{"id":32252,"date":"2022-06-11T15:36:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T15:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=32252"},"modified":"2022-06-11T15:36:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T15:36:24","slug":"anti-rights-ceos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=32252","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Rights CEOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2956,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.goodhillpress.com\\\/2022\\\/06\\\/ceos-calling-for-gun-bans.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2957,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.ceosforgunsafety.org\\\/pages\\\/2022-letter?utm_source=join1440&amp;utm_medium=email&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>My good friend <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodhillpress.com\/2022\/06\/ceos-calling-for-gun-bans.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Liston Matthews just put out a post about anti-rights CEOs.<\/a><\/strong> It seems a number of corporate CEOs thought it was a great idea to engage in virtue signaling post-Buffalo and post-Uvalde.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Here is a\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ceosforgunsafety.org\/pages\/2022-letter?utm_source=join1440&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">list<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0of CEO&#8217;s who are gun banners. Not surprisingly, it includes the CEO&#8217;s of Dick&#8217;s Sporting Goods and Levi&#8217;s. Most of these I am unfamiliar with.\u00a0<\/p><p>Why is it that people can&#8217;t understand that we have a criminal violence problem?\u00a0<strong>IF<\/strong>\u00a0they were able to ban production from today forward, there is something on the order of half a billion firearms extant in the United States. Those won&#8217;t go away.\u00a0<\/p><p>And, btw, how well has their drug ban worked?<\/p><p>And, btw, how well did their alcohol ban work?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>As I noted about Wild Turkey bourbon and rye, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2022\/06\/08\/gun-control-matthew-mcconaughey-and-wild-turkey.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I have made the choice not to purchase their product<\/a><\/strong> so long as Matthew McConaughey is their Creative Director. So it is with the products put out by the companies of these CEOs. I do certainly recognize that often we do have a choice about using their product. The companies for which we labor have made that choice and we have to reluctantly go along with it. However, where you do have a choice, I would say there are usually many other viable options in the market. <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My good friend Liston Matthews just put out a post about anti-rights CEOs. 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