Cut NRA ties, take sides in culture war. That's bad for business and us.:
"Do we really want separate financial systems for Republicans and Democrats?
Because that's where we're headed if this witch hunt continues.
...Progressive activists and many in the news media have rather different priorities.
Their ire is focused squarely on a group that wasn’t tipped off, wasn’t a first responder, and had no affiliation with the attacker.
Namely, the National Rifle Association.
...But as soon as a vocal group started yelling online, many of these companies cancelled the programs — some within 24 hours. Enterprise car rental, Delta Air Lines, MetLife insurance, Symantec security software and several others abruptly abandoned their often long-standing arrangements with the NRA.
By
cowering to a day of social media pressure, these companies are punishing 5 million potential customers simply for holding a common view in American politics — that the Constitution is the law of the land.
NRA members are just a small portion of the roughly 74 million gun owners in America.
Are they to be chased out of the marketplace as well?
...The larger problem isn’t this temporary tempest.
All of these pressure campaigns accomplish nothing but alienate people based on their politics.
The result is to divide Americans into ever smaller subgroups in which we can’t sit in the same town hall or, apparently, shop in the same stores..."
