145 CEOs (With Private Security) Want Gun Control (For You)
Ugh, Bertram, can you believe The Poors think they have a right to self-defense?
Yesterday, 145 CEOs of some of America’s largest corporations sent a joint letter to Congress demanding more of what the anti-gunners have always insisted they want: “commonsense gun laws [SIC].” Those of us who have been watching gun-rights news for longer than a couple of years can verify that, generally, when gun-grabbers insist that all they want is “common sense gun laws,” what it is they’re really referring to. It’s always the same stale list of laws that are either nonsensical, loaded with unintended consequences, or have been tried before and proven to show absolutely zero effect on America’s crime rate. Furthermore, they don’t expect those laws to ever apply to them…and this time is no different.
Let’s start with the CEOs in question: Who are they, and what do they think they’re going to gain from this? The letter can be read here (although you’ll have to give the New York Times a click to do so). Many of the names will come as no surprise; naturally, Dick’s inserted themselves into the discussion without buying dinner first. There’s also Levi’s, a flotilla of Bloomberg-owned news sources, Twitter, and others that we already knew about.
There were, however, some very interesting signatories courtesy of our “gig economy,” like Uber and AirBnB. At first, the Uber one had me scratching my head, but then I remembered that the company has been embroiled in a number of sexual-harassment scandals at the corporate level. It’s possible that they’re hoping that virtue-signaling this particular lefty cause celebre they’ll get the public to forget that harassment thing…and maybe all of those rapes committed by Uber drivers against their passengers. (Or maybe they’re just worried that some female passengers might carry concealed, thus depriving them of a driver?)
Then there’s the actual contents of the letter, which isn’t quite as interesting–it’s the same demand for “expanded background checks” and “red flag laws” that we keep hearing about every time there’s a mass shooting. Naturally, they aren’t the slightest bit interested in exploring what either of those demands actually mean. That, for example, a person could be charged with a felony for loaning a gun to a family member. That, for example, “red flag laws” sound terrific in the abstract, but that we have yet to see one that respects our Constitutionally protected right to due process.
Part of the reason why those 145 CEOs couldn’t care less about the knock-on effects of their proposal is that they have every reason to believe that they’ll never feel those consequences themselves. No background check law will ever prevent a wealthy person from inheriting the family set of matched Purdey shotguns. And CEOs can delegate their personal protection the same way they can delegate their household chores; they’ll simply hire someone else to carry the gun for them. No “red flag” law will ever remove a single firearm from a single wealthy person, and that’s a promise–poor people are crazy, but rich people are merely “eccentric.”
All right, that last sentence is an old joke, but it definitely has its grains of truth…and that’s why pro-Second Amendment people are very leery of these laws. Financial success really can cover for a great deal of odd behavior. What’s more, we have yet to see anything like a working definition of what the “red flag” will be. There are already lots of very loud voices on the anti-gun side insisting that being pro-gun is proof in and of itself of insanity. Here, have a look (if you don’t mind giving Mother Jones a click). What will qualify as a “red flag”? Believing that Area 51 contains actual extraterrestrials? Clicking “like” on a Facebook article about chemtrails? The potential for abuse is huge, and the people who will bear the brunt of that abuse are those among us who don’t have thousands to defend our rights in court…if we get a day in court at all.
Any time you hear of a corporation demanding legislation that has nothing to do with their business, and won’t ever affect it, you should be suspicious. And when that corporation is demanding that you be disarmed, you should see that as a red flag. In fact, you should see it as 145 red flags, waving around like a Beijing parade, saying “We’d Like to Tread On You.”
Great sweepstakes
NO change will ever happen until the U.S. Congress orders the mental health industry to report those that are termed so mentally imbalanced so as to be a true threat to the community. Before any ones rights are suspended they will have a hearing in front of a Corporate Counsel or whom ever reviews mental commitments. Also make thew mental health industry financially liable for death and damage committed by the imbalanced individual!!!
145 CEO. Kiss my ass
These are the same 1%ers the Demwits are attacking. They are attacking themselves.
Reminds me of the cartoon “Lil Abner” What is good for General Bullmoose is good for the USA.
As far back as history has recorded the rich have been telling us how we should live our lives. After all it is they’re god given right, to tell us lower beings how to live are lives.
These CEO are thumb sucking pussys in my book,. May God condemn them.
These CEOs do not have their own best interests in mind, when they promote the murders of their best customers!
How many of these have major stockholders among the core group composing the hidden government behind all this insanity, follow the money.
Take guns from millionaires, senators, congressmen and bodyguards, the don’t want law abiding honest citizens to have guns for protection against gangs ,thieves murders criminals ,they need not have protection neither! Guns dont murder people.it takes someone without respect for God and life,they will find other ways to kill!
boycott these companies– remember Dick’s
Lawyers making fellow lawyers richer. Only “Common Sense” gun law is 2nd Amendment.
