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.@CNN canceled my interview with them for a RT of an article that states actual facts in there, but for some reason they don't say a word when people call @DLoesch a child murderer, the @NRA murderers, and @marcorubio is like looking down the barrel of an AR-15 on their network.
 
tenacious said:
Yes... why go to college when you can be like Sheriff Joe and live at your parents the rest of your life.

God it really does feel like I'm going to be part of the generation that kills the notion American dream.
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In Nigeria, the group Boko Haram is a jihadi terrorist organization who preaches that western education is a sin. It’s really what these people like Joe believe. We don’t want qualified and educated people helping us form educated opinions any more. We want our emotions and corporate leaders to guide us.
 
xav10 said:
In Nigeria, the group Boko Haram is a jihadi terrorist organization who preaches that western education is a sin. It’s really what these people like Joe believe. We don’t want qualified and educated people helping us form educated opinions any more. We want our emotions and corporate leaders to guide us.
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Dope.
 
Dick’s Virtue Signaling Costs Them…Literally

Posted at 6:00 pm on March 21, 2018 by Tom Knighton

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Dick’s Sporting Goods figured it was riding the wave of public sentiment when it announced it wouldn’t sell long guns to anyone under the age of 21 following the Parkland massacre. It was a piece of corporate virtue signaling, and it automatically made them the target of ire in the firearms community.

Then again, who cares about those guys? There aren’t that many of them, right?

Weeelll…it seems that maybe they should have cared just a little.

Just weeks after halting sales of all firearms to customers under the age of 21 and banning AR-type rifles in its Field and Stream stores, retail giant Dick’s Sporting Goods announced a “deeper-than-expected” sales drop as their stock sank the most in four months, according to Fortune.

“There’s going to be some pushback and we expected that,” said CEO Edward Stack, in an earnings call with Wall Street analysts, CNN reports. “There are going to be the people who don’t shop us anymore for anything.”

Fortune is careful to tell its readers not to blame the company’s struggles on its anti-gun stance. Dick’s has struggled with “excessive inventory and deep discounting,” and it’s been unable to compete with Amazon and Nike, who have both been pushing customers to make online purchases.

Still, Fortune admits that Dick’s has no direct competition. After Sports Authority’s collapse in 2016, Dick’s became the only national chain of its kind, and investors were hopeful the company could capitalize on its singularity.

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Gun enthusiasts won’t be surprised to learn that the gun and hunting parts of Dick’s business has been “extremely soft,” according to Sam Poser, analyst for Susquehanna Financial Group. He told Fortune that Dick’s decision to limit gun sales was a “prudent decision both from a business and PR perspective,” though it’s unclear why angering a customer base would ever be a prudent business decision.

Anyone feel bad for them? Anyone? Anyone at all?

You, in the back? Oh, you were just stretching. My bad.

So no one feels bad for them. I sure don’t. They made their bed, and now they get to lie in it. They decided it was better to virtue signal than conduct business.

Fortune can try and spin this any way it wants, but there’s one inescapable fact. A company that is having trouble decided to put politics before business. Now they’re facing a lawsuit over their policy and are likely to face even more as they proceed, all because they decided to get political. They screwed up.

Even if their policy accounts for only a small percentage of the loss, it’s still a loss that was entirely avoidable. Anyone with half a brain knew what was going to happen when they made that announcement. The moment they said they would no longer sell long guns to people age 18-20 despite it being legal to do so, they knew they would anger the gun community. They knew people who valued the Second Amendment would stop shopping in their stores, and not just for gun stuff, but for anything.

They knew it, and they did it anyway, which means at least some portion of this loss is of their own making.

If Dick’s is having this much trouble, what they did is the equivalent of a guy dealing with massive credit card debt and multiple child support payments quitting his job because his boss yelled at someone else. You’re shooting yourself in the foot when you don’t have to. It’s stupid.

And it’s everything they deserve.
 
Sheriff Joe said:
Dick’s Virtue Signaling Costs Them…Literally

Posted at 6:00 pm on March 21, 2018 by Tom Knighton

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dicks-sporting-goods.jpg


Dick’s Sporting Goods figured it was riding the wave of public sentiment when it announced it wouldn’t sell long guns to anyone under the age of 21 following the Parkland massacre. It was a piece of corporate virtue signaling, and it automatically made them the target of ire in the firearms community.

