NRA supporters want you to boycott the following companies

Posted By: Peter DavidPosted On:

The following list compiled by the NRA is being bandied about by people who are calling for them to be boycotted. Why? Because they have policies specifically against open carrying of weapons:

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So I’m going to be using this list from now on for stores to shop at and restaurants to patronize. And I’ll even tell them when I spend money that that’s why I’m there and will continue to support them for as long as their policies remain in force. Because guns suck and gun lovers suck.

And as before, all gun lover responses to this posting will be deleted.

PAD

41 comments on “NRA supporters want you to boycott the following companies”

  1. PAD, I have weighed in before on this. The NRA is ultimately on the losing side of this argument. Rather than draw a line in the sand, they’d be smarter to back reasonable control. However, with this all or nothing position, they may well find themselves with “Nothing.” The public is not going to take more of these massacres. And no, as I discussed before, based upon my experiences as a Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney, I don’t see arming everyone as the answer.

    BTW at NYC Comic-com you suggested Fearless for my 13 year old son. He loved it! So, what’s next from the Peter David Book Club?

    Gary Port

    1. The problem with the NRA following through on what you consider smart is that, decades ago, they transformed from a gun-owners organization into an arm of the Gun MANUFACTURERS lobby. Their overriding, primary goal these days it to help gun companies sell more guns. All other considerations are secondary at best.

      1. Thanks! I’ll get over the B & N in Westbury. Despite being addicted to the computer, he refuses to read a book electronically, only print for him.

        I shared this post on my Facebook, and Assemblyman Chuck Lavine (D-Great Neck) liked it. Chuck has always been an advocate here in NY for gun control. But, in the end until there is serious federal action, state controls will be circumvented.

    2. Some might actually pause and themselves what gun lovers could have done that would lead someone who is an unrelentingly staunch supporter of free speech to take that step.

      Then there are those who post snark as if they’re the victim.

  4. I need to drop the NRA a nice thank-you note for compiling a list of places where i can feel somewhat safer than usual.

    1. I just included that list in my SFPAzine for the upcoming January mailing, under the heading “NRA cheat sheet of good places to shop
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  5. I just looked more closely at the list.

    How many NRA supporters are gonna join a boycott of Hooters or the NFL?

  6. I am not sure if I feel worse about being obliged to patronize Hooters or CNN…

    But other than that particular Sophie’s Choice, I notice that I am already patronizing most businesses on that list. And that I have already stopped patronizing most of the competitors of those listed, all for reasons of service and/or quality, regardless of their stance on guns.

    I honestly wonder how many “NRA Approved” companies court their demographic specifically so they don’t have to be good?

  7. I wish the converse was true, and somebody published a list of companies that welcome gun owners with open arms. I might be less than enthusiastic about supporting them. And Peter, I suspect you’re probably deleting rather more comments than usual; if there’s one thing I’ve learned, die-hard NRA supporters don’t like to be locked out of a discussion, whether they’re wanted there or not.

    1. Be careful what you ask for. I went out to the source for PAD’s list and found a page that rates companies by “gun friendliness,” A being the friendliest (Cabella’s, Bass Pro, etc.) and F being PAD’s list above. So now we know where not to shop, too.

      http://www.2acheck.com/2a-ratings/

  8. Funny how the NRA is bìŧçhìņg about companies banning guns in their businesses while forgetting that THEIR OWN NAME belongs on that list. NRA forbids firerms in their headquarters. Guess “sauce for the goose” isn’t sauce for the gander, eh? Dipshit hypocrites. Gladly shopping at as many of these companies as I can.

  9. I hope people realize this is the list NRA “supporters” want you to boycott not the NRA. list created by 2acheck.com. The NRA’s list is much bigger than this. And it doesn’t include some of these and includes some of its own. Ranging from all kinds of things like organizations, corporations media outlets, celebrities, anti-gun national figures, and anti-gun journalists.

  10. From The Daily Beast:

    Concealed Carrier Kills 7-Year-Old Girl

    A seven-year-old girl was shot and killed in Michigan on Thursday night at a soccer practice facility. Timothy Nelson Obeshaw, 57, allegedly fired rounds into a vehicle holding Emma Watson Nowling and her mother, Sharon Elizabeth Watson. He then turned the handgun on himself. Emma passed away at a nearby hospital; the mother is listed as in serious but stable condition.

    Police officials said the 9 mm pistol used in the crime was legally registered to Obeshaw, who had a concealed carry permit.

