Dicks Sporting goods took down all the scary looking guns!

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Seen a post on facebook saying Dicks Sporting Goods took their assault rifles down and not for sale anymore. Girlfriend and I were out shopping and I said I wanted to stop by Dicks to see and sure enough, Not a single assault weapon was on display. So I asked the guy behind the counter I said hey where the cool guns go? He looked at me and only smiled but didn't say anything so I said no im serious where are they all? He looked to see if anyone was around and said "im not suppose to comment about the" Then he opened up to me and said this bull**** that this happened and his dad is a big gun collector that people are driving everywhere to get what they can now!!!!!
 
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Jyezahn said:
These are the kinds of things that businesses will be remembered for. Preempting anything official because of media outcry that "this is bad".
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Smith and Wesson almost went belly up after they sold out to Clinton. Civilian sales dropped to virtually zero overnight. If it hadn't been for government contracts they probably would not have survived.

Also, the holding company that owns the makes of Bushmaster and selling it because of a threat from the California Teachers Union's thread to pull out all of their investments. The union is the largest single investor the holding company has.
 
Majorlk said:
Smith and Wesson almost went belly up after they sold out to Clinton. Civilian sales dropped to virtually zero overnight. If it hadn't been for government contracts they probably would not have survived.

Also, the holding company that owns the makes of Bushmaster and selling it because of a threat from the California Teachers Union's thread to pull out all of their investments. The union is the largest single investor the holding company has.
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I wonder if a school bus driver were to snap and run one of those big yellow buses off an overpass, killing 30 students and 4 or 5 teachers, would they look at the bus manufacturer as the enemy and pull out? (I know, to be fair, buses aren't made to kill. But still, such a stigma on guns and not on mentally ill people)
 
Jyezahn said:
I wonder if a school bus driver were to snap and run one of those big yellow buses off an overpass, killing 30 students and 4 or 5 teachers, would they look at the bus manufacturer as the enemy and pull out? (I know, to be fair, buses aren't made to kill. But still, such a stigma on guns and not on mentally ill people)
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Never happen.
 
Gun attacks

Folks

The media and politicians are advancing their agenda on the 20 children who lost their lives in this senseless tradegy. My prayers go out to all families affected by this.

Now my question, if the perpetrator would have deliberately drove a Ford SUV into a bus load of children and left behind a note stating his intentions, would the media be calling for a ban on Ford SUV's and would all the Ford dealers be pulling those vehicles off the sales lots? This is what we need to combat this gun control outcry, simple logic. There were numerous laws broken by this perpetrator, yet they did not nor will they ever stop a sick minded individual.

I am a teacher and believe that the students and teachers need protection in the schools, not by creating gun free zones for easy targets, but by allowing someone well trained to carry in schools. I agree that most teachers are far left, but there are some, like me, who believe that the second admendment is an individual right. Pelosi and company have no clue about finding the real cause of all of these recent killings.

As far as Dick's is concerned, I will take my business elsewhere. All businesses try to ride the fence and be polictically correct as to not offend the majority.

Kelly
 
Jyezahn said:
I wonder if a school bus driver were to snap and run one of those big yellow buses off an overpass, killing 30 students and 4 or 5 teachers, would they look at the bus manufacturer as the enemy and pull out?
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I did a little research the other night: There are approximately 200 million handguns in the US, and last year there were 30,000 deaths and about 200,000 injuries due to handguns. But there are also only 62 million registered vehicles, with 40,000 deaths and 2.9 million injured due to them. 3 times as many handguns cause only 3/4 the number of deaths and less than 1/10 the injured.

Yes, I agree that cars are a "necessary" evil, while handguns could certainly be construed as unnecessary. The point is that we have ALWAYS been willing to overlook deaths in support of the greater cause. Problem here is that many will argue that gun ownership is not a greater cause.

What everyone needs to keep in sight incoming up with new legislation or restriction is whether any actual or proposed legislation would really eliminate the possibility of a shooting such as in CT.
 
I was at Dicks yesterday to purchase ammo. I was given a sarcastic look at the main check out counter.

So now it's not politically correct to sell so called assault riles by a major retail outlet.
 
To Scapegoat

Jetpilot007 said:
I was at Dicks yesterday to purchase ammo. I was given a sarcastic look at the main check out counter.

So now it's not politically correct to sell so called assault ri(f)les by a major retail outlet.
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The self-serving will invariably seek a Scapegoat. It would seem, if true, this company is joining the Scapegoating band wagon. This should hardly be a "big" surprise to any of us as it is well precedented in history... "Then the man (Adam) said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.” Thus, it continues.

"Scapegoating (from the verb "to scapegoat") is the practice of singling out any party (or thing) for unmerited negative treatment or blame as a scapegoat". A tried and true political tool. :(
 
Logic and stats do not enter into the anti-gun impulse or emotion.
May as well beat your head against the wall as petition the white house or boycott Dicks.
Dicks is playing CYA for fear a TV camera will show up in the store or a headline like "Weapon used in school massacre can be purchased at sporting goods chain". Right or not, that's just the way it is.
 
Why buy a tactical rifle from an outdoors shop anyway?

Buy it from a reputable dealer and you'd probably get a better price anyway.

KBK
 
The only Dicks I know of is located in San Antonio, at The Rim shopping center. I was in there a couple months ago. Their shoe section alone was over 10X the size of their gun related section. The shooting part of the store was a very small fraction of the rest of the merchandise. Dicks could take all the guns and ammo out and it probably would not be missed. I imagine company management is trying to be socially consicious and sensitive. I know based on the one Dicks store I know of, it is not a place I would go looking a either a good buy, or a good selection on guns or ammo.
 
Hi Guys & Gals....really didn't notice that they did as I have never gone in to buy guns or supplies from them.....However if Cabela's stops were in trouble :eek:
 
My local Dicks has a great hunting dept. staff who are all shooters/hunters themselves so I know they're not happy with what's going on.

I got my M&P T there a couple months ago for a great price so the store definitely has/had a place in the AR community.
 
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