Gunshop owner disrespects military ... your thoughts?

Threats against ones family are never okay in my book don't care who or what you stand for.

Totally insane. There's so much to this that I don't know where to begin.

First, he has the right to express his disdain towards whatever it is he disagrees with. He also has to look at himself as to whether what and how he expresses himself is accurate and/or responsible, as well as how it may come back to affect him.

Second, regardless of his personal beliefs or what he said, in absolutely NO WAY is it okay to issue threats of violence to him or anyone in his family. This is just plain and flat out wrong.

Third, the best way to counter such ridiculous assertions is by peacefully spreading the word and boycotting his store. If others wish to follow suit then that is THEIR choice. If others wish to still patronize the man's store then that too is also THEIR choice. Allow others to learn and make their own choices. Hold them accountable as befitting their previous actions but do so in a civil, peaceful and adult manner.

A follow on to my third point, I personally don't care for many businesses or organizations. The majority of them I refuse to patronize because of their poor business practices or mostly because of their very poor attitudes towards society. While I would hope others would also not patronize them, I will not force my beliefs on others yet allow them to make their own decision.

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It's funny how he bad mouths the system yet quickly tries to back peddle out of it as he sees the dollars suddenly stop rolling in. What an idiot.

What an idiot. Especially in Anniston, Alabama with Fort McClellan next door. He must have lost a past girlfriend to a soldier. The death threats are overboard, but hopefully everyone will boycott his business and go to someone that is pro-military.

Death threats are wrong.

Now that that is out of the way, this guy is a moron. Let's just say that he in fact holds convictions that veterans are not heroes, that they are puppets of corporate masters, etc. You own a GUN STORE. What genius alienates a high percentage of his clientele?
No amount of damage control will placate anyone who saw this rant.
All because he wanted to look cool to his eight hipster friends who "liked" his comment.

This guy is a total nut. I was a police officer there for several years. I had several run-ins with him. This is not his first outburst on Facebook and he has no problem threatening others either. He actually post a threat towards me on Facebook a year ago on how I was a pig with a badge and if I came in his neighborhood again he would make sure I didn't leave. I have no sympathy for this lowlife.

The gun shop owner sounds like a nut, but the folks who threatened him and his family with violence are equally nutty. Wrong on several levels.

If he owned a gun store in my community, he surely would not get my business and I would let all my friends know about it as well.

There's a book called "How to Sell Anyone Anything" by Joe Gerard. He says on average everyone knows 250 people. When someone gets a bad deal from a business, they generally tell everyone they know. In turn most of those he tells will tell others they know. This can cause a small business to suffer very quickly.

Gerard wrote this long before the internet and social media. When somebody posts on the internet how they got a bad deal from a business, his message hits more than 250 people. First the gun store owner was a fool for making his personal opinion about veterans public. Second, he was a bigger fool for doing it on social media. He almost immediately began to feel the backlash to him and his business; so much so he comes out to publicly apologize.

I don't condone anyone making death threats against this guy as I find that to be extreme and uncalled for. I do favor boycotting businesses owned by people like him though.

When someone like him makes statements of that nature, what else would he expect from the public? He can't exactly hide since he owns a business and people know where to find him at work. I don't wish any harm on his family but, most people would think twice before they mention something controversial on social media. Good way for him to possibly shut down his business for good with statements against vets. Those "Heroes" he mentioned in his post have family or friends in the military too. He won't get too many new customers again. He will likely loose many customers from posting those ignorant remarks.

And it's the people like that along with their right to free speech that we serve and protect. I do give him credit for recognizing local government officials, but dissing on veterans in such extremist fashion is uncalled for.