Nothing else will do.
Posted on 02/23/2018 11:42:14 PM PST by animal172
A Boston-based home security company co-founded by the chief financial officer of Boston Public Schools has cut its ties to the National Rifle Association amid fierce pushback among parents and gun control activists.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
...”I have been a loyal Simplisafe customer for the last year and a half. Guess it’s time to call them up and cancel. Hard to do because I do like their product. The article comments are worth noting for their obvious hatred of the NRA.”...
Me, too. For 5 years we have used their system and talked family into using it, too. Now, it looks as though they want to punish those who make it possible for people to defend themselves until the police get there. It took a tech nerd to develop this system. Why are they all socialists? Why do they want to subject everyone to, perhaps, the greatest threat to anyone which is to take away a person’s right to self defense? Rush also advertises for SimpliSafe. Wonder how he will handle this.
...”I was also considering a system this summer when my wired system contract expires. Another savings...WOOT!”...
The savings are not worth supporting people who want to damage the rights given to this country in our Constitution. Suggestion. Before signing with another company, find out where they stand on this issue. Do not embolden the socialists among us. History proves that socialism brings a nation’s people into communism as it enriches the masters and enslaves everyone else. Young people are so ignorant about the history of this world and that ignorance is bound to repeat and repeat. We need to fight it as long and as hard as we can. Sad about SimpliSafe. it was a good system but not worth promoting their politics.
SimpliSafe was founded in 2006 by then Harvard Business School students, Chad and Eleanor Laurans, after several friends in the Cambridge area experienced break-ins, but couldn’t find a security company that was designed to help renters.[1][2] Prior to Harvard, Chad attended Yale, where he majored in electrical engineering and graduated in 2000.[3]
Chad and Eleanor worked on SimpliSafe in their own home from 2006 to 2008.[1][3] Chad designed the system and tested it at friends’ residences for feedback.[1] SimpliSafe launched in 2009 with initial funding from angel investors.[4][5]
In 2010, revenue for the company was $1.4 million.[6] In 2013 revenue was $38.5 million.[7]
In May 2014, Sequoia Capital invested $57 million in SimpliSafe through a Series A round of funding.[8][9][4] As part of the investment deal, Sequoia partner Scott Carter joined the SimpliSafe board.[5][9] The same year, the company was reported to have more than 100,000 customers and was listed as the second fastest growing company in the Boston area on the Inc. 5000 list.[5][7]
In 2015, SimpliSafe grew from 100 employees to about 250 employees, and was reported to have 300,000 customers.[1][10]
In February 2018, SimpliSafe said they had stopped offering a discount to National Rifle Association members in response to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.
Sad.
They caved to the liberals for no reason (other than living in Taxachusetts, home of insufferable moonbats and Massholes). They need to learn to follow the example of our President, who kicks liberals in the teeth routinely, despite being from New Yawk!
Does anyone know who their bigest competitor is?
Years ago I suggested that if we are to avoid CW II we have to have an “economic divorce”. Two ideologically opposed systems cannot share one public space. My solution was to have two separate economies. Rat money for libtards and conservative money. Different colors. (SInce I prefer blue I wont use the Brown Shirt Media system). Every business should make it clear whether they are for libtards or conservatives. They should only hire their own and should refuse the business of people who are not of their own.
I think this is a great idea and this business is just moving that direction as is Google and a number of others.
That should be interesting. Possibilities I can think of:
They advertise on Glenn Beck too. He’s a loyal supporter of the NRA.
“Your logic befuddles me. That is, unless you’re a tool of the MSM and the liberal establishment.”
Pretty sure we’ve interacted on FR before and you’re welcome to search my posts. I think you’ll find I’m not a tool of the MSM/establishment, otherwise why would I have been here since 2000. I’d recommend you read the article and your questions will be answered as well as remove your befuddlement about my comment.
Right now, however, I’m going to assume you don’t care to give the Herald the click so I’ll be as clear as I can in relating the story. The husband and wife (Laurans) co-founded SimpliSafe. It was discovered by the group bringing pressure on companies doing business with the NRA that the wife, Elanor Laurans, is the CFO of Boston Public Schools. This created leverage to push SimpliSafe to no longer offer a discount to NRA members through their affinity program. The leverage exists because of the perception that the wife should be all about school safety, i.e. hate the NRA.
I encourage you to do the click thru and read. I hope the above is clear on how the conflict exists in the minds of the anti-NRA activists because of the NRA business relationship, not because of the burglar alarm business per se. The SimpliSafe owners were getting their bread buttered on both sides because of the increased sales from the NRA affinity program while the wife collected a nice check from Boston Public Schools as the CFO which the liberal anti-NRA activists have staked out as a location where all must be pure from any evil NRA association.
