Come Heller high water…
- Well, I’m now a Dick’s Sporting Goods customer for life. The company announced this week it would no longer sell assault-style rifles in the wake of the Florida massacre. The company’s CEO wrote: “Our thoughts and prayers are with all of the victims and their loved ones. But thoughts and prayers are not enough. We have tremendous respect and admiration for the students organizing and making their voices heard regarding gun violence in schools and elsewhere in our
country. We have heard you. The nation has heard you. We support and respect the Second Amendment, and we recognize and appreciate that the vast majority of gun owners in this country are responsible, law-abiding citizens. But we have to help solve the problem that’s in front of us. Gun violence is an epidemic that’s taking the lives of too many people, including the brightest hope for the future of America – our kids. Following all of the rules and laws, we sold a shotgun to the Parkland shooter in November of 2017. It was not the gun, nor type of gun, he used in the shooting. But it could have been.” That’s powerful, courageous stuff. Thank you, Dick’s. May other retailers follow suit. The NRA won’t budge and Congress is useless, so ending the U.S.’s “Slaughter Era” is ultimately going to take the combined passion of teens, companies like Dick’s, and, yes, responsible gun owners. A bit of my faith in humanity is restored. - Is it possible this year’s Detroit Tigers squad could be worse than the historically bad 2003 team that set an American League record with 119 losses? I think it’s very possible. You’re thinking, “No way, we have Cabrera.” Yeah, well Cabrera hit .249 with 16 home runs and 60 RBI last year. In 2003, Dmitri Young was the team’s best hitter. He hit .297, with 29 home runs and 85 RBI. In looking at both rosters, I’d take the 2003 team’s offense and defense over the current team’s. I’d give the edge, however, to this year’s pitching staff, which is bad, but not nearly as wretched as the 2003 crew.
- Can we be done, please, with the term “crush”? Terms don’t seem to play out and disappear as fast as they used to. If I hear one more millennial say they’re going to “crush” their workout, I may throw up on them, after which I can say I “crushed” my nausea.
- How come there are so few (no?) fast-food Thai food takeout places. I want drive-thru Thai, dang it. Daddy’s got a hankering.
- A new survey says non-smokers should get more vacation days so they get as much time off as smokers, who spend hours a day outside smoking. Count me in. That’s always struck me as grossly unfair. I once told my boss at the newspaper that I was addicted to sarcasm and needed to go indulge my habit on the loading dock with all the smokers so I had a captive audience. For some reason, she wasn’t thrilled at the idea. Neither were the smokers.
- So I’m beginning to think this spate of non-crappy to almost decent weather we’ve had the past two weeks is a harbinger of an early spring. This is, of course, Mother Nature’s cue to disabuse me of such silly notions. I apologize in advance for the mammoth blizzard we’re about to receive as a result of my impertinence. Spring doesn’t arrive early in Michigan. I know that.
- “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do.” – Amelia Earhart.
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CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods Edward W, Stack nailed it, kudos to him and his company for standing up and doing the right thing for the country.
Yes! Never shopped there, will now. Add the brave teens who are working for desperately needed change and faith is getting restored.
Andy better hold your honors for Dick’s sporting goods. After the Sandy Hook shooting Dick’s took all there assult style weapons off the selfs . Only to start re- selling them after all the anger settled down.
Walmart is already following Dick’s example and raising the age to purchase ammunition as well.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/walmart-raises-gun-age-requirement_us_5a973dd2e4b09c872bb108e0
This is what I don’t get though “The retail giant decided to change its firearms policy “in light of recent events,”.
Where were they the last 20 years?
Money Fred. It’s all about money. In light of all the companies distancing themselves from the NRA. It’s the fashionable thing to do.
Dick’s Sporting Goods stock price has been on a steep downward trend for over a year. They are desperate to try and attract non spending libs. It won’t work. They are going in the crapper.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for Andy Heller to post proof of purchase with receipt of any supposed Dick’s purchases. He won’t. It’s really funny to see a company trying to rely on being saved from bankruptcy by appealing to beta male libs.
What’s your take on WalMarts move to stop selling guns and ammo to under 21 years of age? Don’t think they are going anywhere soon do you?
Working Dad thinks he’ s an Alpha. LOL.
He likes to think that. Haha
Working Dad would like us to believe he knows the Greek alphabet.
So dad there’s another one to add to your list. Kroger is following suit at all its Fred Meyers stores. Same as Dicks and Walmart. NRA should be getting worried.
On top of that Trump says he wants to take guns away from people first, then get the court order. I thought that was Obama’s thing.
Hey, Daddy! Did you see what your pal Trump’s ignorant, ill-conceived words and actions on tariffs did to the US stock market today? (Trump killed the stock market today. I was just Trump, his own direct fault.)
Protectionism does not work. We need free trade. How did your stocks do today?
Should say, IT was just Trump.
