."

Congress should pass an ammunition tax just like they did with gas guzzlers except the cost should pose a glass ceiling to the average joe six pack angry white man living in a trailer park hating the world.

 

[paperfist]

Congress should pass an ammunition tax just like they did with gas guzzlers except the cost should pose a glass ceiling to the average joe six pack angry white man living in a trailer park hating the world.

Those are the ones that actually hunt.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Those are the ones that actually hunt.

Sounds like its muzzle loader time again. Time to roll things back to lever action rifles.

 

[paperfist]

Sounds like its muzzle loader time again. Time to roll things back to lever action rifles.

Yeah then no one would have guns cause they'd all blow themselves up.

If you think about it though there's a lot of guns in the US and they've been here well since the beginning. It's almost incredible that there aren't more mass shootings. I don't endorse mass shootings mind you but for some reason that just stick in my head.

Imagine if mass shootings targeted lawyers, politicians or the media (maybe salesmen) then guns would have a completely positive spin on them.

 

[Commodus]

I want to see all organizations everywhere sever ties with the NRA. It's no longer a representative organization, or even the corrupt corporate lobbyist group it has been for a while; it's a fundamentally evil group that cheers on mass murder for the sake of profit.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Speaking of the NRA did you guys see where they gave Ajit Pai a gun for repealing net neutrality?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/24/nra_gives_ajit_pai_a_gun/

 

[WelshBloke]

Imagine if mass shootings targeted lawyers, politicians or the media...

They'd be banned pdq in that situation!

 

[UNCjigga]

Speaking of the NRA did you guys see where they gave Ajit Pai a gun for repealing net neutrality?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/24/nra_gives_ajit_pai_a_gun/

Wait...WHAT??

What does repealing net neutrality have to do with 2A?

 

[Pens1566]

Speaking of the NRA did you guys see where they gave Ajit Pai a gun for repealing net neutrality?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/24/nra_gives_ajit_pai_a_gun/

Which is a federal ethics violation btw.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Remember when corporate America bailed on a Rush 6 years ago for calling a college student a slut for advocating for birth control? Man that sure was the end of him wants to it?

Don’t hold your breath here.

 

[Commodus]

Remember when corporate America bailed on a Rush 6 years ago for calling a college student a slut for advocating for birth control? Man that sure was the end of him wants to it?

Don’t hold your breath here.

I'm definitely not seeing this as a deep blow that will ruin the organization. However, it's a good principled stand, and hopefully enough organizations will eventually withdraw support that the NRA is severely weakened.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Wait...WHAT??

What does repealing net neutrality have to do with 2A?

Guns, guns, everywhere a gun
watch the NRA give them to a son
Do this don't do that can't you see my guuuuuun?

This is why your elected officials will not do much to the NRA! When Rubio comes up for reelection I'll write in Snoopy on a dog house before I'll vote for him. Last time he was the only candidate on the ballot and I surely hope that the D's will field someone against him.

Which is a federal ethics violation btw.

Ethics, Trump don't need no stinkin' ethics! This is why the Republicans disbanded the independent ethics oversight office first thing after taking the reins. These are the swamp monsters that neither Trump nor Congress want you to look at.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/...vote-to-hobble-independent-ethics-office.html

 

[Paratus]

Speaking of the NRA did you guys see where they gave Ajit Pai a gun for repealing net neutrality?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/24/nra_gives_ajit_pai_a_gun/

I linked that in the net neutrality thread.

Did you notice the Award was a long gun and they didn’t have it on stage because guns aren’t allowed at CPAC.

Wait...WHAT??

What does repealing net neutrality have to do with 2A?

He got it for saving the Internet.

The National Rifle Association (NRA) today gave its Charlton Heston Courage Under Fire Award to Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.
After Schneider spoke, Meadows told Pai that "the Charlton Heston Courage Under Fire award is sponsored by the National Rifle Association" in honor of the former NRA president, and it's not given every year. It is only awarded "when someone has stood up under pressure with grace and dignity and principled discipline," she said...

Previous awardees included Rush Limbaugh, Phyllis Schlafly, Vice President Mike Pence, Roy Innis, and Sheriff David Clarke, she said....

"We are honored to have you as part of this distinguished pantheon," Meadows told Pai.
The actual award is a "Kentucky handmade long gun," Meadows said. "We cannot bring it on stage," she said, noting that it would be housed in the NRA's museum along with a plaque honoring Pai. "When you can receive it, we'll give it to you," she said.

 

[K1052]

Seems more companies are following suit. Delta pulled out of their agreement to provide discounted travel to NRA members this morning.

 

[Commodus]

Seems more companies are following suit. Delta pulled out of their agreement to provide discounted travel to NRA members this morning.

At this point, the few companies left on the discount list are likely pulling out in part because they're isolated -- I can't imagine wanting to look tone deaf.

Now, if we could somehow disrupt the gun industry's funding...

 

[K1052]

At this point, the few companies left on the discount list are likely pulling out in part because they're isolated -- I can't imagine wanting to look tone deaf.

Now, if we could somehow disrupt the gun industry's funding...

That push has already started too. Will be curious to see where it ends up.

 

[soundforbjt]

Delta and United are added to the list..

 

[Linux23]

this is a good start

 

[theeedude]

Money talks, and money is shifting to educated liberals.