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To: dayglored; y'all
The distinction I'm making is between discrimination on the basis of race (or gender or handicap, etc.) on the one hand, and things like clothing, accessories,

Arms are more than 'accessories'. We have a basic right to carry them, - which shall not be infringed.

etc. which unlike your skin color can be left home or at the door.

You provide arms lockers at your door?

As a private citizen I don't like the government telling me what I can and can't do with my private property.

As a private citizen I don't like the my peers telling me what I can and can't do with my private property. - According to our Constitution, I can carry arms.

If I open it to the public (like a business) I will accept that I have to let -all- the public in. But I do not accept that I also have to let them carry any possession they please into my shop as well. Boom boxes? Broadswords? Wearing only a thong?

Openly carrying or wearing inappropriate items is unacceptable. Carrying properly concealed arms is not only constitutionally acceptable, it is an uninfringeable right.

Banning those things in my shop is within my rights, and personally I think that guns fall more into that category than into personal characteristics like skin color.

Why do you ~want~ the 'right' to ban concealed arms? Why do you think guns fall into such an objectionable "category"?

80 posted on 05/01/2007 6:54:06 AM PDT by tpaine (" My most important function on the Supreme Court is to tell the majority to take a walk." -Scalia)
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To: tpaine
> You provide arms lockers at your door?

Hell, no. I welcome guns on MY property.

> Why do you ~want~ the 'right' to ban concealed arms? Why do you think guns fall into such an objectionable "category"?

I personally don't want that, nor do I find guns objectionable (see earlier comments). I'm just thinking about a neighbor who might have religious, personal, or other objections to my carrying my gun onto his property. I don't have a problem respecting that. That's all -- I'm saying that my RKBA doesn't necessarily trump his personal property rights -- on HIS property.

I invite guns on my property, whether for sport, personal protection, whatever as long as it's legal activity.

92 posted on 05/01/2007 7:59:31 AM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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