Got another one stopping gun and ammo to under 21. LLbean. It won’t solve the problem but it’s something!
Developing now: Shots fired on forth floor at CMU. I wonder if he is under 21.
Just reported he is 19
A 19 year old drug addict murdered his parents when the arrived to pick him up from school for break.
Following the Detroit Tigers this year probably will be a lot of fun. Nobody expects anything, so we can celebrate every good thing they do. In recent prior years, when they failed, I was utterly frustrated. My attitude was, “These guys are supposed to be good. Why can’t they score when they need to, or get outs when they need them?”
This year, we expect the worst, so we cannot be disappointed. But we will rejoice every time they play well. It already is fun just to hear them on the radio, in the background. The soundtrack of my life.
Andrew, may we still say things such as, “I have a CRUSH on Melania?” Or, “Donald had a CRUSH on Stormy?”
How about orange crush as in soda?
How about Orange Crush, as in Trump’s preposterous mullet haircut?
As Dave Cobb posted earlier about Dick’s announcing that they will not sell “assault style” guns.
He said that they said something after Sandy Hook about not selling certain types of guns. Then after a few months they quietly reversed policy and start selling again. Whether Dick’s keeps this policy or not we will have to wait a few months. As for Walmart and others doing the same let them make it so.
Like a number ignorant liberal ideas it sounds good but it does nothing to help solve the problem.
As one meme I saw on a conservative web site stated ” Walmart and Dick’s announcing that they are restricting gun sales means a nice boost in sales for local gun stores”.
As for these companies that have announced that they are cancelling their discounts to members of the NRA. Well NRA members are responding by basically saying “okay, it is your right to not do business with us, but it is also our right to no longer use your services. Therefore we will take our business to other companies that provide the service that you no longer want to provide to us.”
You really think that limiting sales to under 21 won’t help anything? You know it as well as the NRA change is coming. People are sick of people getting slaughtered. Why no response from theNRA other than some crap about being cowards by not doing business and giving member discounts. I think the NRA are cowards for not taking some kinda of helpful stand.
And how do you feel about “Confiscate their guns first, Due process second”? I forgot who said that, maybe you can remind me. Was it Obama?
Surely it must had been one of those Liberal/Socialists you are always warning us about.
Right now the confiscate first and worry about due process later s being used right now by various police departments across this nation now. The police are confiscating money and sometimes property with out a probable cause. The “perp ow whatever term the police use” must be guilty of a crime. It does not matter if they are innocent of any wrong doing. The “perp” is guilty of violating the law. He/she has to prove that they are innocent. They are guilty in the eyes of some DA’s.
What are these supposed guilty of? Having too much cash in their pockets. In the eyes of some DA’s and police if you are carrying too much cash, then you are dealing in illicit drugs or some other nefarious doings.
If you take a large sum of money in the form of cash out of your bank account and intend to go buy any item by paying cash for it. For some reason the police pull you over and search you and find the cash on you. The police officer can confiscate as “drug money”. For your information almost all money in the U.S. has traces of illicit narcotics on it. You are guilty of dealing drugs. You can fight to get your money/assets back, but it will be expensive. You have to prove that you are innocent. Normally a D.A. has to prove that you are guilty. In the case of asset forfeiture the burden of innocence is something that you have to prove.
Some states have attempted to enact laws to stop the police from seizing assets unless charges are filed against you. To the best of my knowledge those efforts have gone nowhere. D.A.’s like the way it is. The money is kept by them to add to their budget.
It turns out Trump CRUSHED stock markets all around the world with his talk of tariffs. Trump supposedly has an MBA degree from Wharton. (Am I wrong about that?) What a ninny!
He does and says all sorts of things he does not have to do or say, with world-girdling bad results. Even our colleague Working Dad does not defend Trump today.
Our President of the United States, the powerful man in the world, wakes up in the morning and his first thoughts are about his grudge with Alec Baldwin. Not, what can “I do for the American people?” .
I love Detroit Tigers SS Jose Iglesias, OF Mikey Mahtook, SP Michael Fulmer, and SP Daniel Norris. The rest of them may go jump in the lake. Any lake. We have plenty of lakes in Michigan.
Please watch them and support them this season. I predict at least a couple of them will be on the All-Star team. I predict the Tigers will NOT come in last. I suggest you turn on your TV, but listen to your radio, except when guest TV commentators Kirk Gibson and a couple of others show up on TV.
I really like watching Mahtook play last year. I will miss Kinsler.
I wonder if the gun nuts will boycott Walmart? Ha! What a dilemma.
Where will they go now to get their Bud Light and cheap cammo clothing?
Andy Heller – Care to post the massive amount of products you have purchased from Dick’s? Can you.post receipts that prove you made the purchases?
Or maybe your whole claim about being a loyal Dick’s customer was just fake.