Then again, who cares about those guys? There aren’t that many of them, right?

Weeelll…it seems that maybe they should have cared just a little.

Just weeks after halting sales of all firearms to customers under the age of 21 and banning AR-type rifles in its Field and Stream stores, retail giant Dick’s Sporting Goods announced a “deeper-than-expected” sales drop as their stock sank the most in four months, according to Fortune.

“There’s going to be some pushback and we expected that,” said CEO Edward Stack, in an earnings call with Wall Street analysts, CNN reports. “There are going to be the people who don’t shop us anymore for anything.”

Fortune is careful to tell its readers not to blame the company’s struggles on its anti-gun stance. Dick’s has struggled with “excessive inventory and deep discounting,” and it’s been unable to compete with Amazon and Nike, who have both been pushing customers to make online purchases.

Still, Fortune admits that Dick’s has no direct competition. After Sports Authority’s collapse in 2016, Dick’s became the only national chain of its kind, and investors were hopeful the company could capitalize on its singularity.

…

Gun enthusiasts won’t be surprised to learn that the gun and hunting parts of Dick’s business has been “extremely soft,” according to Sam Poser, analyst for Susquehanna Financial Group. He told Fortune that Dick’s decision to limit gun sales was a “prudent decision both from a business and PR perspective,” though it’s unclear why angering a customer base would ever be a prudent business decision.

Anyone feel bad for them? Anyone? Anyone at all?

You, in the back? Oh, you were just stretching. My bad.

So no one feels bad for them. I sure don’t. They made their bed, and now they get to lie in it. They decided it was better to virtue signal than conduct business.

Fortune can try and spin this any way it wants, but there’s one inescapable fact. A company that is having trouble decided to put politics before business. Now they’re facing a lawsuit over their policy and are likely to face even more as they proceed, all because they decided to get political. They screwed up.

Even if their policy accounts for only a small percentage of the loss, it’s still a loss that was entirely avoidable. Anyone with half a brain knew what was going to happen when they made that announcement. The moment they said they would no longer sell long guns to people age 18-20 despite it being legal to do so, they knew they would anger the gun community. They knew people who valued the Second Amendment would stop shopping in their stores, and not just for gun stuff, but for anything.

They knew it, and they did it anyway, which means at least some portion of this loss is of their own making.

If Dick’s is having this much trouble, what they did is the equivalent of a guy dealing with massive credit card debt and multiple child support payments quitting his job because his boss yelled at someone else. You’re shooting yourself in the foot when you don’t have to. It’s stupid.

And it’s everything they deserve.
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Fake News you idiot.

This bullshit is from a pro-gun site, the 6 month performance of DKS is 23% compared to 6.8% for the broad market.
 
Wez said:
Fake News you idiot.

This bullshit is from a pro-gun site, the 6 month performance of DKS is 23% compared to 6.8% for the broad market.
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Joe doesn’t like facts. When presented with them, he says “fake news.” He prefers fake facts as his news.
 
Wez said:
Fake News you idiot.

This bullshit is from a pro-gun site, the 6 month performance of DKS is 23% compared to 6.8% for the broad market.
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How about this?
Dick's CEO Ramps Up Gun Control Push As Company Suffers 'Deeper-Than-Expected' Losses
"There are going to be the people who don’t shop us anymore for anything."
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ByJames Barrett
March 22, 2018
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Despite acknowledging on CNN last week that his decision to embrace the gun control movement will result in "people who don’t shop us anymore for anything," Dick's Sporting Goods CEO Edward Stack entrenched his company even further in the divisive debate this week by penning an op-ed for The Washington Post in which he called on Congress "to do something about guns."

"As a gun owner, I support the Second Amendment and understand why, for many, the right to bear arms is as American as baseball and apple pie," he wrote. "But I also agree with what Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in his majority opinion in 2008’s landmark Heller case: 'Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited.' It is 'not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.'"

"It is clear we have a problem with the gun laws in this country. They are not squarely focused on keeping all of us safe — especially our children," he continued. "There continue to be mass shootings — at our schools, churches and entertainment venues. Following each of these senseless, tragic events there’s a great deal of idle, fruitless talk in the halls of Congress, and then the conversation quickly comes to an end."

