Discussion: 20-Year-Old Files Suits Against Dick's, Walmart For Refusing To Sell Him A Gun

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13, 14 and 15 pretty much eliminated the 10th, I do believe.

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But, according to the prevailing argument, to sell or not to sell would be at the discretion of the seller in citing their “deeply held” religious beliefs. The Supreme Court is going to get a taste of the ol’ slippery slope argument when the hear these cases.

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Unless I’ve missed one, the anti-gay bakers all lost their cases. Hobby Lobby’s winning argument was about employees, not customers.

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Absolutely.

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Sounds like a crisis actor to me

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Dicks should say it’s a religious objection for them and all would be OK.

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Couldn’t happen to a better crew.

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But if he had walked into a christian bakery and asked for a gun-shaped cake?

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Yay, another embarrassing asshole from my state.

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Be glad you’re not from Oklahoma.

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Oregon sued the shit out of the anti-gay bigot bakers and won.

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Not really understanding how dipsh*t’s counsel proves to the court that their client has suffered some sort of injury due to Dick’s actions. He still retains his 2nd Amend. rights only that he can’t exercise them at Dick’s. What’s the problem - oh, other than NRA stunt.

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Maybe not. When I first heard the announcement from Dick’s and Wal*Mart it seemed inevitable that they would be sued.

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Exactly. He’s not in a protected class, so discrimination is okey-dokey. The protected class for age is people over 40.

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Age isn’t a protected class and there isn’t really any such thing as age discrimination. Otherwise why couldn’t 15 year olds claim it was discrimination that they aren’t allowed to drink?

I don’t think this will win, especially if it keeps going through courts.

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“Your honor, it is my deeply-held religious belief that kids under 21 years old cannot hit a bull in the butt with a bass fiddle. Not even with the finest telescopic sights. Perhaps Hobby Lobby can sell him the parts necessary to make a wooden practice gun that he can play with until he’s 21.”

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maybez, maybe not

Though it wasn’t their 1st case that involved the 14th, gotta remember that the Supremes shat the bed, as it related to this particular one.

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Gunmen get punitive damages.

Law-abiding Americans get to buy body bags for their children.

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An utterly transparent attempt by the gun lobby to create a “civil right” on the thinnest of pretexts. Are they really going to argue that this 20 yr old is on the same moral plane as Rosa Parks and that he was forced to go to the back of the ‘gun buyers bus’ because of his age?

For their next trick, they are going to claim that this 20 yr old has the same as standing as a gay couple being refused a wedding cake by a bakery based on the cake maker’s religious beliefs.
(This will be their next claim, wait for it.)

The level of misguided self entitlement on display here is limitless. If we could pump them to a refinery and make fuel out it our energy problems would be fixed - and their complaints would finally be used for a productive end.

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Simple solution: Walmart and Dick’s in Oregon should just start selling marijuana.

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