{"id":1579,"date":"2012-07-26T11:56:55","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T16:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2012-07-26T11:56:55","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T16:56:55","slug":"how-to-lose-the-high-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=1579","title":{"rendered":"How to lose the high ground"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve talked here a few times about how it’s sometimes frustrating that a business has different views on civil rights than I do. When the owner of several popular local restaurants spearheaded a campaign to derail restaurant carry, I mocked him and stopped going to his restaurants.<\/p>\n

When Costco employees freaked out about a guy with a CCW to the point they had him killed by police<\/a>, I cancelled my membership.<\/p>\n

When Regions Bank banned carry permit holders from their branches, I closed my accounts after 14 years of doing business with them<\/a>. When my new bank did the same thing a year later<\/a>, I moved my money again.<\/p>\n

When looking for furniture, I don’t shop at American Signature Furniture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I don’t do business with businesses that don’t support my rights. I encourage others not to do business with them, by explaining my reasoning.<\/p>\n

You know what I don’t do?<\/p>\n

I don’t try to deny their right to do business via force of government<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I don’t lobby the government to deny them the right to buy land<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And I sure as hell don’t wish death upon their customers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Honestly that last one is the worst, and I’m afraid that’s where its going in this case. Instead of just not eating there<\/i> and using a perhaps-effective boycott, they’re going to turn to demonizing the people who do<\/i> eat there. It’s a new low, going after consumers of a product who’s producer hold views you don’t agree with.<\/p>\n

It’s days like this that remind me why I’m not on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve talked here a few times about how it’s sometimes frustrating that a business has different views on civil rights than I do. When the owner of several popular local restaurants spearheaded a campaign to derail restaurant carry, I mocked him and stopped going to his restaurants. When Costco employees freaked out about a guy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scorecards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}