Posted on 04/10/2013 8:24:14 PM PDT by marktwain
Business owners are not allowed to choose to allow smoking in their establishments. If business owners are not allowed to make these choices what right do they have to refuse to allow law abiding gun owners?
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Agreed.
I feel if I own a business and the majority of my customers ask me to not allow smoking, it should be my decision, based on whatever, understanding I may lose some business over my decision no matter what I chose.
It should NOT be the Govt’s place to come in and tell me I can’t allow smoking.
There was a ‘controversial’ County Administrator in Fairfax County VA who proclaimed that forcing businesses to abide by this law was setting a dangerous precedent.
He was stating that ‘maybe’ the Govt could give guidelines, even ‘people classes’ to owners BUT if he owned it etc, let the decision be his. When people start to not come in, he will either change his mind or change his method of business.
Remember when ‘they’ started this no smoking business, at the time I was a 4 pack a day Regular Camel smoker and I even figured there was nothing wrong with a designated non smoking area for those that didn’t want to be around it in a restaurant.
But even ‘me and my ilk’ giving in to the slightest minutiae in this regard has led, in about 25-30 years to NO SMOKING in public parks and stadiums (cigarettes anyway, the law doesn’t seem to apply to ‘rock concerts’ in stadiums..)
Denver is a perfect example of that political hypocrisy. They now have marijuana clubs where you can go and smoke dope but it’s illegal to open a cigar or pipe club.
They now have marijuana clubs where you can go and smoke dope but it’s illegal to open a cigar or pipe club.
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THAT is so hypocritical that even as sardonic, sarcastic, and cynical as I may be, I hadn’t put that idiocy together.
If you are up to your chin in feces and someone throws a bucket of phlegm at you, do you duck?
That is about the same type of choice we are starting to get when it comes to elections.....
“Of course businesses owners have a right to deny entry to people with guns -”
In some states you can be sued out of existence by the government for not wanting to take photos, sell flowers or bake a cake for a “Gay couple”. Something I think that’s covered under the right to freely associate.
But another right, the Right to keep and bear arms, is routinely being denied by other businesses under that same right of Free association.
It’s a strange, strange time we live in. So why do I keep getting these premonitions that the tsunami of history is about to hit at any moment.
All of this “background check” crap is a way for the government to establish a new “Ministry of Information” that can be used by all governmental factions from local to the national level to control the population and punishment thereof for infractions of any and all (constitutional or non-constitutional) directives and laws laid down by our Marxist/Socialist government.
Next, we will have information funneled into it by a new generation of “Hitler’s Youth” who keep the information flowing into the system through our public indoctrination centers (schools and colleges) by reporting their parents, family members and all “friends” to the system.
I’m afraid so. Traitor A or Traitor B.
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