    He reportedly once lived with the child and her family and was seen by witnesses as happily interacting with the girl at soccer practice shortly before the shooting. No motive has been established outside of family claims that the assailant had been experiencing paranoid episodes as of late.

    {original story at MLive}

    The NRA and its apologists keep telling us that very few legally-acquired guns get used in crimes.

    But – you know?

    Virtually all of the recent mass shootings have involved people with legally-acquired firearms.

    Any comments, NRA?

    1. Let’s try that again – i tried to include a link and it didn’t take.

      Here’s the original story

    2. “The NRA and its apologists keep telling us that very few legally-acquired guns get used in crimes.”

      As is widely reported following most mass shootings, the guns used were acquired legally.

      So the NRA flat out lies. Big surprise.

  11. Yeah, I saw this list on FB a couple of days ago, on a friend’s feed. I just replied with “Great, thanks for the list of places to shop!”

    And if that means googling CBS on my phone at Hooters after seeing a movie at Regal Cinemas, well, that’s a price I’m willing to pay.

  12. Funny how the NRA is bìŧçhìņg about companies banning guns in their businesses while forgetting that THEIR OWN NAME belongs on that list. NRA forbids firerms in their headquarters. Guess “sauce for the goose” isn’t sauce for the gander, eh? Dipshit hypocrites. Gladly shopping at as many of these companies as I can, and researching who else I can add to the list (Disney, and Ben & Jerry’s, so far)
    Prayign for the day when EVERY BUSINESS street, office or home is a gun-free zone.

  13. My library bans guns too. No great shock to hear that NRA supporters will avoid reading books. They’re already quite intellectually challenged.

  14. Unfortunately most of these don’t operate in Canada, so I can’t shop at them anyway. But I’ll try to make a point at shopping at those that are in Canada.

  15. Chuck E. Cheese’s.

    Chuck E. Cheese’s is on that list.

    These people are furious that they aren’t allowed to take a gun into a Chuck E. Cheese’s.

    I know it’s not particularly eloquent, but W.T.F?!?!?!

  16. (From the UK, and we have a tendancy to be anti-gun, thankfully)

    Saddened by yet another massacre in your great country.

    I understand that one argument “for” carrying / owning guns is the ability to defend one’s self, is that right?

    So – genuine question (because I don’t know the answer and haven’t found it via Google): how many of the seemingly dozens of shootings over the past few years were actually stopped by gun-toting citizens?

    S.

    1. Few to none. But here are some interesting facts from the Brady Foundation:

      Every day, 89 people die from gun violence: 31 are murdered; 55 kill themselves; 2 are killed unintentionally; 1 is killed by police intervention; 1 intent unknown.
      Every day, 208 are shot and survive: 151 shot in an assault; 10 survive a suicide attempt; 45 are shot unintentionally, 2 are shot in a police intervention.

  17. So, I’m not sure what qualifies as a ” gun lover response” in your view. I just have to question why you feel the need to delete these responses. Are you interested in debate, or an echo chamber where everybody high-fives and congratulates each other on having the same opinion (e.g. guns and gun “lovers” suck)?

    1. It’s very simple: I’ve been listening to gun lover excuses for forty years. I know them all. I’m sick of them. I’m not going to listen anymore. So anyone who wants to put forward their positive opinions about why guns are needed can do so at any of the hundreds of sites available to them. But not here. Say one supportive word about carrying weapons of death and I will delete it. End of story.

      PAD

  18. Fascinating. Honestly, rather than rehashing stale pro- vs. con- gun control arguments, I would be more interested in exploring the nexus between how the artificial reality of the Internet allows individuals to censor opinions they disagree with (a power they can’t exercise over others in real life) and the Millennial Generation’s belief that there is a right to be shielded from voices that “offend” them and demanding “safe spaces” for their delicate sensibilities.

    1. 1) You might want to start by looking up the definition of the word censor, because it sure as hëll does not apply to Peter’s blog.

      2) This has nothing to do with your BS attempt to blame a younger generation for the problems created by an older one, particularly when Peter is from one of those older generations.

  19. I just keep being sad looking at that Waffle House one because I’m not all that far away from the Waffle House where a waitress working the Thanksgiving shift last month was shot and killed by a man because she was trying to get him to stop smoking.

    And I don’t want to hear anything about how of COURSE he chose a gun-free zone. He didn’t come to that Waffle House *intending* to shoot someone, and he sure wasn’t trying to shoot EVERYONE…he was just a guy who snapped after he couldn’t tell the difference between the Waffle House that allowed smoking and the Waffle House that didn’t.

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