Posted on 02/22/2021 2:43:22 PM PST by Impala64ssa
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms launched an initiative last year aimed at providing information to Second Amendment-loving Americans. The goal was to provide a comprehensive list of companies and/or CEOs who back gun control initiatives and legislation or have anti-firearm corporate policies in place.
“When we started this project last year, we were actually surprised, and in some cases disappointed, at some of the businesses we added to the list," CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb said in a statement. "We discovered several brand name businesses and corporate leaders who evidently have a nefarious agenda to limit gun rights. Their current and potential patrons should have the knowledge of what their hard earned dollars are actually funding.”
The CCRKBA recently added Gucci to the list after it was revealed the high-end brand donated $500,000 to the March for Our Lives organization, which launched after the Parkland shooting in Florida. March for Our Lives quickly used the funds to advance anti-Second Amendment legislation, Gottlieb said.
According to Gottlieb, putting together the list was about giving pro-gun Americans knowledge about their purchasing habits. It's not about boycotting companies and businesses but rather about giving Americans the ability to make informed decisions about where their hard-earned dollars go.
“We encourage people to buy products from companies they can count on to not support efforts aimed at curtailing constitutional rights,” he explained. “By providing this information, we hope gun owning consumers are making reasonable decisions about which businesses to patronize. This might convince some businesses to re-think their core values.”
“We’re not calling for a boycott of these companies,” Gottlieb said. “Businesses and the people who own them can support whatever kind of philosophy they want, and gun owning consumers can likewise not spend any money with those firms. Let the marketplace decide. Over 100 million American gun owners represent a sizeable [sic] consumer bloc, and they will decide where they spend their money.”
Below are the roughly 200 businesses that made the list:
20/20 Vision
A&M Records
AlleyCorp
Alphabet, Inc.
Amalgamated Bank Ambition
AMC Theatres
AOL / Time Warner
Ariel Investments LLC
Artsy
Ascend.io
Aspiration
AT&T
Aura
AutoZone
Backpack
Bad Robot
Bain Capital
Bank of America
Beeswax
Begin
Betaworks
Beyond Meat
Bloomberg LP
Bonusly
Brat
Brookfield Property
Brud
Bumble
Burger King
Cambly
Catch & Release
Cerebras Systems
Chipotle
Circle Medical
ClassPass
Clearbit
Clever
Clockwise
CNN
Color Genomics
Comcast
Conde Nast
Costco
Credit Karma
Crunchbase
Curalate
Curtsy
Dannon
Delta Airlines
DICK’S Sporting Goods
Disney Company
DoorDash
Doxel, Inc.
Ebay
Ecolab
Edelman
Elektra Labs
Emerson Collective
Enterprise
Eventbrite
Farmstead
Full Picture
Fundera
Gap Inc.
Gateway Computers
GE
GEICO
Goat Group
Golden
Graphic Packaging
Group Nine Media
Gucci
Guru
Hallmark Cards
Hard Rock Cafe
Havas Group HBO
Hint, Inc.
HipDot
Hooked
Horizon Media
Humbition
Impossible Foods
Interpublic
Intuit
JOOR
Jumbo Privacy
Kabbage Inc.
Kadena
Kanga
Knowable
Lattice
Levi Strauss & Co.
Lucent Technologies
Lyft
MetaProp.vc
MetLife
Microsoft
Modern Fertility
MongoDB Inc.
MSNBC
MTV
Navient
NBC Universal
NCR Corp.
Neighborland
NewsCred
Nextdoor
NowThis
Nurx
Oaktree Capital
Oberndorf Enterprises
Oceans
OfferUp
Okta
Omnicom Group
Openpath
Panera Bread
Parabol
Paravision
Paypal
Pinterest
Plato Design
Postmates
Presto
Prima
Progressive Insurance
Prologis
Publicis Groupe
Quartzy
Reddit
Ribbon Health
Ro
Roofstock
Royal Caribbean Cruises
RXR Realty
Sara Lee
SelfMade
Shoptiques Inc.
Showtime Cable Network
Shutterstock Inc.
Sidewalk Labs
Sift
Skillshare
SkySafe
Small Door
SmartAsset
Snapdocs, Inc.
