Posted on 02/24/2018 9:27:19 AM PST by EdnaMode
Two airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines, announced Saturday that they are ending discounted-rate deals with the National Rifle Association, adding to a growing list of companies distancing themselves from the gun-rights lobby group as it fights a push for stricter gun control measures after a deadly high school shooting on Valentine's Day in Parkland, Fla.
"Delta is reaching out to the NRA to let them know we will be ending their contract for discounted rates through our group travel program. We will be requesting that the NRA remove our information from their website," Delta tweeted early in the morning.
Delta ✔ @Delta Delta is reaching out to the NRA to let them know we will be ending their contract for discounted rates through our group travel program. We will be requesting that the NRA remove our information from their website. 8:32 AM - Feb 24, 2018
Hours later, United Airlines issued a similar statement.
"United is notifying the NRA that we will no longer offer a discounted rate to their annual meeting and we are asking that the NRA remove our information from their website," their tweet said.
United Airlines ✔ @united United is notifying the NRA that we will no longer offer a discounted rate to their annual meeting and we are asking that the NRA remove our information from their website. 10:26 AM - Feb 24, 2018
The Florida shooting suspect, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, allegedly used a Colt AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, purchased legally, in the attack that left 17 people dead and more than a dozen more injured. The teenager, who had received marksmanship training in a Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps program supported by the NRA Foundation, also owned at least six other long guns, according to police.
After the shooting, students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have led an effort calling on lawmakers to pass restrictive gun measures. The NRA, however, has not been moved.
Speaking at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, Wayne LaPierre, the NRA's executive vice president, called for more armed school security and blamed Democrats and the media for politicizing school shootings.
Since then, starting with the First National Bank of Omaha on Thursday, a number of business have announced they are severing ties with the NRA, including MetLife, the New York-based insurer, and auto-rental service Enterprise.
I am not boycotting the the boycotters, but I am compiling a list of security concerns for my family, my employees, and for myself to use to avoid being targeted by terrorists and criminals.
I believe that there is a reasonable expectation that criminals and terrorists will use this information to target softer targets in the belief that the lack of NRA Members reduces the chance of an armed response.
The boycotters will be targeted along with their customers, it isn’t safe to do business with them.
And delta twitter chummed it up with a planned parenthood nutball afterwards. Total solidarity with baby killers.
Yawn. None of these “ties” seem particularly substantial to me. The NRA is getting new members hand over fist, and that matters way more than whatever a crappy company like United was offering. I’ll make that trade any day.
So, I just may end my relationship with the First National Bank of Omaha. I liked getting 1.5% cash back and having an additional percent of my purchase go to the NRA.
Mods, we need a permanent thread giving the list for economic targets for this war.
No Loss here, what-so-ever.
I’m diappointed at Delta. I know many former military members who are pilots that are NRA members. Now I wish when I worked for D as a reservation rep I had voted to unionize just to stick it to them!
Discriminating against NRA members is OK.
Refusing to bake a gay cake? DISCRIMINATION! GO TO JAIL.
would be nice if businesses started severing ties with planned parenthood
The movie tora tora tora comes to mind.
They have awoken a sleeping giant
(BTW, I'm an NRA member and I don't think I've ever used my membership for a discount on anything. AAA seems to be the most widely accepted.)
Are Delta and United pretending the school shooter is an NRA member?
He’s not
Rush discusses Liberals using “robot” programs to convince NRA advertisers to drop their NRA ads
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2018/02/23/mentally-ill-cnn-aims-anger-at-trump-nra/
I don’t have much of an opinion on Delta, but not flying United is like a gift.
Fascism American style.
Boycott them. Screw the left stop taking this crap.
Another couple of companies that hasn’t learned from the NFL.
rwood
We will remember the companies who want to interfere with freedom of thought.
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