Thursday, March 1, 2018

Dick's is Being a Dick

Dick’s, Major Gun Retailer, Will Stop Selling Assault-Style Rifles

From the article:

One of the nation’s largest sports retailers, Dick’s Sporting Goods, said Wednesday morning it was immediately ending sales of all assault-style rifles in its stores.

The retailer also said that it would no longer sell high-capacity magazines and that it would not sell any gun to anyone under 21 years of age, regardless of local laws.

The announcement, made two weeks after the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., that killed 17 students and staff members, is one of the strongest stances taken by corporate America in the national gun debate. It also carries symbolic weight, coming from a prominent national gunseller.


Vox Day weighs in:
It will be interesting to see how long it takes him to change his tune. Notice how it is almost never the founders of companies who ever do anything this stupid? It's always heirs and infiltrators, which tends to demonstrate that those who do not create businesses may understand how to work the internal machinery and manage the processes established, but they lack an inherent understanding of why and how the business exists in the first place.


Of course, Dick's pulled a similar dick move in 2012 after Sandy Hook. And they  paid a price  for being a dick. One of these days, sales will drop so much, they will no longer be able to dick over their customers.

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