grylnsmn
Regular Member
Oh, kay ...
A privately held event that deprives me of the ability to use a park for which I pay tax dollars???? I didn't know in what universe a City choosing to give up my rights for a few dollars was "...not violating rights..." -- but sounds like you and the AG are on the same page.
If I reserve a baseball field in a public park for a game between my company's team and another company's team, then that also deprives you of the ability to use that field for which you pay tax dollars while we are using it. How is this any different? Such reservations are open to everyone on a first-come-first-served basis.
By your argument, if we reserved a picnic area at Burke Lake Park for an Open Carry picnic, a group of antis could arrive there earlier in the day to block us from using it, because our reservation would be "depriv[ing] [them] of the ability to use a park for which [they] pay tax dollars." It really does cut both ways.
As much as we dislike the result in that use case, it has a solid legal basis.