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« The economy is truly tanking | Main | Utah votes for "John M. Browning Day" »

Wash. Times on Starbucks debate

Posted by David Hardy · 15 March 2010 09:47 AM

Editorial here. Interesting note:

"From sea to shining sea, the climate for guns is changing, and the progress extends beyond Starbucks. Major retailers such as Home Depot, Best Buy and Barnes & Noble apparently also are friendly to people who openly pack heat, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Brady Campaign warns businesses that allowing customers to carry guns will scare away other customers. Yet it seems pretty obvious that the businesses themselves - despite all the pressure they face from trial lawyers and bureaucrats to ban guns - are in a much better position to know what their customers want."

Hat tip to George Mocsary....

An interesting point. We're seeing, simultaneously, (1) an increase in gun sales to record levels, and increases in new gun owners; (2) Collapsing poll figures for public belief that guns are bad and gun restrictions are good; (3) legislatures predictably pulling away from those ideas, as well, and (4) the judiciary (and not just the Supreme Court, either) endorsing gun-related rights. It's hard to say which is cause and which is effect, or whether all are being driven by some manner of collective consciousness.

3 Comments | Leave a comment

dad29 | March 15, 2010 1:21 PM | Reply

Your "collective consciousness" thought is provocative. I have the same little red flag waving in the back of my mind, too.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, AR's, ammo, and handguns are selling like hotcakes?

What event stirred that expenditure, even in the face of a serious recession?

wuzzagrunt | March 15, 2010 5:24 PM | Reply

"The Brady Campaign warns businesses that allowing customers to carry guns will scare away other customers."

Having briefly worked in a B&N store, I would suggest the customers that are scared away are not the type to buy much, anyway. They are the ones who will buy a small coffee that they nurse for hours, while they read Chomsky for free. These are not kids, either. That's my unscientific observation, at least.

Don Hamrick | March 16, 2010 4:57 PM | Reply

CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE CONFIRMS!

Louis Fisher, Interpreting the Constitution:
More than What the Supreme Court Says
, Congressional Research Services (Fall 2008) finds the SAME effect essentially saying that the U.S. Supreme Court does NOT have the final word in constitutional interpretation, not even Congress, but the American People!


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