One By One, Companies Cut Ties With The NRA

[The Barbarian]

As a groundswell grows against the National Rifle Association in the aftermath of last week’s school massacre in Parkland, Fla., several businesses say they are ending their partnerships with the gun advocacy group.

The brands — ranging from insurance companies to rental cars — all announced their decisions on Twitter, many in direct response to tweets demanding change coalesced under the trending hashtag #boycottNRA.

On Friday, Symantec, the cybersecurity company, announced via Twitter it has halted its NRA discount program.

About an hour later, the insurance company MetLife followed suit, tweeting, “We value all our customers but have decided to end our discount program with the NRA.”

A day earlier, First National Bank of Omaha announced via tweet that it “will not renew its contract with the National Rifle Association to issue the NRA Visa Card.” It was responding to a tweet saying “Please END your relationship with the @NRA. #NRABloodOnYourHands.” The bank said “customer feedback” spurred it to review its relationship with the NRA.

Later Thursday, Enterprise Holdings, which owns and operates car rental agencies Alamo, Enterprise and National, announced via tweets from each brand’s account that by March 26 it would sever its NRA member discount program.

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Company spokespeople would not elaborate on the announcements.

On Friday, Reuters reported Chubb would no longer underwrite NRA insurance for gun owners. A spokesperson told NPR that decision had been made some time ago. “Three months ago, Chubb provided notice of our intent to discontinue participation in the NRA Carry Guard insurance program under the terms of our contract,” Chubb said in a statement.

Also Friday, Wyndham Worldwide, parent company of major hotel brands including Travelodge, Howard Johnson, Ramada and Days Inn, tweeted that it “is no longer affiliated with the NRA.”

ThinkProgress reports Wyndham Worldwide stopped offering NRA discounts following a pressure campaign after the Sandy Hook shooting. “We ended our relationship with the NRA late last year,” a spokesperson told NPR.
https://www.wuft.org/nation-world/2018/02/23/one-by-one-companies-cut-ties-with-the-nra/

Congress has abdicated it's responsibilities, so citizens and businesses are stepping up. NRA finally went too far, this time.

 

[Catholic Crusader]

Morons and idiots. Thats all there is to it. The NRA is an organization that protects our Constitutional Right. The backlash will come against those companies. The NRA has 5 million members including yours truly

 

[The Barbarian]

Morons and idiots. Thats all there is to it.

It's not ideological. It's just business. The NRA is now a badly damaged brand. Businesses carefully consider whether assocating with them is beneficial or will cost them. The equation changed; the NRA has become more and more radical and ideologically offensive to most Americans.

The NRA is an organization that protects our Constitutional Right.

There's more than one of them. And it's a real concern for me, that revulsion against the NRA might damage the 2nd Amendment.

The backlash will come against those companies.

It already happened. They've done the numbers and the NRA backlash doesn't nearly match the backlash from the rest of America.

The NRA has 5 million members including yours truly

America has 323 million members. Get the picture?

 

[The Barbarian]

 

[Catholic Crusader]

My point is proven

 

[Jonahdog]

Morons and idiots. Thats all there is to it. The NRA is an organization that protects our Constitutional Right. The backlash will come against those companies. The NRA has 5 million members including yours truly

Nope, the NRA is a lobby whose goal is to sell more guns. Make more money for the gun manufacturers.
If they were really concerned about your Constitutional rights they would be rational. They are not.
They do not have the courage to do the right thing.
1. ban assault rifles. If you need one to shoot a deer, you need more time on the practice range with a 30-06 or shotgun.
2. Require expanded background checks.
3. Require permits to own a firearm, hand or long gun.

Arming teachers is ignorant. My wife is a teacher, she has a gun permit. If a shooter comes into the school she is to lock the door and hide in her classroom with her students. What would you have her do? Leave her students and go play Dirty Harry looking for the bad guy? And assuming she is well trained and does that, what if a student gets in between her and the bad guy? What if she shoots a student by mistake? What if she is off looking for the bad guy, the nutjob winds up at her classroom and opens fire?

CC your virulent hatred of common sense and rationality is stunning.

