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From CBS News:

Corporations and guns: How companies are reshaping the gun control debate

Overseeing more than 720 stores in 47 states, Ed Stack, the CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods, has a multi-billion-dollar empire to run. But Stack is now balancing running a business with his new role as one of the corporate faces of America’s gun control debate.

“I don’t understand how somebody, with everything that’s gone on, could actually sit there and say, ‘I don’t think we need to do a background check on people who buy guns.’ It’s just, it’s ridiculous,” he said.

Nobody is saying that.  That is a red herring, bullshit lie.

It’s a pretty controversial stand from a company that’s been in the gun business a long, long time. His father, Richard Stack, started Dick’s Bait and Tackle in Binghamton, New York in 1948.

As Dick’s grew, it became one of the biggest sellers of firearms. Until, that is, 2012, when a gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

Enter the Wokeness…

“All we were going to do was just take it off the shelf and not say anything,” said Stack.

The “it” he’s talking about is the AR-15, a lightweight semi-automatic modern sporting rifle similar to the one used in the Sandy Hook massacre. He ordered all of them be removed from every Dick’s Sporting Goods store across the country.

This is where things take a turn for the possible criminal.

The experience moved Stack’s stand again guns one step further. He announced he would no longer sell any firearm to anyone under the age of 21 – a move many inside the company warned would surely drive off sales. And it did.

Cowan asked, “How much did you think you were going to lose?”

“A quarter of a billion dollars,” Stack replied.

“And how much did you actually lose?”

“About a quarter of a billion! Pretty close.”

On top of that, the assault-style rifles he still had in stock – about $5 million worth of inventory – he turned into scrap metal.

Dick’s Sporting Goods is a publicly-traded company on the NYSE as DKS.

According to Cornell Law:

Tortious interference is a common law tort allowing a claim for damages against a defendant who wrongfully interferes with the plaintiff’s contractual or business relationships.

The CEO of Dick’s deliberately destroyed $5 million dollars in good, sellable inventory and made a decision, apparently, unilaterally, that was predicted to and did do $250 Million in damage to the financial value of the company.

This wasn’t an accidental bad decision by the CEO.  A marketing idea that flopped or something like that.  This was a deliberate and calculated plan that he knew would hurt the company financially and he did it anyway, and arguably there is no evidence that this act saved even one life.

CBS may be praising him, but what about the shareholders and people invested in Dick’s?  Are they all happy that the CEO decided to virtue signal a quarter of a billion dollars in value away and scrap $5 million in good inventory?

Hopefully, he will be sued and will lose, that is the only way to send a message to Woke corporate America.  The CEO who virtue signals his or her company into the ground will pay for it out of pocket, grievously.

A man had his truck stolen for the second time in less than a month Sunday on La Crosse’s South Side, authorities say.
La Crosse police are looking for a pair of African American teens accused of taking the 2010 Ford F-350 Super Duty on a joy ride early Sunday morning.
According to the police report, the owner left the vehicle locked and parked, with the keys in a hidden cupholder, at about 12:40 a.m. on East Avenue and Ferry Street. When he came outside five minutes later the vehicle was gone, and he called police.
The truck was previously stolen Sept. 11.
The owner told police he had left his other set of keys inside in the same cupholder and found it later that day on the 1600 block of Market Street. Those keys were not recovered at the time.

Truck stolen twice in one month on La Crosse’s South Side

Let me summarize the whole thing: He got his ruck stolen once, he had a copy of the keys in the cup holder which were stolen.  The truck is recovered and this time he makes sure is closed, but apparently he never got around to change the locks because when the cops recovered the truck the second frigging time, they found the stolen keys in it.

He is a victim alright, but I won’t say of what as not to hurt the sensitivities of some.
Screw that, he was victim of his own stupidity.

Hat Tip Eve’s Husband.

and not being used as front for clowns fishing with rifles who are risking their Not-For-Profit status.

