Looks like two can play this boycott game.
While the National Rifle Association (NRA) endured months of bad publicity, unhinged rhetoric, and business boycotts in the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, one sheriff in Pennsylvania figured he’d fight back.
And it’s a fight that has only just begun.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has even been putting pressure on banks and insurers to stop doing business with the NRA.
Michael Slupe, a sheriff in Butler County Pennsylvania, is banning his department from conducting official business with any company that has cut ties with the pro-Second Amendment organization or their law-abiding members.
How One Small-Town County Is Taking on the NRA Boycotters https://t.co/3PmQP0BizI
— Santy Riberal (@andeyesay) April 18, 2018
Airlines such as United and Delta, hotels such as Wyndham accommodations, and of course, the car rental companies that started it all, Enterprise, Avis, and Hertz, are all out of luck when it comes to the sheriff’s office utilizing their services.
“Though I cannot dictate which companies you utilize in your personal life, I can and am going to dictate which companies the Butler County Sheriff’s Office will not use,” Slupe wrote in an order penned on April 3rd.
“Butler County Sheriff Michael Slupe has banned his office from conducting business with any company involved in a boycott of the NRA.” Fighting 🔥with 🔥—-way to go sheriff. “We the people” MUST do the same. @NRA
— Arlene (@savRnationTrump) April 19, 2018
“These companies made the choice to boycott the NRA for whatever their reason(s) are, so, I am making the choice not to support them,” Slupe told his department. “I believe it is important to send a message as a department that we support the members of our community that are members of the NRA that have had nothing to do with any of the shootings, yet they are the face of the blame in the eyes of corporate America.”
Slupe carved out an exception for independently owned locations, citing a Days Inn in Butler in which he knows the owner.
The Pennsylvania sheriff explains that the NRA and their members have nothing to do with these mass shootings and in fact, are the single biggest source for gun education and firearm safety programs in the country.
“I don’t believe the NRA is responsible for any of these tragedies that have occurred, as a matter of fact, the NRA is more about education and safety than any group out there,” he explained.
Republican governors in red states would do well to follow Slupe’s lead, countering Cuomo’s effort to chill Second Amendment rights of Americans by backdooring gun restrictions, and implementing their own boycott’s for government employees.
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