We've all heard in the news that various stores aren't selling types of guns. It's their right of course, even if I personally disagree with it. To me, something lost in this debate is how both the right and left are ignoring their other views when it comes to this. Consistency is politics is a funny thing. We twist and turn our views in order to make them suitable to whatever the hot, trendy issue of the day is.
Retail stores, like bakers, have every right to pick and choose what they want to sell. The left is happy that Wal Mart no longer sells guns to anyone under 21. The same people on the left will jump up and down and go into cardiac arrest if a baker chooses not to decorate a wedding cake for a gay couple. You know where I'm going with this. The right supports the rights of the baker to do what they please, but Wal Mart raising the age when people can buy guns is a threat to the second amendment.
Antonin Scalia said that a good judge will not be happy with every ruling they make. He's exactly right of course. If you want to be logically consistent, you'll come to outcomes that you don't personally like. To me, both the baker and Wal Mart have every right to do what they are doing. Do I agree with either one? No, but my personal views are irrelevant when it comes to what I would require or not require another person to do.
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