 

[Catholic Crusader]

Nope, the NRA is a lobby whose goal is to sell more guns. Make more money for the gun manufacturers........

That's an ignorant lie. You're just another leftist KoolAid drinker.

 

[The Barbarian]

Originally Posted by Jonahdog View Post
Nope, the NRA is a lobby whose goal is to sell more guns. Make more money for the gun manufacturers........

That's an ignorant lie.

Well, let's take a look...

In its early days, the National Rifle Association was a grassroots social club that prided itself on independence from corporate influence.

While that is still part of the organization's core function, today less than half of the NRA's revenues come from program fees and membership dues.

The bulk of the group's money now comes in the form of contributions, grants, royalty income, and advertising, much of it originating from gun industry sources.

Since 2005, the gun industry and its corporate allies have given between $20 million and $52.6 million to it through the NRA Ring of Freedom sponsor program. Donors include firearm companies like Midway USA, Springfield Armory Inc, Pierce Bullet Seal Target Systems, and Beretta USA Corporation. Other supporters from the gun industry include Cabala's, Sturm Rugar & Co, and Smith & Wesson.

The NRA also made $20.9 million — about 10 percent of its revenue — from selling advertising to industry companies marketing products in its many publications in 2010, according to the IRS Form 990.

Additionally, some companies donate portions of sales directly to the NRA. Crimson Trace, which makes laser sights, donates 10 percent of each sale to the NRA. Taurus buys an NRA membership for everyone who buys one of their guns. Sturm Rugar gives $1 to the NRA for each gun sold, which amounts to millions. The NRA's revenues are intrinsically linked to the success of the gun business.
http://www.businessinsider.com/gun-industry-funds-nra-2013-1

You're just another leftist KoolAid drinker.[/QUOTE]

 

[The Barbarian]

As of Tuesday, the NRA had poured $36.3 million into the 2016 election, breaking its own record of $31.7 million from just two years before, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics. Almost all of that money is devoted to independent expenditures, a bucket term for fliers, postcards, and television advertisements supporting or opposing candidates in federal elections, but not given directly to a campaign.
https://www.thetrace.org/2016/10/nra-breaks-campaign-spending-record/

 

[The Barbarian]

That year, (1934) the NRA actually lobbied for gun control legislation in the form of the 1934 National Firearms Act, which heavily taxed certain firearms and required them to be registered.

The NRA’s support for gun control continued all the way to the 1970s. The organisation supported the 1967 Mulford Act in California, which prohibited the carrying of loaded weapons in public.

However, the NRA changed its ideology in the early 70s when the arrest of an NRA member, Kenyon Ballew by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, put the organisation at loggerheads with the US government.

By the late 70s, the NRA had shifted and expanded its political influence through the creation of a Political Action Committee (PAC), which would go on to help fund politicians who were supporters of the Second Amendment.

‘Beginning in the 1970s, the NRA relentlessly promoted the view that the right to own a gun is sacrosanct,’ James Surowiecki wrote in the New Yorker.

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In the course of Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia probe, the investigation was expanded to look into whether a Russian central banker and Putin ally illegally moved money through the NRA to help Trump’s 2016 US election campaign.

Democrat Senator Ron Wyden is requesting any documents from the NRA and Steve Mnuchin’s Treasury Department that show financial links between Russia and the organisation.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5422121/What-NRA-members-does-have.html

The NRA stance on gun control changed about the time when gun manufacturers began to gain control of the organization. It wasn't a safety concern, it was just business; more gun controls, less profit.

 

[Jonahdog]

That's an ignorant lie. You're just another leftist KoolAid drinker.

Nope. NRA is simply a front for gun makers and able to BS the right wing. Would be helpful if you thought for yourself, but being a Catholic, that is tough. (I know, been there)

 

[Tambora]

Laying the blame on anyone and everyone that is not the killer.
When is the left going to learn to place the blame solely where it belongs --- on the killer?

 

[Catholic Crusader]

Laying the blame on anyone and everyone that is not the killer.
When is the left going to learn to place the blame solely where it belongs --- on the killer?

If they did then they would no longer be on the Left. LOL

.....NRA is simply a front for gun makers.......

