Posted on 02/08/2012 7:16:28 AM PST by marktwain
According to philly.com columnist Kevin Riordan, DyAnn DiSalvo is an unobservant, self-absorbed children’s book author and illustrator living in Merchantville, New Jersey (“a quaint Camden County borough of about 3,800, Merchantville is best known for Victorian architecture”). Actually, Riordan doesn’t describe her as unobservant and self-absorbed. That’s just the obvious conclusion drawn from reading of her outrage at looking up one day recently and noticing that her small town just across the Delaware River from Philadelphia now sports a gun store. And that it’s been there for over a year. Which means that something must be done about this. Now.
“I was completely startled when I saw a sign saying ‘firearms and ammunition,’ ” says DiSalvo, who has lived in the borough for 10 years and is the mother of two grown children. “I thought, ‘Why is there a gun store here?’ “
Being a Brooklyn, New York native, DyAnn’s probably more accustomed to an idyllic, gun-free atmosphere where suddenly coming upon a gun store in your neighborhood would be about as likely (and as welcome) as finding a newly established combination methadone clinic/hazardous waste disposal center had opened down the street. As the title to the piece ominously indicates, the store’s mere existence…raises questions. And more sympathetic to DiSalvo’s concerns, columnist Riordan could not be.
Firearms pervade our culture; they make some people feel secure and others afraid. Many people have no interest in owning (much less firing) one. And we’d rather not live near a commercial establishment that supplies folks who do.
But DyAnn doesn’t like what the gun store, RayCo Armory, says about her little burgh to unsuspecting visitors.
“Here’s the ‘Welcome to Merchantville’ sign, there’s the elementary school, there’s the fried chicken, and there’s the gun shop,” says DiSalvo, who grew up in Brooklyn. “Welcome to Merchantville!”
So DiSalvo’s begun a letter-writing campaign to make sure her senses aren’t assaulted again in this manner.
“Business is business, but they need to be regulated into certain areas – business areas,” she says. “This is a residential area.“Merchantville . . . needs to wake up. We need to change the zoning laws.”
DiSalvo obviously believes that certain types of undesirable retail enterprises need to be confined to ghettos so they don’t affront the sensibilities of decent people. The LEOs and hunters who frequent RayCo just aren’t the kind of patrons DyAnn thinks are suitable to be readily seen by polite society.
But rather than amending the town’s zoning laws and changing the way Merchantville licenses and locates lawful businesses, there may be another solution. Perhaps RayCo, local gun enthusiasts, second amendment advocates and other lovers of free enterprise could take up a collection and offer to move DyAnn out of Merchantville to another town where her delicate sensibilities won’t be assaulted on a regular basis by the presence of a gun store and its reprobate customers. If, that is, they can find another town that’s willing to have her.
I live in Georgia and have used Adventure Outdoors, specically target by the maniac liberal Bloomberg for lawsuits. They recently opened a new location down the road from their old one in a former grocery store....8000 guns in stock!.....10-20 salesmen, all the accoutrements for guns!.....it is a beautiful sight to see. God Bless America....I buy from them at least once a month.
Beer!
Wine!
Ammo!
There is a good chance that was in the UP!
Regards,
GtG
PS UPers call anyone who lives south of "the bridge" flatlanders.
I saw it driving from Cadillac to Grayling.
The Weapon Shops of Isher
When a Weapon Shop mysteriously appears overnight in a small village, Fara, one of the leading townsfolk loyal to the Empress, leads a one-man crusade against its “corrupting” influence...
Well her website lists all her books that I’ll never buy. She hasn’t done anything since 2006, maybe she’s just attention wh*ring.
“Here’s the ‘Welcome to Merchantville’ sign, there’s the elementary school, there’s the fried chicken, and there’s the gun shop,” says DiSalvo, who grew up in Brooklyn. “Welcome to Merchantville!”
First of all, "DyAnn," Shame on your parents for mangling the spelling of your name. Secondly, if you don't like a gun shop in your town, you're more than welcome to move back to the socialist utopia of Brooklyn, NYC, you myopic, intolerant, bitch!!!!!
Back to Brooklyn where she’ll be safe. lol
The thing is, is that they move out of the big city to get away from the scum and filth.....brought upon by years of failed socialist policies, and rampant liberalism, saying they want a better life. Yet when they come to the burbs, they bring all of their mental baggage with them, and try to impose it upon others that don’t share their views. Trust me, I grew up in a bedroom community right outside of NYC in Bergen County, and I saw it firsthand. These individuals suffer from “Bloomberg Syndrome.” The meaning is that, they think if it’s good enough for NYC, then it should be good for the rest of the country. They have such a culture of fear, ignorance, and disdain for ANYTHING related to the Second Amendment, that the mere mention of a firearm sends them into convulsions. These dimwits need to learn that NYC is not the center of the universe, and if they don’t like how things operate in the other parts of the country, then they can go back to NYC, and try to redeem that socialist craphole. Now, I’m not dumping on the great citizens of NYC that are out there trying to make a difference for the better, but people like the moron mentioned in the story need to STFU, get a life, or leave if they don’t like it.
The thing is, is that they move out of the big city to get away from the scum and filth.....brought upon by years of failed socialist policies, and rampant liberalism, saying they want a better life. Yet when they come to the burbs, they bring all of their mental baggage with them, and try to impose it upon others that don’t share their views. Trust me, I grew up in a bedroom community right outside of NYC in Bergen County, and I saw it firsthand. These individuals suffer from “Bloomberg Syndrome.” The meaning is that, they think if it’s good enough for NYC, then it should be good for the rest of the country. They have such a culture of fear, ignorance, and disdain for ANYTHING related to the Second Amendment, that the mere mention of a firearm sends them into convulsions. These dimwits need to learn that NYC is not the center of the universe, and if they don’t like how things operate in the other parts of the country, then they can go back to NYC, and try to redeem that socialist craphole. Now, I’m not dumping on the great citizens of NYC that are out there trying to make a difference for the better, but people like the moron mentioned in the story need to STFU, get a life, or leave if they don’t like it.
Seamus, this thing you write about ‘Bloomberg Syndrome’., does that include making NYC into HIS Plantation? Demonrats and all Liberals think they and only they control and know what’s best for the Serfs!
Yes, Massuh Bloomberg, suh! :^}
Have a Great Day.
"Oh, no! that guy is selling tamales out of a cooler his wife made at home. Outlaw it before someone gets a tummy ache!!! Aaahhhhhhhhh!"
"EEEEEK! That guy is wearing a gun on his hip. I wet myself!!!"
"Look at all the cars and trucks with rusty fenders. I might snag my designer jeans on that. Regulate it!!!"
"I saw a deer carcass in the back of a pickup truck. Gross!!! Make a law that they have to cover it up."
Anything and everything that offends their sensibilities has to be banned or regulated so that they don't have to see it. It doesn't matter that they would never buy a tamale from a guy in the Wal-Mart parking lot they want to make sure no one does. It's neurotic as hell and that's what they consider normal.
Alcohol, tobacco and firearms. It ought to be a convenience store!
Throw a football or Frisbee on an L.A. beach in the summer: prepare for a $1,000 fine
I didn't even need to come up with my own examples. (face palm)
I hope the employee that scoops ice cream doesn't handle the firearms.
I hate guns when they are all sticky.
There used to be a time in Missouri where you could buy liquor and guns in the same store.
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