These establishments do not deserve my patronage.
> These establishments do not deserve my patronage. <
And they don’t deserve to have any decent employees. So maybe those stores should hire bums and drug addicts right off the street. See how that works out.
“These establishments do not deserve my patronage.”
If we don’t support retailers who continue to sell firearms and especially handguns and those scary-looking rifles, the many DEI pressure groups will have won.
Not many big general sporting goods companies are left that do. Dick’s gave in and now is the darling of wall street even though its financials are worse. Academy continues selling self-defense firearms after being sued about and blamed for the Uvalde school attack.
Hopefully when the news cycle dies down Academy will quietly rehire these good folks the way Home Depot did, and look for better lawyers and insurance. After Uvalde I can’t imagine Academy’s board wouldn’t think that letting a firearm go out with a criminal isn’t different than basketball shoes.
Academy stores are in conservative states, where they would stand a better chance in court. Maybe what this situation and the Uvalde situation call for is those states (or Congress) passing laws relieving tort liability and providing public compensation for injuries (workman’s comp?) sustained protecting against gun crimes. It would be a more sensible crime fighting expense than most.