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ama-gi wrote:
deepdiver wrote:
sprat wrote:
keep up the boycott, to teach the others.
If the owners and managers who made the deal were still the owners and managers I would agree. However, punishing new ownership and management which, by all accounts I have read and based on their behavior are on our side, with a boycott of the previous regmine's acts seems to me to be misguided at best. There are numerous businesses and organizations that have lost their way, so to speak, and have redeemed themselves under new ownership/management. I have read nothing of S&W since the 2001 purchase to indicate that the company intends to tread down the former path. Unless there is some proof that S&W has or intends to reprieve the acts of previous ownership/managment I think a continued boycott is merely vindictive and malicious at this point.
I think Sprat has a point. It should be a long and hard road for S+W to get back their good name. There should be long-lasting consequences. Otherwise, other manufacturers will think it will quickly blow over if they do the same thing. Even under new management, because the deal is still technically in place, I am much more hesitant to buy an S+W. I've actually passed up S+W's because of the deal.
The day that the deal gets officialy rescinded is the day I go out and buy an S+W.
S&W cannot recind the deal. In my earlier post I discussed the current S&W's position that it is non-enforcable, that it has never been enforced and that if DOJ or HUD try to enforce it S&W has legal grounds to fight it. This is 7 years later with new management. Seven years is a long time for most businesses.
I was seeing someone I cared about very deeply who had trust issues from a prior relationship. Despite my never giving her a shred of reason to doubt me, as freely admitted by her, she still went off on "I don't know that I can trust you" rants. I finally asked her at what point will she trust me. What could I do? How long do I have to "prove" my faithfulness before you trust me? She said, "I don't know." I told her that "I don't know" was too long and I can't live that way and left the relationship.
This is a similar concept. The original betrayers are no longer involved. S&W's current owners and management have been faithful to us and our cause. So how long? How long before they are forgiven for the prior sins of others no longer involved? How much longer do they have to be faithful to us before the boycotters let it go?
*For the record, I don't have a dog in this fight beyond hating to see us "eat our own" - the only S&W I have has been in my family nearly 100 years and I am not planning to buy one in the near future.
