Freedom includes the occasional feeling of discomfort about something. So?

Posted by $ winterwind 10 years, 11 months ago to Culture
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I saw a little article zip by with the title of "Chipotle: Don't bring your guns into our stores". I really wanted to say something intelligent about it, and all I could think of was well, if you decide to call your organization "Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America", you might get "action" of a kind you didn't necessarily expect.
In fact, the existence and probable actions of an organization with such a name is probably part of what led to people carrying guns in to lunch. So I guess the Moms succeeded?
hmmm.

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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 10 years, 11 months ago
    Moms demand... It's unfortunate you see this but rarely see "dads demand". It's as if you become some special breed when you have a baby and you're a woman. My wife thinks people consider this when evaluating her firm, to as customers or potential employees, that the owners is a "mom". I'm not sure that's true, but she often gets the feeling people have a complex set of notions about her simply because we have kids.. notions they don't have about me.

    A true story is a group they partnered with to do seminars decided to use a different attorney. Probably looking for innocuous reasons, one of them said, "now that you have a baby, you're probably less focused on growth at the moment." or something like that. In less than a year they approached her and said they wanted to do the seminars again. She was magnanimous about it and said yes, and now the deal is working for both parties. The other group learned that a woman having a baby does not mean she neglects her business.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 10 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The comment above is in favor of gun rights and is on a post about gun rights. Someone voted it down. What's that about?
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  • Posted by Maphesdus 10 years, 11 months ago
    A gun free zone is a defense free zone.

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    "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms [...] only disarm those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one."
    ~ Cesare Beccaria, "Essay on Crimes and Punishments" (frequently misattributed to Thomas Jefferson)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Crimes_a...
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