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bdickens wrote:Funny how when someone shoots his or her mouth off and angers a whole lot of people who then take action that has negative consequences for the mouth-shooter, that person's supporters start whining about the First Amendment and use words like "chilling" to describe those actions.

Mr. Cooper certainly has the right to be a useful idiot if he so chooses and throw his support behind the causes of socialism and victim disarmament. I have the right if I so choose to not help support those causes by patronizing his competitors instead. I also have the right to write a letter telling the man why he won't be getting any of my money.

Mr. Cooper didn't loose his job for supporting a particular political candidate. Mr. Cooper lost his job for angering his company's customer base so much as to seriously damage their business. If I insulted all of my bosses customers and damaged his business, I would probably lose my job too.

And quite frankly, I don't believe the company's statement about asking Mr. Cooper to step down. The company already lied once before in their earlier statement about him giving more money to McCain. They are probably lying again.

bdickens wrote:My letter to Mr. Cooper going out today by snailmail for maximum impact:

Byron Dickens
[address]

Dan Cooper,
Cooper Firearms of Montana
P.O. Box 114,
Stevensville, MT 59870

Mr. Cooper:
I am sorely disappointed to discover that you, as a firearms manufacturer and NRA member, would support Barack Obama for President. That is a slap in the face to your fellow NRA members.

A gun owner voting for Obama is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders. Obama supports every onerous and punitive gun control measure ever proposed. He opposes concealed carry laws and thinks that the draconian bans of Washington DC and Chicago should be the model for the rest of the country. He has supported bans on commonly available sporting ammunition and bans on commonly available sporting arms. In Obama's perfect world, only a select few (meaning the wealthy and politically connected) would ever be allowed access to firearms for any purpose at all, whether hunting, self-defense or target shooting.

You, sir, are what Lenin termed a “useful idiot.” You have been taken with your disenchantment with current US policy and Obama's empty promises and portrayal as the Second Coming and failed to see that his is the pathway to socialism, the destruction of the Second Amendment and the destruction of the Constitution in general. His writings, his associations, and his voting record make that clear. Your support of Obama would eventually lead to your own destruction.

When I am shopping for my next rifle, I will most assuredly not buy one of yours. And I will urge everyone I know not to buy one either. Smith & Wesson and Ruger were both hurt by their actions in the past to throw gun owners under the bus. They are both large companies. I doubt yours will survive. May your competition prosper.

Respectfully,


Byron Dickens.

TxD wrote:NRA member and CEO of Cooper Arms supports Obama.
He even donated to Obama's senate campaign.
Very disappointing.
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