Or so go most of the ultra-right sites I get spam from. It happens because every month I sign up for drawings on various sites for chances to win free firearms and ammo. http://www.weapon-blog.com/gun-giveaway-contests/
The spam is moderately entertaining at times but I do find myself frequently :rolleyes:. Particularly because of the presumed linkage between gun ownership and other conservative causes. As I said on another board:
Every so often, I go into one of the (MANY!) local gun stores. I usually notice their ultra-right-wing decor, and walk right out again. They seem to have bought into the linkage you note, and in a big way.
It would be vaguely interesting to open a “liberal friendly” gun shop, with special attention to women’s issues. “Sign our pro-choice petition while you’re here.”
Perhaps slightly more realistic would simply be a “politically neutral” gun shop. “We won’t hassle you with partisan ideological rhetoric; we’re just here to sell you a gun.”
I don’t think I need a gun but could get behind this - you open one and I’ll come shop.
The local gun shop where I bought my pistol is like that. It’s a business without the politics. If I’d heard any bullshit rhetoric, I wouldn’t have bought it there.
I’m glad to hear it. And, to be fair, I haven’t looked inside ALL of the (MANY! did I mention there were many?) local gun shops. So, maybe a couple of bad apples triggered (haw haw) a hasty generalization. I’ll try to watch that: it’s bad logic.
The OP’s last paragraph can be applied to a whole myriad of issues. There’s no particular ideological consistency in the specific bundlings that make up our two party system.
Don’t think I need to do more than post my sig line.
I don’t see why they should avoid it.
If I owned a gun shop, I’d pretend to be a batshit crazy right wing conspiracy theorist.
Paraphrasing one of the many excellent lines from “Clue”, “Right wing extremism is a red herring. Like all members of the oldest profession, I’m a capitalist”.
Thanks to forums, I’ve learned lots of nicknames, like NObama, Obummer, and that you must use his middle name HUSSEIN at every turn (Armed Polite Society explicitly forbids any of those in a sticky, thankfully). Don’t go to a lot of shops, but the Cabela’s, Scheel’s, and Sportsman’s Warehouse guys are professional. I made the mistake of going to a store on the day they decided the 2004 democratic candidate (one that was known for bad service on Yelp and since closed). Thankfully and surprisingly, the person behind the counter only mentioned what happened, and did not seem to lament anything.
I don’t want a liberal or conservative gun store. I just want them to shut the fuck up about politics, just like how I don’t want the music store guy telling me my CD choices suck.
There is Pink Pistols though, a gay group. And I imagine a female-oriented one. I don’t know if any stores have literature, I don’t look.
That wasn’t as weird as the veterinarian whose office was like that! He a “Marriage = 1 man, 1 woman” sticker on the door and even had militia magazines in his waiting room. I should have walked out, but didn’t because my cats eat a prescription food and I was new to town. Didn’t go back, though. Sadly, he seemed like a good vet.
A lot of these guys aren’t just acting like wingnuts. They don’t just drink the cool aid, they buy it wholesale and distribute it retail.
With that said, the gun shop I go to is fairly poltically neutral and is owned by a black dude that voted for Obama (he caught a lot of grief for that from some wingnuts on the internet) and mentioned it when asked during an interview. he also pointed out how good Obama has been for gun culture and gun sales. Gun sales were never this good, even after 9/11. He never signed up so many NRA members in his life, even after the first AWB. Nothing is as good for activism on a constitutional right as someone trying to take it away.
I don’t really value my 3rd amendment right to be free from housing and quartering troops and I probably wouldn’t mind letting a soldier crash on my couch (or a spare bedroom) but the minute they tell me I HAVE to let some soldier crash on my couch, I would have a problem with it.
I don’t know if you are talking about prostitutes but prostitutes generally provide labor not capital.
I had a mechanic like that once. Only he was a racist and not a gaybasher.
It’s nice to the racists finally coming around on issues of gender and sexual preference.
Shortly before the election, I found out about a year-round farmer’s market in a nearby town that had a cafe which received excellent reviews, and decided to go there. The store did have a corner with homeschooling materials and some kind of weird DVDs, in addition to things like water purifiers and solar panels, but I bought a few things anyway, including the best fudge I’ve ever tasted.
I should have looked at their website before I went there, not after I got home, because I would never have gone near that place if I had. The store was a cover for a whole survivalist network, and their politics would make the John Birch Society look like a bunch of commie pinkos. And the weirdest thing about it was that neither the store nor the website took any stand for or against any political candidate or party.