baldeagle wrote:WinoVeritas wrote:I'm liberal and I always CC in Costco. I no more care where they send their money than I do where Hobby Lobby sends theirs. My wallet does my purchasing and I have no intentions of cutting off my nose to spite my face. I wouldn't have many places to shop in Texas if I allowed politics to rule my purchases.
Every person has to make that decision for themselves. For me personally, I refuse to do business with companies who would deny me my rights, and I refuse to patronize people who would do so. Therefore I do not watch certain movies, because the actors in them are openly hostile to my beliefs. For example, I will not watch anything that Alec Baldwin is a part of.
My life, my choice.
My own position falls somewhere between these two. There ARE places I do boycott.....the Grapevine Mills Mall for instance, which is posted 30.06. OTH, I agree with WinoVeritas that I can't cut off my nose to spite my face. I honestly have NO idea how most of the owners/managers/employees feel about my RKBA in most of the businesses I enter, and part of being a
discreet CHL is not making a big deal of asking how they feel about guns when I enter the store. If I don't see a sign that has any
legal effect on me ("gun-buster" signs don't count), then I enter. If they are posted with a 30.06 compliant sign, then I do not enter. Simple. As for entertainment, well, it kind of depends on the subject of the movie. Matt Damon is no friend to American gun owners, but I WILL be going to see "The Martian" because it is (according to gun owning pro-carry friends of mine who've seen it) an excellent movie on a topic that interests me. I have friends at my church - which is overall a pretty conservative church where most members are 2nd Amendment supporters - who are not very pro-2nd Amendment. What am I going to do? Never speak to them again? My Jesus is bigger than that. They are wrong on that issue, but I still love them. My own mother hates guns and thinks they should be gotten rid of the way Great Britain did. I still love her. If I made an issue everywhere I went out of guns and my right to carry them, I would pretty soon run out of places to do business with. So I only deal with it in those instances where a given business has
directly affected
me.
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