eBay bans Confederate battle flag, other items bearing racist icon
Found on Ars technica on Tuesday, 23 June 2015
On Tuesday, eBay announced it would be immediately banning all Confederate flags and items bearing the flag image. The move comes in the wake of the recent South Carolina shooting that left nine people dead at the Emanuel AME Church, a historic black church in Charleston.
On Tuesday, the governor of Virginia announced that it would begin the process of removing the optional Confederate battle flag from specialized license plates. And one day earlier, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley called for it to be removed from the state capitol.
Let's ban the flag; guns are not the problem. That's such a knee-jerk reaction. It would be interesting to see what they do if the US flag is used in the next shooting. They probably won't be consequent though, since pressure cookers are still sold.