Dick's Going Down

Dick’s Sporting Goods announced it would no longer sell “assault-style” firearms or high-capacity magazines after being appalled to learn that the killer at the Parkland High School shooting was found to have LEGALLY bought one of his many guns (but not one used in the shooting) in one of their stores. Immediately their sales began to slide, costing them millions, if not billions of dollars. Dick’s executives have said, “We expected the reaction might be less than positive,” showing that they are the masters of understatement. What really gets me is that they support laws that only apply to users of ILLEGAL guns, not buyers of LEGAL guns, because the bad guys usually don’t get their guns from legal sources. The laws they support never stop criminals from getting their guns ILLEGALLY. They acknowledge that legal gun buyers are usually not lawbreakers, but they are the ones they are punishing for the actions of mostly ILLEGAL gun owners. Theirs is a crappy policy, and the executives responsible should be fired. But they won’t be, because those able to fire them probably agree with their faulty thinking. (National Review)