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Originally Posted by pan6467
So you are comparing a person's being, their ethnicity, to a thing they have an option to carry?????
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People have a constitutionally protected right not to be discriminated against and denied service based upon their ethnicity. People also have a constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms. A private individual infringing upon either of those rights is violating the civil rights of the person being discriminated against. Does the nature of the enumerated civil liberty or the number of the amendment it is contained in affect its protected status?
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It's this mentality in your post that truly makes me anti-gun and pro-gun law.
Second amendment be damned..... I have the right to refuse service to anyone, and I have the right to have my employees work by rules I apply so long as I break no labor laws...... last time I checked having a gun at work was not a labor law or protected under such.
I have many rights guaranteed me by the Constitution.... but they stop whereupon they may infringe upon another's right. My right to not allow guns in my business supercedes any right to ignore it and carry a gun on my property.
Come to my business carrying a gun.... I ask you to leave.... you choose to stay, I call the cops, whose side do you think they will take?
Are you an idiot???? I'm sorry but comparing not wanting someone carrying a gun on my property to racism and prejudiced.... is the stupidest thing I have read on here.
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Where did I say that? What you are suggesting with the gun bit is not violating somebody's civil liberties based upon racism, it's violating somebody's civil liberties based upon hoplophobia. Either way, it's a violation of their constitutionally protected civil liberties. The only difference is your motivation. And the argument for not allowing gays, african-americans, and other groups of people on your property is the same as the argument you present here...that it's your private property, and you can discriminate against whomever you choose to. All you should have to do to see this is change "gun" to "gay" or "african-american" in your argument.
If you open your property to the public and then violate part of that public's civil liberties, you will eventually be called upon it. You do have the option of not allowing guns or gays or african-americans on your property, all you have to do is to close it to the public.