I did not drag the owner's name through the mud. I don't know the guy. I had no problem with the guy until he took me calling some of his customers douchebags personally stating that I insulted He, His family, and friends. If it's his close personal buddies and his family members behaving poorly then yes, I think that they are douchebags. Otherwise he's a ghost to me.
How can he screen his customers? Come on people. He doesn't have to screen them. He merely has to give a crap when they race around on public roads pissing the rest of us off while showing off the HOLLYROCK name. The idiots doing this are dragging his name through the mud, not me. I don't know the business owner. In this small county I'm sure someone knows the owner of the Green GMC that I mentioned. You don't think he has an idea of who this is? Am I the only one that finds the defensive tone of the business owner puzzling? Am I the only one that thinks that it's a letdown that he never simply stated "I apologize for the poor actions of some of the people who have used my products and services. I don't take responsibility for their actions, but I do feel bad that my company name is associated with such stupidity."
Gun grabbers? Get a life. Gun grabbers would go after GM, Ford, and Dodge (or Ram / Fiat). Nobody is doing this. If I head to a range (lifetime NRA member here) and a group is rocking a gun store shirt, has that gun store info on one of their trucks, and they all act like unsafe, ill-mannered asses then I'll call them on it if I can then and there. If I can only do it on a public forum later I will. If the gun store owner responds and feels that I'm insulting him I can't help that owner. I can choose to boycott the business. That's my right as an AMERICAN. The power and freedom of choice.
I can't help the ones among you that don't get it. When one of the diesel douchebags (not painting all diesel owners) gets in an accident while racing, doing a burnout, or driving like a jerk it shouldn't come as a surprise. If the truck has a Hollyrock decal on it people will think back to the times they witnessed such douchebaggery or they will think of this thread. Then you can see the gun grabber type mentality when some among us think that the tuning shop deserves blame.