I would boycott these companies but have never heard of these … SO THEIR OPINION
DOESN’T MATTER TO ME empty vessels make the most noise
As State Chairman of a large Veterans organization I want every gun Owner to draft a letter to Congress with thousands of signatures to nullify
The CEO, s letter. It’s about time we put a stop to the gun grabbers nonsense.
Lets get back at them. Have NRA, GOA, and all of us start an active boycott of these companies. Put out op-ed pages in the newspapers that these companies support unconstitutional issues. If you are a stock holder in these companies, start a write in campaign and have it taken to the board of directors to de-politicize the boardrooms, and that if CEOs consistently do this, they will face motions to remove, or remove benefits and payouts via stock options and other executive pay. Hit the overprivileged leftwing where it hurts them most… the wallet
I viewed the lists and discovered I knowingly do business with only 4 of these companies, so eliminating those from my activities should be fairly simple. I wonder just how many of these companies “signed on” for the purposes of advertising their position as social justice warriors, hoping to ingratiate themselves with customers of like-mind and manipulating potential clientele.
The “red flag laws’ are of primary concern as it is the government’s attempt to forecast a person’s behavior.
I might agree that informing authorities of unusual or aberrant behavior could be justly founded and potentially prevent a tragedy but the law must provide the person accused with due process as guaranteed by the Constitution. Merely filing a complaint should not result in firearms’ confiscation without an opportunity to present the view of the accused. This “we have to do something” attitude is a knee-jerk response and is extremely dangerous to all.
Guess CEOs want shooters in stores then OK vs trained citizens with CCW.
How many more customers or employees have to DIE CEOs until U wake up.
Arm the shopper & one less shooter in store.
Amazing to think that fea of an inanimate object will bring about the demise of this country
You should see my 17 year old daughter when she sees a spider.
Are the spiders ARMED. Trick question.
Yes, I see how common sense gun laws work for the gangs in Chicago. Plenty of killing going on with common sense gun laws. We have illegal criminals crossing our border everyday. How do we protect ourselves,with common sense. How about the Boston bombers, call blomberg.
Once again the elitists, with layers of armed security at home in their condos or at work are trying to tell Americans what’s best for us – – – not them.
I haven’t used UBER and now I won’t sail on Royal Caribbean I long ago wrote Dick’s sporting goods off my list of merchants with which I do business with.
As an American citizen, I’m sick and tired of these elitists telling me what’s good for me. Let them all go and hide behind their walled compounds and condos with their armed security but leave average Americans alone..
Just in case you missed other articles and public positions, here are some I had previously compiled. A couple are on the “letter” also. This new 145 companies list is a help, although most I’ve either never heard of (yet) or are businesses I’d never have reason to do business with anyway. Anyway 14 of them are new to my list, so thanks. Will pass on.
Enterprise
Budget Rentacar
Alamo
NationalPro
FNB Omaha
Symantec
LifeLock
SimpliSafe
MetLife
Chubb
Hertz
Avis
Allied Van Lines
North American Van Lines
TrueCar
Delta Airlines
United Airlines
Wynhdham Hotels
Nike
Dick’s Sporting Goods
To hell with all of them!!!!
Ironic that LifeLock is on that list since they have a partner program with the NRA for identity theft protection. Biting the hand that feeds them.
LifeLock dropped the NRA last year.
Thanks for the update. We have already started boycotting Nike due to its stance on sanctuary state statice and the Colin Kaepernick employment deal with that looser.
Levi’s and Hallmark also.
Interesting to see Bain Capital on the list. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) was a founder and earned most of his wealth from Bain. He certain5 didn’t run on a gun control platform in Utah. Makes me wonder what side of the issue he will sit on when the votes are counted. That he spent much of his life, and political career in Massachusetts doesn’t give me a warn feeling either.
Romney left Bain long before the Demwits took control.
Spoke before I read the letter and where I found the names.
One comment in the letter I did not understand their reasoning…”However, in the decades since, the law requiring background checks on guns sales has not been updates to reflect how people buy guns today”. Nothing has changed, that is if a firearm is purchased legally. Even if you purchase over the internet the transaction is supposed to go through a licensed FFL with a background check. Private sales have always been private sales and this has not changed. So, I don’t know what they are talking about.
Clearly the yahoo writing the letter believes the myth of Internet gun sales, so that is the “update” he references. That’s my guess anyway.
I would like to know all 145 companies that were represented in the letter so I’ll know who not to do business with.
This will be easy for for me – the only one of these that I use is Pinterest or should I say used.
I’m surprised OSHA isn’t on the list, seems that they would get invovled with making a safer work place for criminals! And speaking of criminals do a search for mayor frank jackson, frank q jackson, mayor jackson’s grandson mayor jackson’s great grandson and have a look at how the elites have their problems handled! The problem is we havbe to play by the rules the opposition doesn’t.
145 companies not to conduct business with. Shame on them.
Start a Back Ground check on all CEO!!!!!!!
Wow, that’s a big list of companies I will no longer do business with……it’s doable though.