Solve.io
Sonic
Southwestern Bell
Splash
Square and Twitter
Squarespace
Standard Bots
Subway
Sundia Corporation
Sunlight Health
Superplastic
SurveyMonkey
SV Angel
Symantec
ThirdLove
Thisopenspace inc.
Thrive Capital
Thrive Global
ThunderCore Inc.
Tillable
Tinder
TOMS
Twilio
Uber
Uniform Teeth
Viosera Therapeutics
Virtual Kitchen
Voxer
Voyage
Watsi WayUp
Whalar
Wizeline
WPP
X.ai, inc.
Y Combinator
Yelp
Yum Brands
Zola
Is it safe to say that the business community is no longer a bastion of Republican thought?
We are and have been in a position where if one or two SCREAM loud enough for the ‘restrictions’, thousands of us basically just shake our heads and say it isn’t right etc.
Maybe if WE took some time from earning a living and raising a family to make our voices heard.
Most companies will back off if 60% of the population is LOUDLY for or against it etc...
FOLLOW THE MONEY
DICK’S Sporting Goods Is listed. That outfit is now totally FUBAR.
Listing Bain Capital does no good. We need to know the investments they hold which are undoubtedly anti-American.
Where is Amazon?
I just bought an Asus Zephyrus laptop; I imagine the Taiwanese have a clearer picture of leftism than these PC American companies. And I’m so far pretty happy with the laptop. It’s not much larger than an ultrabook, builds fast, and has a decent keyboard and good touchpad. I haven’t tried gaming on it yet.
Amazon doesn’t? Fakebook doesn’t? And only NBC /Comcast does out of al the lying liberal media outlests? Rather surprising.
I have to have xfinity internet for my work...it’s either that or at&t fiber. But that’s the only one of all of those companies I knowingly pay a lot of money to.
Showtime is included in my cable package, so I guess that counts. I’ve picked up bagels at Panera a year or so ago. And I buy Sara Lee classic white when I need white bread and don’t feel like baking my own, which is rare. I usually bake my own or eat Arnold whole grain breads.
Yeah, because that's a rational, measured response.
Did it ever occur to you that there are employees of these companies who don't fall in lockstep with their employers? You would deny people a fundamental right based on association alone? How is this solution any different than the distinction itself?
In case you missed it (ICYMI), Alphabet Inc. is Google & Youtube just to name 2 subsidiaries. “Do no evil”, yeah, right!
How was this list compiled? I accept the names until I got to Southwestern Bell. That company has not existed for well over years. I started my career there and retired from its successor SBC. What gives?
Thanks!
So I wonder if the CEOs and upper échelon management types are giving up their armed security yet?
https://dworakpeck.usc.edu/news/call-for-action-to-prevent-gun-violence-the-united-states-of-america
I ran a big marketing dept. There was a cardinal rule...no politics or religion would be tied to the company or products. Any mention of these and you instantly lose that market segment that disagrees with you. You can never win MORE business, you can only lose market share. it is THE MOST STUPID MARKETING MOVE YOU CAN MAKE. (Who the he’ll are running these companies today?)
I don't know about who's running them but I'd say the previous post holds the clue to who is influencing them.
There's a lot of scrolling involved.
“None of those businesses are ones we frequent. I think we already cancelled them all.”
That was my reaction, too. I shop little, buy house brands and make my own when it comes to foodstuffs.
The last time we ‘went out’ for dinner was the Culver’s Drive-Through because we had been on the road all day and it was getting late.
Butter Burgers. Yum! :)
The only one of those companies I go to or use is AutoZone. So, it looks like I’ll be going to Pep Boys or O’Reilly’s from now on (they are both about a mile or so further away from my house than AutoZone, but that’s okay).
Mark
“Did the mafia come by and say, ‘Aren’t you concerned about your business’s SOCIAL IMAGE?’”
The Gay Mafia or the BLM Mafia, most likely...
Wonder when the ‘Goodfellas’ are going to become concerned that all of these other ‘groups’ are movin’ in on their territories?
Meh. They’ve probably already got their fingers in the pies. ;)
AMC Theaters - dying industry, I suspect at 25-50% of theaters to close in the next year or so. Even with restrictions lifted, movies are backlogged by 6-12 months, noting to release and put people in the seats.
Bank of America - Possibly the worst bank ever.
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