Octang Frye

Translation: A criminal committed a crime.

Giantaxe

I'm sure they'll be heartbroken... me, I'll be spending my recreation dollars at REI even more - great store.

Lion in Winter

They will have done the math ahead of you, and worked out that they stand to keep and gain more customers than they lose.

Octang Frye

Really? Like the 97% who support gun control or the Hillary Landslide.

They've all taken a hit. You guys are relentless in your ability to delude yourselves.
If only you could channel that energy into something creative or useful.

Lion in Winter

Who are you talking to and to which post are you referring?

Anian

This is why people don't respond to you and make you think you have been shadowbanned.

Octang Frye

You, mainly. And that gadfly-by-the-bay Giantaxe.

You seem to think that the majority of the people support this virtue signalling when I'm telling you you're wrong. These companies will take a hit.
And I was saying the polls all say 97% of people want gun control - or so the media tell us - and that Hillary will win in a landslide. Well, they were wrong then and they're wrong now.

I would recommend you all need to get down off that high horse and don't take that tone with me, it's not very persuasive.
You can't just go around insulting people. Well, you can, but it's bad form.

Giantaxe

Get back to us when you have some evidence to back up this assertion.

Octang Frye

Civility, please!

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/23/b...a-boycott.html

https://truthfeednews.com/boycott-su...e-a-major-hit/

anotherlimey

That will stop the next mass shooting then.

mrken30

Maybe not directly, but if manufacturers and vendors don't get funding, they will go under. The gun industry is already struggling.

Oakvillian

The request for evidence stands. What you posted was a piece from the NY Times saying that there is a breadth of opinion on the matter, while pointing out that the support for companies cutting ties with the NRA appears to be gathering momentum; and a piece from another publication with which I am not familiar, which seems very much to have relied on the twitter rant of one individual for its source material. As has been stated many times previously, the plural of anecdote is not data.

Octang Frye

Yeah, but the market will find a way. It's an opportunity for someone.
Anti activists have been pushing paypal and Visa and Mastercard to not do business with firearm manufacturers. It hasn't worked.

Google/YouTube's chilling censorship of conservative voices will create an opportunity in the same way. And, **** those guys. Use duckduckgo instead.

mrken30

But similar tactics worked with the fur trade. Not that many people buy or wear fur anymore.

Octang Frye

Ah, Poison Oak Villain, as I like to call him, returns to the thread.
I'm also relying on my gut - which tells me it is so. And before you scoff, people used it to determine latitude.