Levi Strauss & Co CEO speaks up, encouraging gun owners to wear something else

In an open letter published on the social media site LinkedIn, Levi's CEO Chip Bergh said he does not consider a clothing store an appropriate venue to carry firearms. He said the company would not ban gun from its stores but asked "responsible gun owners" to leave their firearms at home. "It boils down to this: you shouldn't have to be concerned about your safety while shopping for clothes or trying on a pair of jeans. Simply put, firearms don't belong in either of those settings," Bergh said. The 163-year-old company joins a long list of U.S. retailers including Target Corp, Sonic and Chili's that have asked their patrons to leave their guns at home. Conservatives expressed offense and outrage at Levi's message online, with the right-wing Breitbart website running a story about the statement under the headline: "Levi Strauss: Do Not Bring Your Legal, Concealed Carry Firearms Into Our Stores."
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-us...-idUSKBN13P2V9

It's because my gun is black, isn't it.

Where the fuck does he get off thinking that anyone cares what he thinks about this?

Meh, they're Levi's...


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I stopped wearing Levi's long ago due to their anti gun stuff. If you don't want my business, I am more than happy to spend my money elsewhere. What we be nice is the NRA encouraging their membership to not patronize them either. I WAS an almost exclusively Levi's wearer. If their business model is to discriminate against legally armed Americans....so be it. If they said they did not want women to wear headscarves in their stores, the media would go nuts. Discrimination against legally armed Americans is almost encouraged.

They have stores? Learn something new everyday.

There are people in the world that do not accept that evil exists.

My corporate response: "Fuck you asswipe, I do what I want."

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who else makes a jean with a cut like the 501 with the same or higher rise that don't look awful?

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+1, that's my first reaction.


My second reaction is that, for a change, I don't understand the outrage about Levi's reaction. Let's get the priorities of attention straight. The first thing that needs to be talked about is that a moron brought a gun and had an ND in a private business. I don't see a single fucking word of an outrage about it.

The second thing that needs to talk about is if you really want to bring a gun to a shopping venue where you're likely to handle the gun and even possibly be separated from it, if for a short period of time..

Third, maybe perhaps consider that the company must take some sort of a visible action to protect itself from future litigation.

Fourth, they could've just banned the guns in their stores - and after an ND that endangered lives of their staff or other customers do you really have moral grounds to blame them? Instead, they issued an non-enforceable request.

I have zero problem with their position and I am disappointed in a dogpile that's happening. I know that historically they are anti-2A and they can be smacked for that, but if some moron ND'd in my business, my reaction could've been the same.

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who else makes a jean with a cut like the 501 with the same or higher rise that don't look awful?

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No idea, that stuff is invisible to me. But my wife likes me in Lucky jeans more than Levi's.