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   From: support-the-nra@delta.com   
      
   In the wake of the Parkland, Florida, murders, there has been an   
   unusual amount of anti-gun and anti-NRA commentary by private   
   corporations with plenty of problems of their own.   
      
   In February, Delta announced it was ending a discount program   
   for passengers who used the airline to travel to the NRA’s 2018   
   Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas. The move had nothing to do with   
   any problems Delta itself experienced with the NRA or its   
   members, but supposedly came in response to what the airline   
   called “the current national debate over gun control amid recent   
   school shootings.” Bizarrely, Delta characterized its decision   
   to link innocent NRA members with school shootings and to punish   
   them by reneging on a contract as a reflection of its “neutral   
   status” and an attempt to “refrain from entering this debate.”   
      
   You can make your views known to Delta CEO Ed Bastian by   
   emailing him at ed.bastian@delta.com, or calling Delta’s   
   corporate headquarters at (404) 715-2600.   
      
   The Washington Post, however, characterized Delta’s move   
   differently, situating it squarely within the #BoycottNRA   
   movement. The airline, in other words, had merely jumped on a   
   self-glorifying corporate bandwagon that has done nothing to   
   harm the NRA but has done much to remind gun-owning Americans   
   just what is at stake in the gun control debate.   
      
   Ironically, Delta’s move hurt its own shareholders far worse   
   than it did NRA members. While only 13 NRA members took   
   advantage of the now revoked Delta Discount, the airline’s   
   attempt to implicate the NRA in school shootings led the Georgia   
   legislature to eliminate tax breaks that were expected to be   
   worth some $50 million to the Atlanta-based company.   
      
   Delta CEO Ed Bastian, however, remained defiant. “Our decision   
   was not made for economic gain and our values are not for sale,”   
   he said in a statement on the legislative reversal, as if   
   Delta’s “values” and his job first and foremost involve pursuing   
   a political agenda against gun owners and NRA members.   
      
   Bastian then went on to brag during a television appearance on   
   CNBC that his company “gained a lot of fans” for its   
   discriminatory treatment of NRA members and for not “selling out   
   to political interests.”   
      
   We have some news for Mr. Bastian: Our Second Amendment rights   
   aren’t up for negotiation, either. As the NRA has already made   
   abundantly clear: “The loss of a discount will neither scare nor   
   distract one single NRA member from our mission to stand and   
   defend the individual freedoms that have always made America the   
   greatest nation in the world.”   
      
   Freedom-loving Americans, meanwhile, have responded to these   
   elitists attacks the way they always have, by renewing their   
   support for the NRA, the most uncompromising champion of   
   America’s constitutional freedoms.   
      
   It’s clear from recent customer reviews of Delta that the   
   airline’s time and efforts would be more profitably spent on   
   addressing its own operational issues, rather trying to deflect   
   attention to NRA members.   
      
   If you agree, feel free to contact Delta CEO Ed Bastian and tell   
   him all about it. Mr. Bastian’s email is   
   edward.bastian@delta.com. You can also ask to speak to him by   
   calling Delta’s corporate headquarters at (404) 715-2600. Should   
   you prefer to write a letter to Mr. Bastian, Delta’s corporate   
   address is Delta Air Lines Inc., P.O. Box 20706, Atlanta, GA   
   30320.   
      
   Other options for making your views known are available in this   
   USA Today article aimed at helping aggrieved Delta passengers   
   get redress from Mr. Bastian, who apparently tends to hide   
   behind legions of staffers to avoid direct contact with his   
   company’s customers.   
      
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