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Corporate America throws weight behind gun controls
The Hill ^ | 03/03/18 | Melanie Zanona

Posted on 03/03/2018 9:01:54 AM PST by yesthatjallen

Corporate America is taking the lead on gun control as Congress slides back into gridlock on the issue.

Several major retailers have decided to impose new restrictions on firearm sales, while scores of companies have moved to cut ties with the National Rifle Association (NRA).

“This is the biggest signal to me that on this issue, there has been a tipping point,” said Rich Masters, head of North America crisis and issues management for Qorvis. “Companies don’t do this unless they know they are gonna be on fairly safe ground.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antinra; corporations; gun; usconstitution
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Liberals praise and champion the efforts of corporations to undermine our rights under the United States Constitution.
1 posted on 03/03/2018 9:01:54 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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Are those the same evil, greedy capitalistic corporations that libs hate?
And, of course, the effect of these so-called “weight” is equal to that of a Hillary speech.

Meanwhile, the NRA’s enrollment has increased measurably, and the vast majority of us out here who own guns f*rt in the general direction of the idiots on both coasts.


2 posted on 03/03/2018 9:04:38 AM PST by Da Coyote
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Corporate America throws weight behind gun controls

Big Business can be as big a threat to individual freedoms and liberties as Big Government. Take a look at how much of our information must be filtered through Google, Facebook and Twitter and take a look at where the political and social instincts of the executives at those companies lie - these are not people who value the rights of the individual nearly as much as they value the rights of special, privileged groups.
3 posted on 03/03/2018 9:07:30 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: yesthatjallen

....and the useful idiots voted to enact their own wretched slavery. A hop-skip-&-jump to oblivion. May God bless us all.


4 posted on 03/03/2018 9:08:35 AM PST by Scooter100
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To: yesthatjallen
Hopefully, more left wing corporations will follow their advise and commit corporate Seppuku/kamikaze Left Wing Virtue Signalling with their fatal Never Trump Mental disease.

Check my tagline for the under estimated fact/reality by the left wing corporations, CEO’s and boards.

5 posted on 03/03/2018 9:09:19 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Never pick a fight with an angry wasp nest of 63+ million Trump Deplorables. You will lose!)
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To: yesthatjallen

A lot of company, have paid, armed security details. Tell them to dismiss their security guards and tell us afterwards how they feel, if it makes them feel more safe.


6 posted on 03/03/2018 9:09:35 AM PST by rovenstinez
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To: yesthatjallen

Our own I.G. Farben.


7 posted on 03/03/2018 9:11:58 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Da Coyote
Liberals love the corporations they can successfully pressure to enact their 'social justice' agenda.
8 posted on 03/03/2018 9:12:14 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

America’s oligarchs support the ruling class and their ideology.

In that regard, no different from Russia, only a matter of degree.


9 posted on 03/03/2018 9:14:34 AM PST by PGR88
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What the leftists are doing is precisely what the NAZIs did in the late 20’s and early 30’s. They pressured the corporations to enforce NAZI values.

The leftist have always had a strong fascistic streak in them.

Now, their racism is against white people instead of black people.


10 posted on 03/03/2018 9:17:42 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: rovenstinez

How about obeying current immigration laws before creating more gun laws.


11 posted on 03/03/2018 9:23:55 AM PST by edzo4 (Thank Q very much!!!)
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To: yesthatjallen

there has been a tipping point,” said Rich Masters, head of North America crisis and issue

Yeah, Rich. Talk to Delta.


12 posted on 03/03/2018 9:24:19 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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Are those the same evil, greedy capitalistic corporations that libs hate
Yep! The same eeevil capatalist pigs are now being praised by the left for doing the L-rd's work.
13 posted on 03/03/2018 9:31:43 AM PST by Impala64ssa (Islamophobic? NO! IslamABHORic)
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Link to the article and at the bottom click Load Comments.

It's an avalanche of posts right now; almost too fast to keep up with.

It's a good way to find out what current talking points liberals are spouting to promote 'gun control' and an opportunity to hone your skills at presenting rational, reasoned counter arguments.

If you have a Disqus account, you can join in.

If not reading the comments is both eye opening and frightening.

14 posted on 03/03/2018 9:35:51 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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Swill Mill up to something

WHERE IS THE DEMAND FOR FEDERAL AND STATE INVESTIGATIONS ????
They’re missing the point It’s not guns or the NRA It’s policies which had cops standing outside while killing was going on or some nut getting a gun the FBI knew he wasn’t suppose to... Plus a whole raft of other stuff
THE MEDIA IS DOING THIS BECAUSE
THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW WHY THIS HAPPENED
STOP SPREADING THE CABLE SWILL MILLS POISON
DEMAND STATE AND FED INVISTIGATION ON THE POLICIES WHICH CAUSED THIS
http://www.theusmat.com/index.htm


15 posted on 03/03/2018 9:37:17 AM PST by mosesdapoet (Mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin another gem posted in the wilderness)
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To: yesthatjallen

Well, it is thehill so as expected.


16 posted on 03/03/2018 9:38:24 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: yesthatjallen

American corporations who throw their weight behind gun control reveal themselves to be greedy traitors to the United States of America.


17 posted on 03/03/2018 9:39:45 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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Corporate America throws weight behind gun controls

Why yes, my crony capitalist partners supported my gun control, why do you ask?

18 posted on 03/03/2018 9:43:37 AM PST by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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"Are those the same evil, greedy capitalistic corporations that libs hate?"

They only 'hate' corporations when they're preaching their BS to Millennial and other gullible groups. The fact of the matter is that starting with the Clinton Administration the democrat global fascists have gone all out to take over nearly all the boards of directors and corporate leadership positions in large companies.

The democrat party is now, and since at least the early twentieth century has been, a fascist party. That is, they believe that government and corporations should act of one accord under the control of the same people, guiding the future of the world through eugenics and dictating to the serfs not only what to buy, but also what is or is not moral, where to live, and so on.

Looking at the US today it's clear that long term planning backed up by dedicated people following through on that plan with a single, clear, goal is what works to change the entire character of a nation.

So far, I don't see the so-called 'conservatives' in this country as being willing to unite and put the same sort of long term effort into taking the country back that the fascists have put turning the US into just another turdworld chithole under their thumb.

In fact, I can't even find anything much that "Conservatives" have conserved, especially the corporate structures so many dense conservatives still believe are guided by some "invisible hand" they worship and call, "The Market".

In a fascist state, which we have near totally become, nothing like "The Market" exists. It's been replaced, the role it played usurped by the fascist oligarchs running the government who tailor their policies to aid their chosen winners and punish their chosen losers the same way those chosen winners tailor their policies to aid the government.

JMHo

19 posted on 03/03/2018 9:48:43 AM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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Ha ha ha ha
Virtue signaling that’s all
Let’s see them pass something
Ha ha ha ha
And get trump to sign it
Ha ha ha ha
They couldn’t even ban bump stocks which like 90%!and the NRA agree with
Again I laugh. Ha ha ha ha ha
Ask Shakespeare said
Much ado about nothing


20 posted on 03/03/2018 9:48:51 AM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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