February 28, 2018 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
If you are in desperate need of a tent or a water bottle or a gadget chair or a trendy fashion accessory or whatnot, please go to Dick’s Sorting Goods or order online to thank them for getting some damn good sense.
As of yesterday, they will no longer sell assault weapons and today they issued this. (Click here to see the big one.)
Maybe, just maybe, the tide is turning.
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Maybe thanking them is premature. They did the same thing (for
less than a year) after Sandy Hook.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/dicks-sporting-goods-stopped-selling-assault-weapons-started-selling-less-year-later/
1While we’re at it, how about proficiency tests and insurance coverage for those users??
2Hey, I didn’t say to buy a YETI cooler from them or anything. I listed items under $20 (okay, except for the Astros jersey) to let them know there are a lot of us who approve. If they change their mind, we go stand in front of the store with whatever we bought and holler that we want our money back.
3I am so happy that a company has developed a social conscience. Lets hope this time it will last. I have been busy changing companies that use FED EX to those who ship UPS or USPS. Chewy I will miss you, but there is PETCO now ( use UPS for foods). I do not want to part of any company that supports NRA ( really i would like a 19-26 % discount on shipping too). #boycott
4Their self-imposed ban should stick this time. Stocks for Dick’s Sporting Goods are going up, while those of gun manufacturers are taking a dive. While the public may have a collective short memory, this time really is different. The young adults are energized and ready to kick us where we need kicking to assist us should we suffer memory lapses. Public opinion has also shifted with over 70% wanting change, while Donnie continues to pander to his dwindling base of less than 30%. Hey snacilbupeR, how has that strategy and those numbers been working for you in down ballot races?
Remember when marriage equality was not happening? Then we woke up one morning and it was here. Like that.
5I called the corporate office, called my local store, and ‘chatted’ online to tell them how delighted I was. I also ordered an item online and plan to go by my local store after work just to cross any protest line that may be there.
6*Breaking News* Report of shots fired at Georgia school. Few details except teacher barricaded in closet was arrested. Hey Donnie, tell us again about your ‘genius’ plan to arm teachers.
7Went in to the store this am and thanked them. The AM said I had not been the first to thank them for the change!
Change is coming!
8Now if only we could dump Trump……… And Pence too!!!
Went to Dick’s this morning in the rain and bought my grandson a new basketball to go with the other 5 – 8 he has. Told the manager this was my first time to purchase an item in the store and why, filled out the survey at the website listed on the receipt and then called the corporate office customer support line and thanked the CEO for his action. Have I missed anything? BTW the corporate customer support number is 724-273-3400 then #9.
9Please remember that these are corporations. Artificial constructs who’se only purpose for existence is to maximise financial returns any way possible. The officers of any corporation have a fiduaciary duty to pursue any course that maximises profit irrelevent of personal views.
10That said the nra should be getting nervous since a number of corporations are doing their numbers and realizing the upside of moving away from the nra exceeds any downside.
Must continue pressure. If unwatched these corporations will return to sweep up the crumbs that they get from the nra.
So, as others have noted about dicks flip flop after Sandy Hook, that they have no shame and if the pressure to dump the nra falters they will return to the murders fold and reintroduce benefits to separate ammosexuals from their money.
After all remember money is all that matters. Money is the very reason for a corporations existence.
We have shopped Dick’s before and it was worth it even then (shoes).
Hopefully, Fed Ex can learn from Dick’s good example and drop the NRA discount. They had some blathering explanation as to why they are not dropping the discount for NRA customers but it made no sense at all. They are not in favor of any sort of assault type rifles but they are damned if they will give up the business of shipping them to and fro for NRA customers. I am a bit stymied by their thinking. Fed Ex is always asking me at their counter whether my package contains, you guessed it, anything explosive or could ever have anything explosive about it and if so they will not ship. Well, rifles may not be shipped loaded but as we have discovered there is nothing so dangerous as an “unloaded” weapon. Further, in my environs weapons like this cannot be shipped from a private home to a private home. They have to be shipped to a licensed dealer who will then notify the recipient who will come and get it. Frankly, with the volume of business Fed Ex gets on everything else they ship, they freaking don’t need the $$ that would result from shipping weaponry. What they really should do is use their deep pockets to fund Douglas High School with bullet proof glass, bulletproof doors, top of the line door locks, etc. The local school system is crying poor mouth which just doesn’t work in this situation and no real protection is being added to the campus. And yes, the building where it all happened is scheduled to be demolished and a new one built but that still means the rest of the buildings on campus have to suck the hind tit when it comes to security. The local elementary school just down the street from me is is so secure you could bank gold in the basement and no one would ever get near it.
