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Topic: Comcast pulls gun shop ads
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Comcast pulls gun shop ads
from cable network
ABC12 (Flint, MI), by Kristen Abraham
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Original Article
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Posted By:Summernite, 2/19/2013 9:29:11 AM
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| A gun shop owner said firearm manufacturers, distributors and retailers are being targeted unfairly after Comcast announces it´s dropping all gun shop ads from its nationwide cable network. The cable company recently acquired NBC Universal and this is a long standing policy there. When a local ad agency recently placed an order for Williams Gun Sight in Davison Township, it was denied. Owner Tom Wright said he´ll take his business elsewhere.
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Comments:
What I find so outrageous is that Firearms are considered offending to Comcast but Male Enlargement pills are not. Perhaps if Firearm Dealers place advertising with a naked couple in a bathtub staring over the lake with their Remington´s, it´d be ok.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
graniteman2009, 2/19/2013 9:33:48 AM (No. 9184579)
The fastest way to nip this in the bud. We need to have Gun Owners cancel their accounts. Give them a taste of their own medicine. The Dolan´s are all about the $$$´s. They live in NY and are big Cuomo supporters.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bob913, 2/19/2013 9:36:54 AM (No. 9184583)
Comcast will show all kinds of violence on the cable tv shows....
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Attila DiMedici, 2/19/2013 9:42:31 AM (No. 9184592)
Well, this confirms that I made the correct choice to switch my Internet provider. I just wish that I had waited a week so that I could have given this as a reason as well.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
borderboy, 2/19/2013 9:42:43 AM (No. 9184593)
I don´t have Comcast but if I did, after this report, I wouldn´t have it long. And so should other like-minded supporters of the Second Amendment. Drop Comcast.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
sooznews, 2/19/2013 9:43:39 AM (No. 9184595)
They don´t advertise meth or cocaine or heroin, which is why no one uses it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JAN, 2/19/2013 9:44:22 AM (No. 9184597)
Why in the world would anyone intelligent advertise anything on any of the NBC entities.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
woodsman, 2/19/2013 9:44:51 AM (No. 9184599)
Hello dish network!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
kenecarroll, 2/19/2013 9:47:54 AM (No. 9184603)
Time to drop Comcast....idiots.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
metalman2, 2/19/2013 9:57:59 AM (No. 9184625)
After visiting a couple of my favorite gun shops over the last couple of weeks, I question the need for anyone in the gun business to advertize. At this point in time, it seems like wasted money.
Everyone is nearly sold out of everything.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Eljay, 2/19/2013 10:03:20 AM (No. 9184637)
i just offed my sat. tv (dish nw) last week.
nuthin´ worth watching.
the csr, poor lady, embarassed herself trying to get me to reconsider.
have received a couple of inanne robo-mails trying to persuade me how much i´ll miss ´em. i say not.
feels good to hit the jerks where they feel it, in the wallet.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
hot coffee, 2/19/2013 10:53:39 AM (No. 9184752)
That´s Comcastic.
What a dumb move. All Michiganders love their guns. Detroit gang-bangers love their guns. The law-abiding gun owners in the rest of the state (who are trying to protect themselves from the Detroit gang-bangers) love their guns.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DoktorFranken, 2/19/2013 10:55:33 AM (No. 9184758)
Yet another reason NOT to use Comcast. I LOVE voting with my dollars!!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
blunderbuss, 2/19/2013 12:03:06 PM (No. 9184923)
I have comcast. I have not seen a lack of gun adds here at least on the outdoor channel. I had never seen gun shop adds on TV, but I hear them on AM and even some FM radio stations all the time.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
vafreedom, 2/19/2013 2:05:29 PM (No. 9185173)
If as one commenter stated that Comcast has a government sanctioned monopoly in the city/county, then they should fall under the anti-discrimination statutes. The gun shop is a legally licensed concern carrying on business in the local community. People should petition their local government to rescend the contract to Comcast, and they should be prosecuted under the civil rights statutes.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
chief1942, 2/19/2013 4:16:33 PM (No. 9185391)
Don´t patronize these folks! They think you are stupid and will prove it by violating the very essence of capitalism that has made this country the greatest in the world. Will these idiots never learn to simply pay attention to running a profitable business and leave the politics to those knuckle-dragging types within the beltway? They deserve to fail.
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