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In reply to the discussion: Educate Cabela's re: protecting assault weapons that could kill US Troops in the world's hot spots. [View all]patrice
(47,992 posts)gun makers too
Since it is a business and has a business model that produces profits/dollars, if the dollars produced, from buyers buying what is sold are not enough, i'd say there's something wrong with the business. If the business can't survive without that other stuff, perhaps they should adapt their business model appropriately.
If a price includes something more from me than just money; if I have to "support" the manufacturer, in this case, of a gun, too, if I must give them political powers, if I have to join a cheer-leading squad and say only positive things, if I am prevented from saying negative things about a product/a gun, all of that exceeds the basic traits of good business. It's not a successful business if it can't simply produce enough of something to sell it at a price that the market will bear, to make enough of a profit to pay for the salaries and overhead of producing what is being sold.
If I and others refuse to pay that extra non-monetary price for guns, if we refuse to "support" the NRA or whatever other gun organization, and guns can't succeed as a business without that other non-monetary "support", then guns should not be sold, because they are a bad business. I'll have to make my own or hire an artisan or go without.