{"id":32497,"date":"2012-12-18T12:45:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T18:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=32497"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:20:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:20:50","slug":"open-letter-to-dicks-sporting-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=32497","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To Dick&#8217;s Sporting Goods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: Dick&#8217;s Sporting Goods<br \/>\nFrom: Mitch Berg, Law-Abiding Gun Owner, Occasional Customer<br \/>\nRe: \u00a0Your Cowardice<\/p>\n<p>Dear Dicks,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d be lying if I said I shopped at your chain much, even for firearms and ammo. \u00a0Your prices are adequate (Frontiersman in Saint Louis Park is much better, Fleet Farm and Joe&#8217;s clobber you on ammo prices, and even Gander Mountain is better than you are on sale prices), but I&#8217;ll stop by and grab the odd purchase once in a while. \u00a0Indeed, a trip to the neighborhood Dick&#8217;s for some camping gear was on my noontime agenda today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/12\/18\/justice\/connecticut-dicks-guns\/index.html?hpt=hp_t1\">But no more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Crises come and go. And while the Democrats vow not to waste them, they do pass. \u00a0The vast majority of the American people &#8211; Real Americans, not the &#8220;elite&#8221; media, who are nothing but Frenchmen in Lexuses &#8211; aren&#8217;t fooled.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m done with you. \u00a0And I urge all Real Americans to follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: \u00a0You too, Cheaper Than Dirt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Dick&#8217;s Sporting Goods From: Mitch Berg, Law-Abiding Gun Owner, Occasional Customer Re: \u00a0Your Cowardice Dear Dicks, I&#8217;d be lying if I said I shopped at your chain much, even for firearms and ammo. \u00a0Your prices are adequate (Frontiersman in Saint Louis Park is much better, Fleet Farm and Joe&#8217;s clobber you on ammo prices, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-32497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32497"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33669,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32497\/revisions\/33669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}