Posted on 08/26/2012 5:11:53 PM PDT by smokingfrog
One Monday last October, Derrick Hunter decided to go shooting at the Maryland Small Arms Range in Upper Marlboro, his local firing range. He paid the $15 entry fee, and went inside.
And that's when the metaphorical bullets started to fly.
According to Hunter, 34, a special police officer, two women walked in behind him. Since it was "Ladies' Day," a longtime staple at the club, a manager told them they didn't have to pay.
Hunter heard the exchange, and asked if he could use the range for free too. "He said, 'It's Ladies' Day and you don't meet that criteria,'" he told ABC News. He accuses the firing range of "reverse sexism."
"Any time you get any kind of discrimination it does hit home to a certain extent," he said. "I have children. If don't stand for something you'll fall for anything. Sooner or later you have to stand up for your rights."
Hunter complained to the Human Relations Commission of Prince George's County, which reviews cases of discrimination. In August, it concluded that the case had merit. Last week, Hunter filed a $200,000 lawsuit against the firing range.
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True. But that is where the nanny state part comes in. The nanny state breeds jerks like this.
1. Nobody will get to shoot for free
2. To cover legal costs, everybody will pay more to shoot
Thanks a lot, you big, whiny, leftist.
So these people are just products of their environment?
Does he ride around in the short police car?
He’s produce of the entitlement Plantation.
If my wife had been one of those ladies, she would have challenged him to a shooting competition — loser pays. Unless the guy shoots high expert, he would have been footing the bill...
Nope. Such scum have always been around and always will. All the leftidiot environment in this nation has done is empower them.
See obastard for a similar example...
Women at the firing range.
Hmm-hmm-hmm....
Hmm-hmm-hmm....
Next time you go to the range, look up at all the bullet holes.
Behind the firing line.
Big difference between a company doing what it wants to do, and a company being forced to do something.
This range is doing a public service. There is a social stigma of women against guns, leaving many women ignorant and unprotected. Deals like this encourage women to try out guns, and usually they like them when they actually shoot them. That means more protected women, meaning more dead rapists and burglars.
Now if the government were to try to force ranges to let women shoot free, then I’d have a problem.
Sorry. Doesn’t make sense to me.
If a dremel tool, Gojo, and/or X-acto knife is used, I agree with you. If a "salon" is involved, I would assert it is decidedly, "un-manly."
Well said. “Ladies’ Day” is a common tradition for various businesses to run, because where the ladies congregate, there the available men will come (and spend money).
I suppose there’s really nothing wrong with it, although I can’t help but cringe whenever I see a man with professionally manicured nails. In fact, it recently prejudiced me against using the services of a potential financial advisor who preened himself and flashed his highly buffed nails in front of me. Joe, in retrospect, he reminds me of Charlie Gimbert. :-)
I understand that’s the range idea but just saying in todays world when women for the past years been whinning about being equal wanting the same jobs as man then pay the same as man. The man leaves the range losses. Same for ladies night at bars men pay more so ladies drink free,how about mens night ladies pay men dont.
If you don’t believe ladies night is fair, don’t frequent a bar which features a ladies night.
better yet, open your own bar and have only men’s night where the ladies pay.
I think you’ll quickly see why, from a business standpoint, “ladies night”, and not “mens night” is a ploy to get men and women into an establishment.
LOL!
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