NRA calls for boycott of ConocoPhillips
Associated Press (via CBS News):
The National Rifle Association began a boycott of ConocoPhillips Co. Monday over the energy giant’s attempt to block a state law preventing employers from firing workers who keep guns in their cars on company lots.“Across the country, we’re going to make ConocoPhillips the example of what happens when a corporation takes away your Second Amendment rights,” NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre said.
LaPierre was in southeastern Oklahoma for a rally to support employees who were fired by Weyerhaeuser Inc. for keeping guns stored in vehicles parked at work.
Calls to ConocoPhillips for comment were not immediately returned Monday.
After the firings at Weyerhaeuser, the Oklahoma Legislature passed a bill to prevent such terminations. ConocoPhillips filed a federal lawsuit to block the measure.
Comments
With all due respect, this is the worst kind of nonsense. Your right to own a gun ends where my property line begins.
Posted by: KipEsquire | August 3, 2005 6:59 PM
Yes, that’s absolutely right. I agree. ConocoPhillips is entitled to control its property. I would not have voted for the legislation at issue here.
But in response to Conoco’s particular property-controlling decisions, others are entitled to take their business elsewhere, are they not?
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August 3, 2005 10:07 PM
Now exactly how would this firm know what was in the cars of their employees? Isn’t this a violation of their privacy?
Just another example of an out of touch corporate elite.
Posted by: ThomasJackson | August 3, 2005 11:01 PM