re: #72 dangerman

I should have been clearer..it’s early yet

Public accommodation laws excepted
And I was speaking strictly of the 2a which is pretty clear in the subject

It’s silent on acquiring

It’s late for me (the sun is already up so it’s past my bedtime). I fully expect someone to draw that comparison though.

Libertarians today (and conservatives since they came about) have always opposed public accommodation laws.

The argument I give when someone says something like “well, if that business doesn’t want you, the free market/liberty/name something” says you can take your business elsewhere.

That’s great. I’m an atheist in a town where everyone knows I’m an atheist. If the general store here refuses me service because of religious beliefs, I am forced to go to one of two stores in the county seat sixteen miles away, where everyone also knows I’m an atheist. If they also refuse me service, I’m forced to go to Sidney or Scottsbluff, sixty miles away (and some people know me in both those places).

The reality of “the right to refuse service to anyone” means I could be forced to go shopping for groceries at the Air Force base in Cheyenne 130 miles away.