The National Rifle Association is getting burned by businesses after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, last week.
So far, two business partners have dropped the NRA from their roster. The First National Bank of Omaha said in a tweet on Thursday that because of “customer feedback,” the bank will cease issuing its NRA Visa card after its contract with the pro-gun lobbying group expires. And Enterprise Holdings — which operates the car rental companies Enterprise, Alamo, and National — told reporters on Thursday that it would no longer offer a discount to NRA members.
For many years, the powerful lobbying group has struck partnerships with companies to offer NRA members discounts on a variety of services. Some of its existing partners include Hertz, FedEx, and the anti-virus software maker Norton.
Bloomberg found some others:
On Friday, LifeLock owner Symantec, Hertz, North American and Allied Van Lines, and insurer MetLife announced they would break off from the NRA. “Symantec has stopped its discount program with the National Rifle Association,” a spokesperson said in an emailed statement. A MetLife spokesman said “we value all our customers but have decided to end our discount program with the NRA.” Security systems maker Simplisafe Inc. also dropped the gun group today.
There are also some businesses that are not quite ready to bail on the NRA, but are putting them on notice.
Courtesy of Raw Story:
The world’s largest asset manager put U.S. gunmakers on notice on Thursday that it is no longer business as usual in the wake of a shooting that killed 17 at a Florida high school.
BlackRock Inc said it will speak with weapons manufacturers and distributors “to understand their response” to the second-deadliest shooting at a public school in U.S. history, putting pressure on companies such as Sturm Ruger & Company Inc and American Outdoor Brands Corp.
BlackRock is the largest shareholder in both gunmakers and has more than $6 trillion in assets under management. It stopped short of saying it would divest its funds of gun companies, however.
Well I think it's time to push for even more boycotts, don't you?
Not only should we refuse to do business with any companies that have advertising deals with the NRA, but we should also refuse to vote for any candidates that accept NRA money.
That would almost strip them of their influence overnight.
Well after the elections this year at least.
Violence of any kind is for stupid c#nts.
ReplyDeleteI am a little confused. It's okay to refuse to do business with because of gun beliefs, but not okay to refuse to do business because of sex beliefs?
DeleteI caught up on my reading this morning. And I came away with huge hope for Our Country.
ReplyDeleteWe The People are awake and alive and fighting for justice.
There will be a parade. That parade will be of celebration for We The People, For Our Constitution, For Our Bill of Rights. For Our Pledge of Allegiance to Our Country.
Yes we are the greatest national on Earth.
The beacon of Hope, The Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island. Our parade will include Our Military, Our Law Enforcement, Our agencies like the FBI, CIA, etc.
It will be a celebration that we will Win the fight against treason, traitors, attacks and hacks. I am a proud American today with Hope for a Great America in the future.
Everyone here and across this beautiful Country and World have fought hard the last couple years to expose and demand justice.
There are many sites to Thank for taking action. This site considered The Last Frontier in my list warned us in 08 of a few souls to watch out for. Thanks G for the miles of postings and providing a place to debate and comment.
Yep a parade and a wall that if all prevails will be seen by those behind the big huge WALLs of prison. As they serve their sentence for Treason, Conspiracy, Espionage and many other crimes against innocent souls.
Peace and Love to all that helped.
As someone stated in an earlier post, there's 5 million NRA members and 300 million+ residents.
ReplyDeleteEarth to Humpty Trumpty, his advisers, and the congress of baboons that take NRA donations: Arming teachers is fucking stupid as are you.
Not to denigrate your comment, 5:17, but the figure I heard was 14 million. Still, that's minor compared to 300+ million.
DeleteI stand corrected, Leland.
DeleteThank you.
That Dana woman said she represents 5 million members,i heard 1% of population,
DeleteNot all of their members are active members and not all of their members agree with their policies, especially when it comes to politics.
DeleteI've heard of members that paid for the lifetime membership contacting the NRA and requesting they be dropped from the membership rolls because of it. It happened after Sandy Hook. I'm sure they lost members after Las Vegas and are now after their stance on Parkland. There are some responsible hunters with integrity that just can't stomach being associated with the NRA any more.
Hertz and Delta Airlines are done now too.
ReplyDeleteThis is all good news, but I suppose the NRA might still be able to count on Russia for millions of dollars in illegal contributions.
ReplyDeleteHAHA. Not if Mueller finds what he is looking for!
