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With firearms so prevalent in recent media and here on TAH, our own Poetrooper penned a rather tongue-in-cheek article about a national sporting goods chain and their odd business model, which continues to baffle me. <\/p>\n
Anyway, Poe’s usual outlet spiked his work immediately, no sense of humor, so he comes to us instead. Not that we at TAH have lower standards, we’re just more relaxed overall, and most I would imagine are pretty much in agreement with Poe. <\/p>\n
See for your self.<\/p>\n
Poetrooper<\/strong><\/p>\n The NRA\u2019s American Rifleman has an article<\/a> reporting that Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods, a national purveyor of all things outdoors is doubling down on its year-old, virtue-signaling move to remove firearms from its retail locations in response to pressures from liberal gun grabbers. This they are doing in spite of declining sales and earnings after last year\u2019s loudly trumpeted move to show how in step they are with 2d Amendment deniers. With sales down by more than 3% in same-store reporting, Dick\u2019s has decided that such a small decline wasn\u2019t sufficient to establish them as real dicks so they\u2019ve now decided to restrict firearms sales even more by announcing that they will stop selling these evil instruments of death in another 125 of their 850 stores. Poe is such an introvert- he really should come out of his shell on occasion, and tell us how he really feels.
\nWhich immediately begs the question: if these scary black instruments are tools of the devil in those 125 stores, why are they not equally insidious instruments of murderous evil in all of Dick\u2019s stores? What\u2019s with Dick\u2019s dicking around like this? What? Is this the limited modified hangout version of virtue-signaling? It would appear that those dicks at Dick\u2019s are engaged in developing their moral code predicated on zip codes, gradually and incrementally signaling their liberal, social justice virtue by store location. \u201cHere at Dick\u2019s we\u2019re so damn high-minded we\u2019ll piously refuse to sell you a firearm in this store conveniently located for your local shopping but we\u2019ll happily sell you all the scary black guns, magazines and ammo you require if you will but drive a short distance to one of our stores more distant from an activist college campus.\u201d Now that\u2019s a well thought out and morally justifiable strategy that will certainly deter the masses of deranged mass shooters.
\nGood grief! How on earth did Dick\u2019s manage to get so many dicks assembled in their executive suites? Do the HR people at Dick\u2019s have a series of psychological tests to administer to potential executives to determine if one is sufficiently dick-brained to lead all the dicks at Dick\u2019s? What I really find amazing is, in the face of all this dicking around with the company\u2019s financial future, how many clueless dicks out there are still holding on to shares of Dick’s<\/a>. If the same-store sales figures continue to decline as they did this past year, those dicks are thoroughly and truly dicked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n*grin*
\nThanks, Poe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"