Author Topic: Dick's Sporting Goods CEO on decision to no longer sell assault-style rifles: 'We don’t want to be a  (Read 21950 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Smokin Joe

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 60,874
  • I was a "conspiracy theorist". Now I'm just right.
Even though Dick's advertises themselves as sellers of Sporting Goods and guns, they shouldn't be forced to sell things they find morally repugnant.  "How can one disagree with that?"
Precisely.


They are perfectly free to be Dick's. :shrug:
How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis

Offline INVAR

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 11,961
  • Gender: Male
  • Dread To Tread
    • Sword At The Ready
I'm bummed. I've been beating this drum the whole thread, but he only answered at #168.  I must be on Ignore gain....it's just as well...
He's tooling with us.  He's just here to spout his Leftist claptrap and try to convince us all on this board that we are a bunch of selfish, extreme bigots who do not understand 'true' Conservatism because our closed minds will not allow his wisdom that he lectures to us ad nauseum to permeate and be accepted.  Even though he promotes the entire Leftist agenda from gays and guns to abortion and amnesty, and goes to great lengths to explain it all to us.
Fart for freedom, fart for liberty and fart proudly.  - Benjamin Franklin

...Obsta principiis—Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers and destroyers press upon them so fast that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon [the] American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour." - John Adams, February 6, 1775

Online Cyber Liberty

  • Coffee! Donuts! Kittens!
  • Administrator
  • ******
  • Posts: 82,040
  • Gender: Male
  • 🌵🌵🌵
He's tooling with us.  He's just here to spout his Leftist claptrap and try to convince us all on this board that we are a bunch of selfish, extreme bigots who do not understand 'true' Conservatism because our closed minds will not allow his wisdom that he lectures to us ad nauseum to permeate and be accepted.  Even though he promotes the entire Leftist agenda from gays and guns to abortion and amnesty, and goes to great lengths to explain it all to us.

He does love to lecture, doesn't he?  It's like having our own, personal Obama.
For unvaccinated, we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death — if you’re unvaccinated — for themselves, their families, and the hospitals they’ll soon overwhelm. Sloe Joe Biteme 12/16
I will NOT comply.
 
Castillo del Cyber Autonomous Zone ~~~~~>                          :dontfeed:

Offline edpc

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 14,879
  • Gender: Male
  • Professional Misanthrope - Briefer and Boxer
Dick’s Sporting Goods, Kroger, Walmart, and now L.L. Bean are among the companies raising the minimum age to purchase a gun and or limiting what weapons they stock.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/consumers-buycotting-stores-like-dicks-aftermath-parkland-shooting-195019792.html#comments

Kroger???
I disagree.  Circle gets the square.

Offline txradioguy

  • Propaganda NCOIC
  • Cat Mod
  • *****
  • Posts: 23,534
  • Gender: Male
  • Rule #39
Dick’s Sporting Goods, Kroger, Walmart, and now L.L. Bean are among the companies raising the minimum age to purchase a gun and or limiting what weapons they stock.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/consumers-buycotting-stores-like-dicks-aftermath-parkland-shooting-195019792.html#comments

Kroger???

That was my thought too. None of the Kroger's here sell firearms or ammo.
The libs/dems of today are the Quislings of former years. The cowards who would vote a fraud into office in exchange for handouts from the devil.

Here lies in honored glory an American soldier, known but to God

THE ESTABLISHMENT IS THE PROBLEM...NOT THE SOLUTION

Republicans Don't Need A Back Bench...They Need a BACKBONE!

Offline thackney

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12,267
  • Gender: Male
Kroger owns Fred Meyer.  Many of their stores are more like a Wal-Mart selling far more than food.  We used them when we lived in Alaska.

Kroger sells guns at 43 of its 133 Fred Meyer locations in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/business/kroger-firearms-fred-meyer.html
Life is fragile, handle with prayer

Online Cyber Liberty

  • Coffee! Donuts! Kittens!
  • Administrator
  • ******
  • Posts: 82,040
  • Gender: Male
  • 🌵🌵🌵
Kroger came under a lot of pressure a few years ago to stop letting their customers carry in their stores, they refused to cave in, and I'm grateful for that.  Out here Kroger's is "Fry's," and my wife carries all the time when she shops there.  Walmart is cool with carrying too.  Both stores are OK with concealed and open carry.

I had no idea Kroger has stores that sell rifles. :shrug:
For unvaccinated, we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death — if you’re unvaccinated — for themselves, their families, and the hospitals they’ll soon overwhelm. Sloe Joe Biteme 12/16
I will NOT comply.
 
Castillo del Cyber Autonomous Zone ~~~~~>                          :dontfeed:

Offline mountaineer

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 83,699
Never went to a Fred Meyers until we visited Portland,  Oregon.  They have everything from groceries to furniture.  Never noticed whether that store also sold guns, though (unlikely in the socialist paradise of Portland).