By Lee Williams on October 7, 2019 News – National

Florida Carry, Inc. — the state’s largest and most active gun rights organization — in a letter to Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, is demanding a statewide investigation into “law enforcement’s illegal abuse, misuse, and general operation of the FINDER database including the compilation of lists of gun owners, and illegal retention of records.”

“There are felonies being committed by the Charlotte County Sheriff and, possibly, by other sheriffs throughout the state,” said Sean Caranna, founder and executive director of Florida Carry, Inc.

Charlotte County Sheriff Bill Prummell did not return calls or emails seeking comment for this story.

Florida Carry: Charlotte County Sheriff illegally obtaining gun owners’ personal information in violation of state law

And here is the letter sent to Moody. I won’t write about this when I can send you straight to Lee Williams’ great piece… so go read!

Like Miguel, I can’t take environmentalists seriously.

I have a hard time respecting the gravitas of people who feel the need to march around in a costume chanting like they are a member of a self-flagellating medieval religious order.

Or when they say “200 species go extinct every day, 120 from meat consumption.”  That’s 73,000 per year.  Name them.  Tell me what 200 species will go extinct today because I had sausage with my breakfast.

But no only that, is who these environmentalists targets that is so wrong.

As others have pointed out, Greta railed against the US and Europe but China puts out more CO2 and pollution than the US and EU combined.

One of the things that drives me nuts is when this same ideological blind spot is used when it comes to animal conservation.

This is the cover of this month’s National Geographic:

Wow, you terrible Americans, stop wiping out the White Rhino.

Except it’s not Americans wiping out the White Rhino.

Watch this:

That’s funny, but it’s also true.

What is wiping out the White Rhino, Bengal Tiger, and countless other species is wealthy Chinese, who despite a Western education, have a deep cultural belief in traditional Chinese medicine.

The White Rhino is being killed off, not by Americans on illicit safari, but African locals who cut off the horns and sell them to Chinese dot com millionaires to grind into powder and rub on their dicks.

I have never seen a single environmentalist ever go on a rant against wealthy Chinese and the species they are wiping out because of traditional medicine.

That would be condemned as “racist” in a heart beat.

Instead, they have to criticize lawful trophy hunting, which gives a financial incentive to protect these animals as a game species instead of poaching them for their horn.

When China is busy filling our skies with poison and filling our seas with garbage and plastic from their polluted rivers, it’s Americans who are bombarded with messages about needing to eat less meat and give up our drinking straws.

Until these people start addressing the worst polluters and not the polluters with the most privilege. we are going to get nowhere.

There seems to be a sort of global thing going on today with the group called Extinction Rebellion. Apparently they are preaching the end of the world if we do not forsake our Capitalist way and go back to simple living.  Although there has been some very minor demonstrations in other countries, the bulk of the display has been in London. The want to raise shit, go for it.

You cannot start the revolution in an empty stomach. Le’s get us some Mc Muffins first.

“Don’t call us clowns! We are serious!”

And why I advocate the Clue By Four: You may have a complain and the right to protest, but do not impede access to a hospital for any reason at all.

IN researching my last post on Kamala Harris, I saw this Tweet in Harris’ feed.

Since it is ideologically tied to my previous post on Che, I decided to write about it.

Notice the Twitter name this Woman uses: Malena Fighting Tyranny & Concentration Camps.

What is she calling for?

Gun control on a massive scale.

She wants to fight tyranny and concentration camps by electing a politician who has promised to use executive orders to take away guns from tens of millions of law-abiding Americans.

The cognitive dissonance in that making my head spin.

I guess it’s not tyranny when they do it, and it’s not concentration camps when it’s Republican NRA members getting shoved into them.

The woman that wants people disarmed…

Also wants to eliminate prisons…

D Level celebrity Chelsea Handler is commenting about the case of Deandre Somerville who the media has falsely chose to portray as “oversleeping” for jury duty  rather than “He was chosen for jury duty but found it boring and decided go play b-ball with his buddies without notifying the court and fuck the court system.”

Let me see: Socialist wants people disarmed and the country overrun over with violent criminals. Why does that sound familiar and even personal? Oh yes! Venezuela!