CCRKBA Adds White Sox to ‘Do Not Feed’ List of Anti-Gun Businesses

The Chicago White Sox have decided to jump into the deep end of the gun debate by taking an anti-gun stance, siding with Everytown and pushing the idea that the gun control is really about preventing so-called gun violence. Yeah, I’m not a fan of the move in the least. I think sports teams should focus on winning, and since the White Sox are barely above .500, they really need to focus on it.

The thing is, I’m far from alone in being annoyed with the organization for its stance. A lot of people are, and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is among them.

From a press release:

The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has added the Chicago White Sox to its list of businesses and entities on the “Don’t Feed the Gun Prohibitionists” list for supporting gun control organizations.

In a message posted on “X” June 5, the White Sox revealed they were supporting Everytown for Gun Safety and other gun control groups on “Gun Violence Awareness Day.” 

“The White Sox just struck out with a lot of fans, judging from the reaction we’re seeing on social media,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “We’re adding the team to our list of organizations which no longer deserve the support of gun owners in Illinois, or anywhere else.”

The current list contains some 200 businesses and their CEOs.

“When we started this project,” Gottlieb recalled, “we were sometimes surprised, and in some cases disappointed, at some of the businesses we placed on the list. We discovered several brand name businesses and corporate leaders who evidently have a quiet agenda to limit gun rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment. The listing is our way of letting current and potential patrons have the knowledge about what their hard earned dollars may actually be funding.”

Businesses and professional sports teams, and the people who own, them can support whatever kind of philosophy they want,” Gottlieb observed, “and gun owning consumers and fans can likewise not spend any money with those entities. Let the marketplace decide. Over 100 million American gun owners represent a sizeable consumer bloc, and they will decide on their own where to spend their money.”

Reaction on “X” from sports fans already indicate the White Sox dropped the ball on this one. In terms the team ownership should understand, they have no runs, no hits and one big error.

“The White Sox just threw a spitball at their gun-owning fans,” Gottlieb said. “So far as we’re concerned, they’re swinging with cork bats.”

Now, I’d love to say I’m boycotting the White Sox, but that’s like saying I (a guy) am boycotting hysterectomies. You can’t boycott a team you were never going to follow in the first place, and I say that as someone with a kind of perverse love of Chicago despite its anti-gun nature. I’ve got good memories of the city from my time in the Navy, but I’ve never given a damn about that particular Chicago team, even when I followed sports almost religiously.

However, some of you may be White Sox fans or, at least, live close enough to visit their stadium when your time comes to town. In that case, you might want to think about this, because your support of your team will still be support for them, and we can see what they’re willing to do with their support.

The “Do Not Feed” list is a very good thing for gun rights advocates, because there are a lot of companies on there that you might not think about. I knew, for example, about Levi Strauss, but I covered the company’s announcement that they were going to give a portion of their proceeds to gun control organizations. I was there when Dick’s Sporting Goods earned its place on the list, too.

Others, such as Skillshare, were new to me.

The White Sox, though, screwed up because they didn’t have to go down this road. Neither did any of the other companies on the list. I don’t want to support any company that will use the money I give them to potentially advance an agenda that revolves around stripping me of my rights.

Editor’s Note: The radical Left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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