Probably the last thing on his mind. One of his children is a student at CMU. Traumatic at best. I feel for all the people involved in this terrible situation. You have a person that had a legal firearm and was on the up and up but still violated campus rules about guns on campus. Just too bad.
Are you talking about the 19 year old drug addict who stole a firearm from his father and then killed both of his parents?
You have more info than everyone else? Father brought the gun on campus which is a gun free zone. No gun no murder. No one said he was a drug addict. Where did you get your info? Either way if the rules were followed it wouldn’t have happen there. You know it but will defend the wrong person as usual.
So if you own a gun and have a permit to carry its ok to break the law?
What Working Dad means is he is black, and that is his definition of black people.
The murderer’s most recent overdose incident was Thursday just one day before he murdered his parents. It has been widely reported. It is not secret by any means.
http://www.newsweek.com/central-michigan-university-shooting-suspect-james-eric-davis-jr-had-bad-829537
Too many guns, too easily accessible by the wrong people, too many potential active shooters at large for long periods of time before finally being captured.
Why does it matter if they are black, or even drug addicts? What is your point?
What is your solution?
If there was a good guy with a gun there it wouldn’t have happened. Right Dad.
Then police that apprehended him were armed.
More witness info about murderer James Eric Davis Jr.
“Davis had stopped going to class and seemed to be smoking a lot of marijuana.
“I know he dropped all his classes, cuz he’d just chill in his room and smoke weed all day he had no ambition or nothin’,” he says.”
https://www.wxyz.com/news/7-investigators-digging-into-the-background-of-cmu-shooting-suspect-james-davis
More info
http://nbc25news.com/news/local/timeline-of-incidents-events-leading-up-to-deadly-double-shooting-at-cmu
You can post all the bs you want but the gun that was brought on campus was brought on campus illegally. You can’t defend that. You say that the mentally ill cause all the carnage and the guns don’t. Gun was registered and the man had a concealed weapons permit. He broke the law. Sorry pal but you are dead wrong and you know it. Where was the good guy when the crime was committed? Happened so fast there was no time to react. So you are defending that gun owners can break the law? Sounds that way to me.
The gun was registered to his father. Read the whole story not what you want to see in your own mind. Nobody has come to the conclusion that he was on drugs or a mental illness. No law enforcement has interviewed him. Took him directly to the hospital. All the reports are speculation.
Proven fact it was his fathers service revolver.
This is a tragic family story. Apparently, the idiot kid took ahold of his dad’s pistol,and killed his parents. If his dad had not had the pistol, the kid could not have killed them in this manner. Oh my goodness! Please do not try to make political points here. Working Dad is a creep.
All you have to do is prove dad wrong and
that he is a liar and he disappears. Just like he did now.
I copied the wrong video above. You might want to remove it.
https://youtu.be/nUUrTXxbk-s
Yeah, Andrew. Please add some way for posters to edit their own posts.
I’ll look into that. Not sure if there’s a plugin for that but we’ll see.
Hellrod, A thousand years ago, I used to love commenting on the web site for HBO’s “Rome” TV show. On that site, we could edit and correct our own posts, up until the point where somebody else had commented on them. (And, of course, we could not edit other people’s posts.)
So, I believe you can do this on your site. It is not a new idea. Has been done before. Cheers! Thanks!
Everybody: With the Central Michigan University shootings, we have a clear case, an argument against guns on campus, and against the whole “Good Guys with Good Guns” argument.
This dad who was a cop went on campus with his gun. He went there to see his goofy son. The goofy son grabbed the gun, and killed his dad and mom.
That was a Bad Guy who took a gun from a Good Guy, and killed two Good Guys. That could/will happen again, any time a gun exists. Please take the guns away. Let these people try to kill one another with kitchen knives or fists or teeth. The murder rate would go way down.
Seriously, my friends… We hear about Russians trying to disrupt our USA society…
I honestly wonder whether our posting colleague Jim III might be some paid Russian disrupter. His English writing is awful, maybe like somebody who learned English in a place such as Siberia.
And! Our posting pal Working Dad has utterly ridiculous contrary-to-fact ideas. Meaner than hell. Is Working Dad maybe somebody who has been influenced by Russian propaganda to the point of murderous lunacy?
God bless America! Please be careful what you think.
Hit the nail on the head Tom. Very very true? You won’t hear from Dad because he was proven wrong many times in his previous posts. Just a troll that has been banned from many blogs using different names.
Seek help. Your paranoid delusions are harming you.
There is a very interesting development. Both Wal Mart and Dick’s Sporting Goods are being sued for refusing to sell a rifle to a 20 year old man.
Can anybody remember what happened to bakers who would not make certain cakes? Retailers don’t get to go against standing laws just because they want to be liberal, namby pamby types.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-guns-lawsuits/oregon-man-20-sues-walmart-dicks-over-raising-gun-buying-age-idUSKCN1GI2CG