wrearick
Regular Member
I truely appreciate the wealth of legal knowledge here on the forum and I have what is probably a dumb question but I will ask anyway. I could spend hours researching an answer that others here could provide in the time it takes to type it.
So here we go. I understand that in our countries past, not all rights were afforded to everyone. The right for women to vote, slavery, segregation, are all things that I am glad have been addressed. I believe most of the were through constitutional ammendments but I could be very wrong.
Jump to today and I hear the argument that buisness owners can prohibit firearms in their buisnesses. Doesn't that allow a individual to take away my 2nd ammendment rights? A buisness owner could not choose to refuse to sell to a certain sect or race of people (Arab, Catholics, Venezualians) in a public business. They have to form a private club or members only establishment and carefully control those they allow to become members. If someone tried to ban a certain group of people there would be a cry and hue about their rights being denied.
I am serious in my question - I really don't understand. .... Why do we have to chose to shop elsewhere as our only recourse when our 2nd ammendment "right" is infringed by a buisness owner? Help me understand why it is okay to tell me I can't come in if I am exercising my right but they can't tell me I can't come in due to my color or beliefs because I have that right if they are going to do buisness with the general public.
thanks,
So here we go. I understand that in our countries past, not all rights were afforded to everyone. The right for women to vote, slavery, segregation, are all things that I am glad have been addressed. I believe most of the were through constitutional ammendments but I could be very wrong.
Jump to today and I hear the argument that buisness owners can prohibit firearms in their buisnesses. Doesn't that allow a individual to take away my 2nd ammendment rights? A buisness owner could not choose to refuse to sell to a certain sect or race of people (Arab, Catholics, Venezualians) in a public business. They have to form a private club or members only establishment and carefully control those they allow to become members. If someone tried to ban a certain group of people there would be a cry and hue about their rights being denied.
I am serious in my question - I really don't understand. .... Why do we have to chose to shop elsewhere as our only recourse when our 2nd ammendment "right" is infringed by a buisness owner? Help me understand why it is okay to tell me I can't come in if I am exercising my right but they can't tell me I can't come in due to my color or beliefs because I have that right if they are going to do buisness with the general public.
thanks,