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octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
Sat Nov 17, 2012, 04:40 PM Nov 2012

Arizona gun store owner bans Obama voters from premises

A gun store owner in Pinetop, Arizona wants you to know that if you’re one of the 736 people in that town who voted for Barack Obama, you’re no longer welcome in his store. According to the Phoenix News-Times, Cope Reynolds, the owner of the Southwest Shooting Authority store, posted a sign and took out a newspaper ad announcing that Obama voters are personae non gratae at his business “effective immediately.”

“If you voted for Barack Obama,” read the ad in the White Mountain Independent, “your business is NOT WELCOME at Southwest Shooting Authority.”

Copeland, whose Facebook page, according to the News-Times, regularly abounds with talk of secession and scorn for “Libtards,” also posted a sign on the door of his shop that reads in all caps, “IF YOU VOTED FOR OBAMA PLEASE TURN AROUND AND LEAVE! YOU HAVE PROVEN THAT YOU ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE ENOUGH TO OWN A FIREARM! Thank you, The Management.”When asked by the News-Times how he intends to identify Obama voters, Reynolds replied that he intends to implement a kind of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.

“Obviously, this is nothing more than a political statement,” he wrote to the paper. “Of course, it would be impossible to enforce. If they don’t say anything, we’ll never know. They could purchase whatever they wanted, and they would probably get a big kick out of thinking that they are rubbing it in our face as they walk out the door. Some folks are easily amused that way.”



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This is so idiotic it made me laugh.
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Arizona gun store owner bans Obama voters from premises (Original Post) octoberlib Nov 2012 OP
He'll be able to tell the Obama GentryDixon Nov 2012 #1
That isn't nice at all. I don't have all my teeth and I voted for Obama. southernyankeebelle Nov 2012 #2
Did not mean it literally. GentryDixon Nov 2012 #4
Well ok that makes me feel better, lol, am not mad. southernyankeebelle Nov 2012 #8
Can we come to your "Going Out of Business Sale", dickhead? TheCowsCameHome Nov 2012 #3
Yet another reason why Loudly Nov 2012 #5
Go to any gun store, look at those drooling over expensive assault/tactical weapons. Hoyt Nov 2012 #6
He's absolutely right, some people are easily amused. Monk06 Nov 2012 #7
Just trying to get attention for his business & a little sour grapes. Shilo Nov 2012 #9

TheCowsCameHome

(40,168 posts)
3. Can we come to your "Going Out of Business Sale", dickhead?
Sat Nov 17, 2012, 04:51 PM
Nov 2012

I hope this guy goes bankrupt before Christmas.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
6. Go to any gun store, look at those drooling over expensive assault/tactical weapons.
Sat Nov 17, 2012, 05:09 PM
Nov 2012

Mostly right wing fanatics arming up.

The gun store owner is not cutting significantly into his market in Arizona. Right wing gun cultists will travel long distances to shoot the shit with another bigot with arms on display.

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