Wait, businesses are not supposed to make profit?
WTF man?
What planet are you from OP?
WTF man?
What planet are you from OP?
Thank you to those who made come compelling arguments to my post. Point taken.
reddog1 i see that you run a gun store, and probably have some steady customer flow. As a hypothetical, you charge for a typical shotgun for $300 for home defence, but cause of a dozen or so break in's of homes, you raise the price of the home defense shotgun price say to $700, are you gonna say that's just business or is that gouging like everyone says when gas stations do that? Not a flame, but a question.
reddog1 i see that you run a gun store, and probably have some steady customer flow. As a hypothetical, you charge for a typical shotgun for $300 for home defence, but cause of a dozen or so break in's of homes, you raise the price of the home defense shotgun price say to $700, are you gonna say that's just business or is that gouging like everyone says when gas stations do that? Not a flame, but a question.
That would just be me being a plain old d**khead,
I have no problem with for-profits making money....at all. They are in it for the money. I am a firm believer in the free market. Perhaps that didn't come through in the post, but that is what I believe in, for sure.
I also believe that the change in CD's website suddenly from selling firearms and advertising them along the lines of "because you need the second amendment to preserve the first" or something like that (check out :
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/...Slb9KT5hDYwCGMYQ6t5F6BY3WF6sBlatn5wCzqPCLdZbk)
and then suddenly stopping selling of ALL firearms and putting a blanket sign on their website saying "CD does NOT SELL FIREARMS" when just a day ago they were selling firearms is a little bit hypocritical, IMHO. Check:
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/...wtRIbvBopNqisqXxezLV0pZc2EoqHn3PvZ3BmvuZaN9SA
Not a sign saying we are temporarily stopping firearms sales, just a blanket sign saying CD does not sell firearms, perhaps hoping that new visitors to the site like the liberal media would believe CD never sold firearms?
It indicates to me that the top management panicked and stopped selling firearms. I have nothing against them for doing that....why get the negative press and suffer liberal idiots attacking you? However, there are some businesses who stand by their customers' values, and others who don't. I don;t hold it against employees at CD, who are likely firearm enthusiasts and 2A supporters (I mean why else would you work in a gun store, for the big money? )
Now it seems CD management has reacted to backlash from their customer base (who are NOT the liberals they were so scared of, BTW) and are communicating that we are reviewing policies, and will soon start shipping guns to FFL holders only, etc, etc ....what were they doing earlier, shipping them directly to customers? Of course not.
Just makes me wonder what CD does with their customer records and what they would do if some gummint dude came and asked them for it.
But nothing against them at all, free enterprise is great. Wish we had more of it in healthcare, for example.
And I totally agree, price ceilings are a very bad idea. In any area... except monopoly utilities.
IN conclusion, I plan to still support them, though will likely not buy a firearm from them ever, becuase I simply have no clue what their management does with their records and who they cave to.
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Reddog1 my god now thats a honest man. abajaj11 that is the point i wish i could of brought across in my posts.
CTD will never get my business!!
Just a thought, maybe they do not actually own the firearms, but only purchase them when they sell from the supplier. Let's say with the run on the market, the supplier is having a bit of difficulty and can not determine when the next batch will be available because of the record amount of purchases. CTD could pull them off the website because they can't fill the order. You can piss people off for not selling, and or piss them off for not fulfilling their order. The market probably dictated it, not the higher ups. I am in no way here to defend them.
