Securian Financial Group, located in St. Paul, is the latest company to take a stand against the National Rifle Association: Securian, one of St. Paul’s largest employers with 2,600 employees at their downtown headquarters, will no longer offer insurance as a benefit for NRA members.
A company spokesperson said, in a statement, that, “After thoughtful review, we have decided to discontinue marketing our insurance products as a National Rifle Association benefit. We have asked the NRA to remove our information from their website.”
And they’re certainly not alone: Following the school shooting that took 17 lives on February 14 at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and after the NRA’s dismissive response to the discussion of gun control legislation to prevent such shootings from happening again, Eden Prairie’s Starkey Hearing Technologies, which formerly offered discounts on its hearing aids to NRA members, was the first Minnesota-based company to break off relations.
Insurance providers MetLife and Chubb, airlines Delta and United, car rental companies Hertz, Avis, Budget, and Enterprise, and the Best Western hotel chain have also rescinded their NRA-based benefits, deals, and offers.