Repeating that lie does not make it true.

........Would be helpful if you thought for yourself, but being a Catholic, that is tough.........

Ah yes, a little Catholic bashing sprinkled on top of your stupidity and ignorance. Thats par for the course.

 

[Stuu]

Laying the blame on anyone and everyone that is not the killer.
When is the left going to learn to place the blame solely where it belongs --- on the killer?

That sounds much easier.

How many killings do you think blaming will prevent?

Stuart

 

[Stuu]

Ah yes, a little Catholic bashing sprinkled on top of your stupidity and ignorance. Thats par for the course.

I wouldn't take it personally. You are a victim of Catholicism, not necessarily a culpable perpetrator of it.

Stuart

 

[Grosnick Marowbe]

Laying the blame on anyone and everyone that is not the killer.
When is the left going to learn to place the blame solely where it belongs --- on the killer?

What the far-left leaves out is the fact that our nation wouldn't be here if it wasn't for "Guns." After all, we needed guns in order to give us independence from the tyranny of 'Great Britain and its King.' If it weren't for 'guns' the USA wouldn't exist today.

 

[The Barbarian]

In spite of angry threats, still more companies are cutting ties with the NRA:

Hearing aid maker Starkey Hearing Technologies is joining other companies that have cut ties with the National Rifle Association after the latest school massacre.

The Eden Prairie, Minnesota, company announced the decision over the weekend, saying it would not renew its discount program offered to NRA members.

U.S. corporations that had partnered with the NRA for years began to distance themselves from the organization after a 17 people, mostly students, were shot at a high school in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14.

Nearly 20 companies, including Metlife, Hertz, Avis, Enterprise, Best Western, Wyndham, United Airlines, and Delta, which have ended NRA partnerships since the shooting.

The NRA has pushed back aggressively, calling the departure of its corporate partners a "shameful display of political and civic cowardice."
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/company-cuts-ties-nra-53363047

I think they've finally gone too far. An organization that once merely advocated the 2nd Amendment, has become a political mechanism to make more money for gun manufacturers.

 

[The Barbarian]

What the far-left leaves out is the fact that our nation wouldn't be here if it wasn't for "Guns." After all, we needed guns in order to give us independence from the tyranny of 'Great Britain and its King.' If it weren't for 'guns' the USA wouldn't exist today.

This is what they have left:
"If you don't let crazy people have guns, that means no one would have guns."

 

[jgarden]

What the far-left leaves out is the fact that our nation wouldn't be here if it wasn't for "Guns." After all, we needed guns in order to give us independence from the tyranny of 'Great Britain and its King.' If it weren't for 'guns' the USA wouldn't exist today.

All these mass shootings have a common denominator - semi-automatic assault type weapons and high capacity magazines that allow the shooters to just keep firing - and firing - and firing!

America doesn't have the monopoly on mentally disturbed individuals, but it does have the monopoly on the incidents of mass shootings - facilitated by military style weapons that allow just one person the firepower to kill 58 innocent bystanders and wound over 500!

Large gun retailers like Dicks and Wal-Mart aren't engaged in these self-imposed new restrictions out of the goodness of their corporate hearts - they understand the current mood of the nation far better than "Donald J," Republican politicians and the NRA and have chosen not to subject themselves to the public backlash coming from having their names being linked to the weapon used in the next mass shooting!

 

[glorydaz]

All these mass shootings have a common denominator - semi-automatic assault type weapons and high capacity magazines that allow the shooters to just keep firing - and firing - and firing!

America doesn't have the monopoly on mentally disturbed individuals, but it does have the monopoly on the incidents of mass shootings - facilitated by military style weapons that allow just one person the firepower to kill 58 innocent bystanders and wound over 500!

Large gun retailers like Dicks and Wal-Mart aren't engaged in these self-imposed new restrictions out of the goodness of their corporate hearts - they understand the current mood of the nation far better than "Donald J," Republican politicians and the NRA and have chosen not to subject themselves to the public backlash coming from having their names being linked to the weapon used in the next mass shooting!

You know these guns can be made in someone's garage, right?

Too much attention is put on the guns.

God forbid anyone would give up their privacy on social media.