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<blockquote data-quote="tRidiot" data-source="post: 2620184" data-attributes="member: 9374"><p>That's a good question with no good answer. Lots of reasons I stick with my current bank - investments, personal relationships and friendships with people whom have nothing to do with "corporate", accounts not easily moved to another bank, like those used to pay bills, support investments, loans and mortgages, etc. My personal banker and investment people are there and those relationships were forged before all the anti-gun propaganda reached the corporate level. Local bank instead of huge multi-national conglomerate, etc. I have thought several times about sending an email to corporate to explain my discomfort with their policy - specifically walking in and out of their facility with sometimes large amounts of cash. Of course, I can carry and just not let them know, but it's the intellectual dishonesty that rankles me a bit, seeming to support an entity that not only doesn't encourage the free exercise of what I see as one of the most important constitutionally-protected rights of citizens but the active discouragement of said rights. I support the right of people to hold their own beliefs and to express them in a 1st Amendment sense, but I don't think I'd want someone patronizing my business while wearing technically legal yet morally repugnant (to me) clothing like the T-shirts being advertised in the wake of the St. Louis riots, etc.</p><p></p><p>The bottom line is convenience, to be brutally honest - I'd like to move my accounts to a business that not just allows but actively encourages legal exercise of the 2nd Amendment, but it would definitely make my life harder. Hell, I began moving much of my financial interests away from Bank of America when it became clear they were anti-gun, but they have now removed their gunbuster signs and I've OC'd in there a few times without incident since. Am I a hypocrite? Probably. Aren't we all, in some ways? This doesn't excuse it, of course, it's just a simple acknowledgement that to some degree convenience is a hard thing to give up to stand on principle. </p><p></p><p>For example, my wife wants me to turn in my guns if they make them illegal. It's hard to explain to her that I would rather die or go to prison, leaving her and my son broke and alone than to give up what I see as such an important facet of our heritage without a fight. <sigh> She also doesn't understand that I would like to do a Pat Tillman and serve my country, even at the risk of death. While I would be sad that my son would grow up without me, I would like to think he would be deeply moved by the example and it might be the greatest lesson I could ever teach him.</p><p></p><p>I dunno... <sigh></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tRidiot, post: 2620184, member: 9374"] That's a good question with no good answer. Lots of reasons I stick with my current bank - investments, personal relationships and friendships with people whom have nothing to do with "corporate", accounts not easily moved to another bank, like those used to pay bills, support investments, loans and mortgages, etc. My personal banker and investment people are there and those relationships were forged before all the anti-gun propaganda reached the corporate level. Local bank instead of huge multi-national conglomerate, etc. I have thought several times about sending an email to corporate to explain my discomfort with their policy - specifically walking in and out of their facility with sometimes large amounts of cash. Of course, I can carry and just not let them know, but it's the intellectual dishonesty that rankles me a bit, seeming to support an entity that not only doesn't encourage the free exercise of what I see as one of the most important constitutionally-protected rights of citizens but the active discouragement of said rights. I support the right of people to hold their own beliefs and to express them in a 1st Amendment sense, but I don't think I'd want someone patronizing my business while wearing technically legal yet morally repugnant (to me) clothing like the T-shirts being advertised in the wake of the St. Louis riots, etc. The bottom line is convenience, to be brutally honest - I'd like to move my accounts to a business that not just allows but actively encourages legal exercise of the 2nd Amendment, but it would definitely make my life harder. Hell, I began moving much of my financial interests away from Bank of America when it became clear they were anti-gun, but they have now removed their gunbuster signs and I've OC'd in there a few times without incident since. Am I a hypocrite? Probably. Aren't we all, in some ways? This doesn't excuse it, of course, it's just a simple acknowledgement that to some degree convenience is a hard thing to give up to stand on principle. For example, my wife wants me to turn in my guns if they make them illegal. It's hard to explain to her that I would rather die or go to prison, leaving her and my son broke and alone than to give up what I see as such an important facet of our heritage without a fight. <sigh> She also doesn't understand that I would like to do a Pat Tillman and serve my country, even at the risk of death. While I would be sad that my son would grow up without me, I would like to think he would be deeply moved by the example and it might be the greatest lesson I could ever teach him. I dunno... <sigh> [/QUOTE]
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