DeleteThey can survive with nothing but the kickbacks from the gun manufacturers they shill for. But they still need members to threaten their puppet politicians with.
DeleteI read a post on Facebook yesterday and I'm sorry I cannot remember who posted it.
ReplyDeleteMake it so gun owners are required to carry liability insurance.
The insurance industry would crush the NRA.
HeidiWY
Why didn't these businesses start dropping the NRA after Sandy Hook? Or Las Vegas? Or Orlando?
ReplyDeletePublic pressure. For a variety of reasons, including the brave and savvy teen-agers who are making their voices heard, there's momentum against the NRA this time that didn't bubble up previously.
Delete4:15, there is a FAR less crude and much less sexist way of saying that and it has been around a LONG time: Violence is the last resort of the incompetent.
ReplyDeleteSorry, but this should have been a reply to the first comment, made by 4:15.
DeleteLeland 6:43 AM wrote: … it has been around a LONG time
DeleteSince about 1942, in Isaac Asimov‛s short story “Foundation‟, later renamed “The Encyclopedists‟.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#Foundation_%281951%29
“Violence,” came the retort, “is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
Part II, The Encyclopedists, section 5; This also appears three times in "Bridle and Saddle" which is titled "The Mayors" within Foundation. It is derived from the famous phrase by Samuel Johnson: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" and from the words of Lady Anne Bellamy in H. Rider Haggard's Dawn, “I do not believe in violence; it is the last resource of fools.” Asimov is usually quoted simply with "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
I think Heinlein borrowed it too. I think Lazarus Long says Violence is the last refuge of the mentally incompetent.
DeleteBREAKING: Delta Airlines(@Delta) has just ended their contract with the @NRA that provided discounts to NRA members, and demanded that the NRA remove their information form their website!
ReplyDelete#BoycottNRA
https://twitter.com/EdKrassen/status/967397295699480578
Delta joins growing list of companies (15 so far!) that cut ties w/ the NRA after the mass school shooting in Florida.
@Enterprise
@Alamo
@NationalPro
@FNBOmaha
@symantec
@LifeLock
@SimpliSafe
@MetLife
@Chubb
@Hertz
@Avis
@alliedvl
@northAmericanVL
@TrueCar
@Delta
https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/967408491303489538
This is a game changer, it’s an op-ed written by Republican Rep Brian Mast, a veteran who lost both legs in Kandahar. He supports our push to #BanAssaultWeapons.
“I’m Republican. I Appreciate Assault Weapons. And I Support a Ban.”
https://twitter.com/funder/status/967258944581324801
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BoycottNRA
Amazon needs to remove NRATV from its streaming service. It should be known as HATETV instead as that is what it promotes.
ReplyDeleteAlso AppleTV and YouTube.
DeleteI am personally appalled that a life insurance company (MetLife) would have special deals for members of the NRA. How many people have died in this country because of guns and, especially, because of military assault weapons in the hands of, to put it kindly, crazy people? In my opinion, insurance rates for the owners of any kind of gun/rifle and its accoutrements should be prohibitively expensive. And those owners should also have to carry very expensive liability insurance.
ReplyDeleteBeaglemom
To own a car, you must have insurance, at least liability, but a free for all with guns. Tell me how this makes sense.
DeleteThey offer group discounts to all sorts of groups that have the numbers to make it pay.
DeleteHowever, they are no longer affiliated with the NRA. Not any more. Bottom line and all that. They'd lose more business staying with the NRA than they'd gain from the NRA.
That's the bottom line for all of these companies. It's how we have to work change now. Follow the money and threaten to cut it off.
Years ago tweet:
ReplyDeleteDana Loesch
@DLoesch
Teenagers piss me off.
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No doubt that they still do.
This kid is amazing!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/parkland-survivor-snaps-back-nras-top-lobbyist-violence-create-guns-sell/
'United is notifying the NRA that we will no longer offer a discounted rate to their annual meeting and we are asking that the NRA remove our information from their website.'
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/united/status/967420501017747457
Robert Reich shreds NRA’s ‘stranglehold on GOP’ that is turning America into ‘a killing field’
ReplyDelete...“In the wake of another horrific mass shooting, we must not remain silent as America turns into a killing field,” Prof. Reich explained. “Gun laws save lives. Consider the federal assault weapons ban. After it became law in 1994, gun massacres fell by 37 percent. The number of people dying from mass shootings fell by 43 percent. But when Republicans in Congress let the ban lapse in 2004, gun massacres more than doubled.”
