Madeleine Morgenstern
An Arizona gun store has a
simple message for Barack Obama voters: you’re not welcome here.
The Southwest Shooting
Authority in Pinetop, Ariz. posted a sign on its door and took out a newspaper
ad declaring that if you voted for the president last week, you’re not allowed
in.
“If you voted for Obama,
please turn around and leave! You have proven that you are not responsible
enough to own a firearm!” the sign states.
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Owner Cope Reynolds conceded
that he can’t really tell who voted for Obama unless they “own up to it” — but
if they do, they’re out.
“If they don’t say anything,
we’ll never know,” Reynolds said in an email to the Phoenix New Times. “However, if they own up to it, we will
not serve them.”
He said in an explanation on AmmoLand that he did it to “demonstrate once again
that the bottom line for our business is principle, not money. Yes, it has been
damaging at times but our values are intact.”
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Reynolds told Fox News that as a small business owner, “If you are
dumb enough to vote for Obama again – after four years of this — I don’t think
you are responsible enough to own a firearm. I don’t care who it makes mad.”
He said he’s gotten support
for his new policy from around the country — including one person who ordered
hundreds of dollars worth of ammunition — but that there have also been lots of
“vile, rude and hateful comments.”
“I hate it because my 17-year-old
son answers the phone and they light into him,” Reynolds said. “They call us
stupid rednecks and racist.”
Reynolds told Fox that no
matter what happens, the sign is staying up.
“If we lose the whole business
it doesn’t matter,” he said. “The bottom line is — my values.”
Madeleine Morgenstern, The Blaze, November 17, 2012 at 3:40pm
The fact is that, legally, this store cannot refuse to serve customers just because they voted for Obama. That said, Obama is not friendly to the 2nd Amendment, and we're going to have some unpleasant battles over this in the near future. Despite Obama's victory over a very flawed opponent, the 2nd Amendment remains popular with the majority of Americans.
ResponderExcluirIn Nevada I have, after arms training and taking a difficult test, got a license to carry a concealed weapon. Open carry is also legal in Nevada, although almost nobody does it. The point is: we have the right to do it for self defense and id defense of others and property. However, in these rural and semi rural towns, crime rates are very low.
In California, on the other hand, gun restrictions are severe and crime rates are high.
You understand, I'm sure.
Jim