11In the long run it would be cheaper to ban civil ownership of semi-automatic rifles than to pay to harden vulnerable sites, like schools, churches, hospitals, concert venues, etc, and likely would be more effective.
I can’t imagine how a hardened school would work, especially an elementary school. I had lunch this past Monday with my oldest son, who teaches math in an elementary school. The east west halls are covered by glass at both ends. The halls are wide enough to drive my pickup down. All the classrooms have several 6 foot tall windows. Without building a walled, covered superstructure around the extant buildings there is no way to even minimally secure the campus, beyond what they have already done. Remember the door at Sandy Hook was metal clad with chicken wire embedded glass. The shooter fired a few rounds around the lock and the door surrendered. I wouldn’t have wanted my kids to have attended a “secure” school building. And I wouldn’t attend worship service in a “secure” church building. Secure buildings are aggravating to use.
12maggie,
About 15-25 years ago (and before then too) I would sometimes have lunch with my kids at their school cafeterias.
For a time (4-5 years) they attended an elementary school in the top district in the area/state, surrounded by ‘the city’ (the per capita income $ and list of the resident area mover-shakers was huge there).
I sometimes worked at an office just a block away from their school, so I’d walk or drive over there, park in front of the school, walk in the door nearest the cafeteria entrance, spot the girls and get in line with them (should have brought earplugs, the din from lines of 1-6th graders is deafening). We’d get our food (pretty tasty, and cheap), sit down and eat, then I’d go back to work and they to class.
Never had any sort of entrance requirement, challenge, or anything, just walk in off the street (I might have gone to the office the first time to introduce myself and find out where things were).
Same thing at their final, rural district, no problem (you were supposed to check in at the HS office first).
Nowadays it must be absolutely insane in the schools, with checkpoints, lockdowns, armed police (I guess all TX ISD’s now have their own friggin police forces), metal detectors, searches, fear, paranoia. It’s pure lunacy.
In my day (ca. 1953 on), 12 years in the same building, I think that the nuns would have stared down any whackjob; and if that didn’t work, beat him into submission with a pointer and a bookend. Of course I don’t remember there being hardly any whackjobs around.
— maggie says: “The local elementary school just down the street from me is is so secure you could bank gold in the basement and no one would ever get near it.”
13Sandridge, My area is dominated by one of the biggest military reservations in the country. Half the kids in the elementary school and on up through high school are the surplus from the population that attends school on base. They are used to strict procedures etc. and would expect them, yea, verily, demand them! So would the parents. The county constabulary is noted for their strictness as well. There are also a packet of historical sites in my zip code alone plus all the others going upriver to the Woodrow Wilson bridge. That should give you some idea of the culture around here when it comes to security. No it is not Utopia. Crime of all grades still is committed but not on school property.
14K– It’s true that corporations do what’s best for the bottom line, but I think they might be helped if we could see a few lawsuits for gun sellers like those for bartenders who sell to drunks.
Maggie–If the FedEx discount for NRA members I’d like most, it applies to *all* shipping, not just firearms. Still, if enough of us opt for other carriers ( and, for example, let Chewy know we’re leaving because of their choice of shoppers), they might reconsider.
15Djw
” I think they might be helped if we could see a few lawsuits for gun sellers like those for bartenders who sell to drunks.”
I agree except I believe they have immunity bestowed upon them by the best congress and pres. they could buy in 2005 when they passed Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) in reaction to cities, such as Chicago, filing suit against Gun manufacturers. The possibility is theoretically still open but the bar has been raised so high one would need a legal trampoline to clear it.
16In protest to Dick’s move, the NRA has asked that members now buy their sportswear from Nordstrum Rack.
17The jerks who will boycott Dicks and it’s subsidiary Field and Stream are the same little poots that probably back bakeries who won’t bake gay wedding cakes.
AlanInAustin – I have never seen the Dicks type of sportswear at Nordstrom.
18Planning to buy a little open tent for sun protection on the beach. Will be heading to Dick’s to pick it up. Their CEO, he’s got some class.
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