So how does Mr. Moral High Ground feel about dealers at shows who display inflammatory literature and bumper stickers? Frankly, I find them despicable and they basically negate any positive effect from the money I donate to the NRA or other groups and I feel dirty even supporting Second Amendment rights for people like that. Do you ever get into their face/s and tell them to stop doing that ?
Is there any other moral ground than the high ground?
To me though, there is a difference between what private businesses choose to sell/display, or what people choose to wear/display VS a government mandated policy. If you find a store despicable, or the NRA to be dirty and nasty, DON'T SUPPORT IT! We have "Pink Palaces" and strip joints scattered about. They "display stuff I don't want my kids to see"..... But they're THERE.... All's I need to do is take my kids elsewhere....
I find it reprehensible (but not detestable/despicable
) that a person would choose to wear a shirt in public emblazoned with "Fxxx The Pigs" or the like. But I won't confront them on it. But again, this is personal. I also dislike the "F Cancer" shirts with the huge FXXX emblazoned..... but respect the rights and feelings of a person suffering the personal horror of The Big C.
I use words like detestable, despicable, abhorrent with care.......only when I feel innocent people are being hurt do I feel these appellations to be appropriate, in this case children killed, murdered. I stated here and elsewhere back when "Gun Free Zones" were becoming a thing that people would be murdered over this. And they have been.
Mandated, explicitly advertised "Gun Free Zones" are detestable to me. But ignoring them, ignoring mandated law is also not acceptable in my view.
BTW, in no case are these words/phrases meant to be construed as personal affronts or judgments. I find certain LAWS and certain ACTIONS to be detestable. For instance, I find public urination to be detestable....and the laws against it to be perfectly acceptable. I'm not against public decency laws (although these are most commonly ordinances)
I took a stand against the laws in WA State, I had a meeting with state officials here on my property, in my schoolroom that went late into the night concerning the fact that my classroom was now to be "a gun free zone" and that due to another law we would be forced to do background checks on students before we could legally let them use class-supplied firearms under supervision...... One of the functions of my classroom is for Hunter Education. A law was passed in (2014??) by the people of WA (594) that states that we can't even borrow or loan guns without a background check. I live in a WA certified property and we conduct "Range Days" in my yard. I've got the signs out right now..... Through the years we have (legally) used personal firearms, class-purchased firearms, donated firearms and now State Supplied and "registered" firearms for this effort. I stated that I WOULD NOT ignore the new laws, either of them. Myself and the teachers I work with are the only people I've met who agree with this stance. Statewide, the consensus was that making us teachers "exempt" and excluding our situations from the law is/was acceptable. As I said, the Atty General gave us all carte blanche to just "ignore the 594 law." But instead I said "I quit." I will not operate outside the law because some official says I can.
This way lies madness.
