You do your best. Just like GE Capital does its best to not do business with firearms companies, but can't avoid doing business with WalMart. We can still target certain companies to shun. Is it fair to shun some anti-gun companies and not others? No. But, I don't care about fair. Target the weak or small anti-gun companies that are easy to boycott.
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- Thread starter Mike in Va.
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You do your best. Just like GE Capital does its best to not do business with firearms companies, but can't avoid doing business with WalMart. We can still target certain companies to shun. Is it fair to shun some anti-gun companies and not others? No. But, I don't care about fair. Target the weak or small anti-gun companies that are easy to boycott.
Double Naught Spy
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Yeah, how we doing with that? How many have we driven out of business or made change their ways with boycotts? Seems to me the only success stories I read are those where some concerned pro-gun person had a nice chat with the owner/manager of various individual stores and got the rules changed. Nasty, threatening of boycott chats, etc., along with actual boycotts, seem to regularly fail, unless bluster is how we gauge success.
buck460XVR
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Originally posted by Mike in Va.:
I noticed today, that my Wal-Mart credit card was issued by
G.E.Capital Credit.
As you may know, G.E. Capital Credit, recently issued a statement,
that they would not lend money to gun shops, or any firearms related
business.
If they won't do business with us, why should we do business with them ?
I will still patronize Wal-Mart, but use another credit card.
The Wal-Mart card went into the sredder.
I don't understand. If you refuse to use the GE credit card because they are anti-gun, why would you do business with a company like Wal-Mart that is in bed with them and uses them as the sponsor for their credit card? Isn't that like claiming you never voted for Obama, but still voted for Nancy Pelosi?
Those folks that want to curtail any involvement with anti-gun corporations might be surprised if they looked in depth at what constitutes the portfolio of their mutual funds...especially those securities currently earning the most income.
Double Naught Spy
New member
I don't understand. If you refuse to use the GE credit card because they are anti-gun, why would you do business with a company like Wal-Mart that is in bed with them and uses them as the sponsor for their credit card?
Now there's the rub, isn't it? We do a lot of blustering of convenience. We will boycott Autozone because they fired an employee for bringing a gun to work, but then we will buy autoparts made by companies who don't allow employees to carry at work from another company that if regional or national, likely doesn't allow their staff to carry either.
In short and as a group, we tend to fixate on whatever company is the anti-gun du jour, make a lot of noise about boycotts, then generally fail to do anything constructive that results in any sort of change in company behavior. The really ironic thing comes in the forms to justifications we use for supporting given companies that are anti-gun while at the same time protesting others.
Those folks that want to curtail any involvement with anti-gun corporations might be surprised if they looked in depth at what constitutes the portfolio of their mutual funds...especially those securities currently earning the most income.
More of the irony, eh?