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The message of most ministries today was tolerance and mercy. My musing accommodates with levity keith's scapegoating of those he doesn't agree with. Picking at scabs that divide us is not what we're expected to do.

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A very similar conversation about Dicks is taking place right now on another forum I frequent. I might have a little insight on this topic.

My career was mostly spent selling brand name sporting goods (hardgoods and footwear mostly) to retail sporting goods stores, big and small. Also department stores and other generalists. I've done business with everyone from Walmart, Sears, Footlocker and Penny down to tiny golf pro shops, and every type of retailer in between. And to my upcoming point, general sporting goods chains like Dicks. Now, I never did business specifically with Dicks but I did with both Sport Authority and Sport Mart as well as some very large Canadian retailers. SM & SA led the charge into "Big Box" sporting goods retailing. Dicks followed. Please note, SA and SM are long gone from the retail scene. There is a reason for that.

Dicks is in a battle for survival and not winning. Like most generalists they do a lot of different things badly and few things well. They win by location/quantity of stores along with buying power. They hope those two things will make up for all the things they don't do well. In any particular category, they usually get their asses handed to them by smaller, more focused and nimble competitors. They are typically terrible at managing inventory, training staff and personalized service.

While they may have publicly attributed political reasoning to their discontinuation of certain types of firearms, personally I call BS on that. I'd bet they thought they would be gaining some positive PR with some segment they want to attract and so used an action they were likely going to take at some point anyway. It is much more likely their whole shooting and hunting hard goods category (actual guns and ammo, not clothing) is under performing. It takes some serious balls in an organization like that to dump a well performing category. It's just not done. They can't afford to.

If they are completely shutting down the firearms departments in 125 stores it is because those departments are losing significant amounts of money, they can't see a way to turn it around and they think they can restock that area with merchandise that will perform better.

What's happened is that the ascendancy of anti-firearms thought, as propagated by the liberal left, has given them cover, and potentially a benefit, for publicizing a fiscal decision they would have taken at some point anyway. And for that, I blame hunters and shooters who have either behaved as Fudds over the last 30 years and ignored encroaching guns laws because "they won't affect me" or those who actively support Liberal politicians who are clearly anti gun. And I blame hunters and gun owners who have allowed themselves to become embarrassed by their activity....who have accepted the idea that what they do should be hidden.

Not everything is a conspiracy against us. Usually this sort of thing is simple economics. In this specific case with Dick's, I think it's the passive result of the liberal left's anti gun efforts, not an active part of it.


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Don't worry, soon someone will be along to lift the veil for you and help connect the dots of the great conspiracy. He may even show you a crimson blood trail in fresh snow....right after he catches his horse and puts him back in the barn. Hope you are well James.
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Originally Posted By: dal

perhaps who ever runs dicks thought it was unconscionable to be the source of some mass murderer's weapons, and decided to stop selling them.





Should the car makers be held responsible when some unbalanced nutbar runs down and kills 10 people in Toronto last year? Should the girls who wouldn't have sex with him??

The problem is not the guns. They never kill anyone. It is however, partially a problem of too many lawyers looking for a way to cash in. And has been noted, like journalists and teachers, the majority fall on the left side of the equation. It's where their bread is buttered.....helping to remove the concept of personal responsibility for one's actions as a consideration.


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Originally Posted By: SKB
Don't worry, soon someone will be along to lift the veil for you and help connect the dots of the great conspiracy. He may even show you a crimson blood trail in fresh snow....right after he catches his horse and puts him back in the barn. Hope you are well James.
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Always good Steve. Just trying to enjoy the coming spring and double guns.


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Originally Posted By: dal

My provincial government is considering putting a $37.0000 deductible on any injury lawsuit under a hundred grand to dissuade anyone that stubs their toe on the sidewalk or on private property, from running to a lawyer. I would support that.


Gotta love Ford Nation!!!!


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Spring....maybe some day, currently cleaning up after the last bomb cyclone. They say it was lowest pressure system ever measured here in CO. I only picked up 18" of snow but the power was out almost a full day. Nothing compared to the snow I had in the early 2000's, after it settled we had 5&1/2' from a single storm.
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Originally Posted By: craigd
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....The liberal lawmakers made it that way....

King, libs used to have lawmakers, but can you think of a progressive that is capable of legislation. You haven't been reading dal's gems have you? If a progressive wants something, they run to the courts, eh?


Quoted for accuracy. The Left's advances since the 1960's have come from court rulings, not the laws passed by elected officials. That's why they are carting around RBG's almost lifeless corpse, trying to delay Trump getting another kick at the can.


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Originally Posted By: dal
....My provincial government is considering putting a $37.0000 deductible on any injury lawsuit under a hundred grand to dissuade anyone that stubs their toe on the sidewalk or on private property, from running to a lawyer. I would support that.

Okay dal, tough as it might be, I admit that you're wrong.

Your province isn't over serious about frivolous suits, eh, particularly if we're talking $37 Canadian. What happens if you substitute deductible for trigger lock? All you have to do is ask, and they knock the thirty-seven bucks off? How's your liabilty insurance rates doing, do these things actually make it to court?

Me thinks, for a hundred percent commission on the first 37K, your progressive lawyers are welcoming the the new capitlist climate that you would support, eh? Can't you hear it now, hey dal, I know we talked about getting you a couple of million for stubbing your toe on the sidewalk in front of the mosque, but we're gonna settle for $37,002.

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I'm 25 degrees going to the high 30's today with bright sunshine and a week's worth of better weather forecasted ahead. All traces of snow and ice should be gone by Thursday. We didn't have a ton of snow but we had a lot of freeze/thaw cycles so in many places, like my yard, its not snow on the ground but a number of inches of solid ice. Will have been a tough winter for turkey around here.


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