Big error on their part. It’s a good company that will end up out of business. I don’t own a gun, don’t want a gun. But I went through the NYPD firearm training class when I was young. I can shoot okay at a range, but I don’t have the right disposition to handle a gun in a panic situation. I love concealed carry guns in the right hands. I worked in court and every cop that came in had a marksman badge above their shield. It was rare to see a cop with an expert badge. That meant that most cops couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn. My husband was one of the rare ones with an expert badge. I wanted my husband to volunteer to do security at my grandson’s school. He explained to me that the liability would destroy us if he ever used his gun. NRA offers some kind of insurance, but it probably wouldn’t cover that situation. Too bad. If there had been more cops like him the airports could have been more pleasant. He can tell you just by watching who is up to no good. I have grandchildren in schools today. I want them to be safe and come home every day. No one knows how they would react in a bad situation. I’m sure there are people who have been in war zones and are cool under pressure, but not everyone that has a gun and has been properly trained in its use is the right person to put in a school. I think about the cops responding to a shooting outside the Empire State Building when there were a number of pedestrians shot, and every one of them was hit by a police bullet. But I’m sure even though I have zero interest in belonging to the NRA, I’m not the only person that will boycott any business that makes any move against them. I will vote with my dollars.
The savings come from not choosing SimpliSafe as the successor to my current provider of a system that was wired into my house when I built it in 2009. My contract with that provider expires this summer so I would be free to go with an alternative like SimpliSafe. It was under consideration but I now will reject it and start a search for the next potential alternative. In the meantime, I save because I’ve not spent money on the SimpliSafe equipment. Hope you get it now - I have no interest in empowering anybody that desires to remove or reduce my rights or freedoms. I don’t conduct an extensive interview with all the service providers I use but I do require that they are not in my face with their opposition to my choice to exercise my rights and freedoms.
Amen but remember, our rights don’t come from the Country/Constitution. They are unalienable because they are endowed by our Creator!
Here, you’ve found it:
www.lifeshield.com
https://btr-tpa-grass-1.blogtalkradio.com/1003899090-587539742.mp3
The consensus of Vlahos and Batchelor appears to be that the elites (i.e., the globalists, the cut-America down-to-size crowd) are ultimately at a disadvantage in the struggle. Let us hope.
I had been considering SimpliSafe...I just sent them this:
“Hello,
I just wanted to let you know that your recent actions to contravene the Second Amendment have lost you a potential customer.
I had been considering signing up for your service after hearing about your company on the Rush Limbaugh show over the past several weeks. However, today it came to my attention through an article published by the Boston Herald that SimpliSafe has chosen to sever ties to the National Rifle Association due to pressure from ThinkProgress.org, an organization dedicated to infringing the civil liberties of all Americans.
By aligning your company with the anti-civil rights position of ThinkProgress.org, your company has telegraphed to both your customers and potential customers that SimpliSafe does not value the Constitution and the inalienable right of all Americans to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment.
Let me assure you that I will never support any entity that sides with those that seek to undermine our Constitution. By taking your action against the National Rifle Association, the oldest civil rights organization in America, I am forced to choose one of your competitors for my home security needs. Additionally, you can rest assured that I will take every opportunity to tell others to avoid your company and I will be contacting all media outlets with whom you advertise to express my displeasure with your company.”
The implications of your post are libelous. You are maintaining that there is some sort of ethical conflict between being being CFO of a government entity and owning an interest in an unrelated private security company that happens to advertise in conjunction with El Rushbo and the reviled NRA. In short, you imply that SimpliSafe's moonbat critics have a case! In that, you are profoundly misguided!
The trickle down self hate.
Inhear the NRA itself is angry at gun owners for losing business hence their siding with ATF for help on preventing bump stocks and advising Trump there
This is a big loser because it will help fund the swamp system which is the ATT using public funds to campaign for Obama against guns just as the FBI does against Trump
ATT is evennless interested than FBI in LE
This is very true and one of the reasons the left attacks God in the first place.
The trickle down self hate.
I hear the NRA itself is angry at gun owners for losing business hence their siding with ATF for help on preventing bump stocks and advising Trump there
This is a big loser because it will help fund the swamp system which is the ATF using public funds to campaign for Obama against guns just as the FBI does against Trump
ATF is evennless interested than FBI in LE
I just finished designing a system of theirs to replace my old wired system.
Cancelled. Bye.
Nothing else will do.
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