“The Second Amendment was never intended to permit mass slaughter,” Reich continued. “The Supreme Court has upheld reasonable restrictions on gun ownership, but the NRA and the firearms industry continue to invoke the Second Amendment to stall action on gun violence.”
“More guns have not, and will not, make us safer. There are few ideas more harebrained than the notion that we’d be more secure if everyone was armed,” he explained.
“The vast majority of Americans want stronger gun safety laws,” Reich noted. “There are few things Americans agree on as clearly as gun safety.”
The professor also had tough words for the NRA.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/robert-reich-shreds-nras-stranglehold-gop-turning-america-killing-field/
Bank of America reviewing financial relationships with manufacturers who make assault weapons: report
ReplyDelete...Beginning what could become a widespread financial squeeze on gun manufacturers, Bank of America says in a statement to Axios that it is reexamining its relationship with banking clients who make AR-15s.
"We are joining other companies in our industry to examine what we can do to help end the tragedy of mass shootings, and an immediate step we’re taking is to engage the limited number of clients we have that manufacture assault weapons for non-military use to understand what they can contribute to this shared responsibility."
— Statement from Bank of America
https://www.axios.com/corporate-america-flexes-against-guns-1519482689-612f054b-6ea4-487b-b7fe-7bd36db6b446.html
In Florida, a dramatic shift on guns
https://www.axios.com/in-florida-a-dramatic-shift-on-guns-1519488606-544d4f4e-721c-4907-831a-38fb75a02120.html
Gun owners freaking out over Trump’s ‘betrayal’ of pushing bump stock ban and new gun regulations
https://miami.cbslocal.com/2018/02/24/trump-talks-new-gun-measures/
Here is the frantic call that one concerned woman made to the FBI about Florida shooter Nikolas Cruz
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/frantic-call-one-concerned-woman-made-fbi-florida-shooter-nikolas-cruz/
Oh, now that is really going to hurt if the gun manufacturers can't get credit from major banks.
DeleteI never thought I'd say it but good for Bank of America.
NRA-tied Ted Cruz panics as surging opponent crushes him in fundraising
ReplyDeleteCruz has been doing the NRA's bidding, and it's coming back to haunt him.
Texas Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke is crushing his opponent, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in fundraising.
In the most recent federal filings, Cruz pulled in $800,000 while O’Rourke nearly tripled that with a $2.3 million haul.
But beyond the top line numbers, there is more trouble for Cruz: He has spent $1.2 million, far above the amount he raised.
“The grassroots momentum of our people-powered campaign has shown its full force across the state in the first 45 days of 2018, and it will continue to do so as Texans prove they’re more than a match for the PACs and special interests,” O’Rourke declared in a statement on his campaign’s success.
The response from Cruz’s campaign has been notably different: “This is serious.”
In 2012, Cruz easily won his election by 16 percent, even as Democrats won nationally under President Barack Obama.
But with polls showing O’Rourke within single digits of him, and Cruz attaching himself to the unpopular Trump, the race has been rated only “likely” Republican instead of a “solid” seat.
https://shareblue.com/nra-texas-ted-cruz-beto-orourke-fundraising/
LOL. Couldn't happen to a more deserving guy.
DeleteNow if the same could be done to Marco Rubio.....
Especially if it were a Marjory Stoneman Douglas graduate.
Delta and United Airlines are out.
ReplyDeleteAlready out are: Enterprise, National, Alamo, Hertz, Avis, Budget, Simplisafe, Met Life, North American Van Lines, Chubb, Symantec, Norton, Allied Van Lines, Wild Apricot, Teledoc.
Think Progress has a list of all companies offering NRA discounts and such.
https://thinkprogress.org/corporations-nra-f0d8074f2ca7/
One of the reasons you buy into a membership is the perks. Once those are gone, there's no reason for some people to join. I can get more discounts with AAA or AARP so what am I getting for my $40 a year? If the answer is just a newsletter or magazine then that isn't much incentive.
Best Western and Wyndham are out. I guess this was the last straw as they were pressured to drop the NRA after Sandy Hook.
DeleteSo it's okay to refuse service to people for their belief in gun rights, but it's not okay to to refuse people for their belief in gay rights? I believe this is a slippery slope.
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