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Dick’s Sporting Goods: May They Go Bankrupt
It’s one thing to adopt a policy to appeal to the PC era we’re in. However, I think Dick’s has gone way too far with their latest lame attempt at virtue-signaling:
Dick’s Sporting Goods announced on Monday it will destroy all of the unsold firearms it pulled off store shelves in February after the deadly Parkland school shooting.
The sports retailer decided to destroy the assault-style rifles instead of returning them to the manufacturer, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette reported. On Feb. 28, 2018, the Pittsburgh-based company announced it would immediately stop selling assault-style rifles and ban the sale of all guns to anyone under 21. It was not immediately clear how many firearms will be destroyed.
“We are in the process of destroying all firearms and accessories that are no longer for sale as a result of our February 28th policy change,” a spokesperson from Dick’s Sporting Goods told the media outlet. “We are destroying the firearms in accordance with federal guidelines and regulations.”
Okay, so they don’t want to sell these firearms to people under 21. But now, they’ve gone a step too far. They could have donated these weapons to law enforcement, or to private security firms.
But noooooooo! They want the photo op of a bulldozer shoveling these finely crafted weapons into a furnace, a crusher, or whatever.
May they go out of business for good.
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Maybe the upper echelons of the corporation have drunk the Kool Aid at college? (Looks like Starbucks has madness at the top, too.) Economics accounts for only so much in our decisions.
But can they do it without virtue signalling? Why not say, “We don’t make much money from AR-15 sales, so we’re going to stop.”
No, they have to lie, and to present themselves as a company of virtue.
… because their research tells them that’s what appeals to their target market.
I would like to know why Nebraska keeps electing democrats.
I got into this discussion late, but having a son who works for Dick’s, I would rather not see the company go under. Perhaps market forces will make top management come to their senses.
Here’s my guess. Maybe a larger pct. of the populace lives in the largest urban area of Omaha where gun ownership might be lower. Or maybe folks just don’t wish to broadcast their ownership. I was shocked by the numbers for PA until I realized that Philly and Pittsburgh make of a huge chumk of the populace. Once you leave the city limits of those 2 locales, you’re in a place that make Texas look like California.
I dunno. Why would Nebraska be more urbanized than its neighbours South Dakota, Kansas, and Colorado?