Update 2- Corporate America Under Pressure to Cut Ties with NRA

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Source: CNBC/Reuters

Feb. 23 (Reuters) - Some of the biggest names in corporate America are coming under mounting pressure on Friday to cut ties with the National Rifle Association as gun safety activists intensified calls for a boycott in the wake of last week's Florida high school massacre.

The social media-fueled campaign has already led a range of corporations, from a major insurer to three car rental brands, to sever their relationships with the NRA gun rights advocacy group. Amazon.com Inc and other online streaming platforms are facing demands to change the online video channel NRATV, featuring programming produced by the group.

Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, founded after the December 2012 Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting that killed 20 first-graders, sent letters to Apple Inc, AT&T Inc, Amazon, Alphabet Inc's Google division and Roku Inc on Friday, asking them to drop NRATV from their products.

"We have been just disgusted by NRATV since its beginning," Shannon Watts, the group's founder, said in a telephone interview. It really propagates dangerous misinformation and inflammatory rhetoric. It tries to pit Americans against one another, all in an attempt to further their agenda of selling guns."

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/23/reuters-america-update-2-corporate-america-under-pressure-to-cut-ties-with-nra.html

[3Hotdogs]

1. Any response?

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Good.

I never thought I'd see the day that the dike would start to leak.

[appalachiablue]

3. HELL HATH NO FURY! Murdered young people, mothers, parents, consumers...

Enough!

[CurtEastPoint]

4. I sent a note to Fedex, pledging my fealty to UPS and USPS.

[appalachiablue]

5. Outstanding! Fed Ex is great for rush & other services are handy

but their rates can be sky high. I always go first with the US Postal Service, then UPS, etc.

Did you get a reply to your note?

[CurtEastPoint]

6. No, just sent this PM. They make it very hard to contact anyone other than package related.

I was promised they would send it on to the responsible party. We shall see!

[appalachiablue]

9. Companies do prioritize order requests, but still they probly took notice.

Every contact about this serious issue helps!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. how many?

Is there a study anywhere showing how many people join NRA just for discounts offered by these companies?

Might be interesting to see how much padding of the rolls they have and how much their membership might shrink without these promotions.

[appalachiablue]

8. I haven't seen any data, but corporations publically dropping associations

with the NRA is definitely encouraging. What it means in terms of loss of money and members, who knows at this point.

The First National Bank of Omaha, the largest privately owned bank dropping the NRA so suddenly due to customer response and other corporations doing the same like Enterprise, Hertz, Wyndham Hotels, Met Life Ins., Norton is very significant to people who oppose NRA ties.~ Onward!

Money, All the Companies Cutting Ties with the NRA After Deadly Florida School Shooting, Feb. 23, 18
http://time.com/money/5172471/nra-enterprise-first-national-bank-of-omaha-boycott-protests/