Stack's op-ed comes amid troubling financial reports for his sporting goods franchise. As highlighted by Fortune last week, Dick's is seeing a "deeper-than-expected" slow-down in sales basically across the board. Though Fortune stresses that it's not gun sales that are really hurting the company, citing competition from online vendors as the key problem, it acknowledges that the company's very public gun control stance is coloring consumers' perspective.

"Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc. has vowed to limits sales of guns. Its problem, however, is poor sales of everything else," Fortune reports. "Only weeks after winning accolades from gun-control advocates for ending sales of assault rifles at its Field & Stream stores, Dick’s posted a deeper-than-expected sales decline. Its stock sank the most in four months Tuesday in the wake of the quarterly report, which reflected struggles with excess inventory and deep discounting."

So how bad are the numbers?

Shares of Dick’s fell as much as 7.3 percent to $30.19 in New York, the biggest intraday decline since mid-November. They had climbed 13 percent this year through Monday’s close. ... Same-store sales, a key metric, fell 2 percent in the period. Analysts had estimated a drop of 1.2 percent, according to Consensus Metrix. E-commerce sales rose 9 percent.

Interviewed by CNN last week about his company's struggles, Stack said, “There’s going to be some pushback and we expected that. There are going to be the people who don’t shop us anymore for anything." Limiting gun sales beyond legal limits is "not going to be positive from a traffic standpoint and a sales standpoint," he admitted.
 
Sheriff Joe said:
How about this?
Dick's CEO Ramps Up Gun Control Push As Company Suffers 'Deeper-Than-Expected' Losses
"There are going to be the people who don’t shop us anymore for anything."
gettyimages-450371715.jpg

Ron Antonelli/Bloomberg via Getty Images
ByJames Barrett
March 22, 2018
19k views
Despite acknowledging on CNN last week that his decision to embrace the gun control movement will result in "people who don’t shop us anymore for anything," Dick's Sporting Goods CEO Edward Stack entrenched his company even further in the divisive debate this week by penning an op-ed for The Washington Post in which he called on Congress "to do something about guns."

"As a gun owner, I support the Second Amendment and understand why, for many, the right to bear arms is as American as baseball and apple pie," he wrote. "But I also agree with what Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in his majority opinion in 2008’s landmark Heller case: 'Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited.' It is 'not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.'"

"It is clear we have a problem with the gun laws in this country. They are not squarely focused on keeping all of us safe — especially our children," he continued. "There continue to be mass shootings — at our schools, churches and entertainment venues. Following each of these senseless, tragic events there’s a great deal of idle, fruitless talk in the halls of Congress, and then the conversation quickly comes to an end."

Stack's op-ed comes amid troubling financial reports for his sporting goods franchise. As highlighted by Fortune last week, Dick's is seeing a "deeper-than-expected" slow-down in sales basically across the board. Though Fortune stresses that it's not gun sales that are really hurting the company, citing competition from online vendors as the key problem, it acknowledges that the company's very public gun control stance is coloring consumers' perspective.

"Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc. has vowed to limits sales of guns. Its problem, however, is poor sales of everything else," Fortune reports. "Only weeks after winning accolades from gun-control advocates for ending sales of assault rifles at its Field & Stream stores, Dick’s posted a deeper-than-expected sales decline. Its stock sank the most in four months Tuesday in the wake of the quarterly report, which reflected struggles with excess inventory and deep discounting."

So how bad are the numbers?

Shares of Dick’s fell as much as 7.3 percent to $30.19 in New York, the biggest intraday decline since mid-November. They had climbed 13 percent this year through Monday’s close. ... Same-store sales, a key metric, fell 2 percent in the period. Analysts had estimated a drop of 1.2 percent, according to Consensus Metrix. E-commerce sales rose 9 percent.

Interviewed by CNN last week about his company's struggles, Stack said, “There’s going to be some pushback and we expected that. There are going to be the people who don’t shop us anymore for anything." Limiting gun sales beyond legal limits is "not going to be positive from a traffic standpoint and a sales standpoint," he admitted.
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I know it's hard for the spineless such as yourself to imagine but some people have and stand by their standards . . . it's what made America great, backbone and integrity.
 
xav10 said:
Joe doesn’t like facts. When presented with them, he says “fake news.” He prefers fake facts as his news.
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Joe is just a troll, a small minded troll. He has no beliefs, no backbone, no integrity and no friends, why else would he put so much time and effort into his trolling habit?
 
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