Comments on: Flowers sets business back 20 years http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/02/28/flowers-sets-business-back-20-years/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=flowers-sets-business-back-20-years Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 22 May 2013 14:34:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Charles Quitman http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/02/28/flowers-sets-business-back-20-years/#comment-15013 Charles Quitman Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:05:37 +0000 http://msbusiness.com/?p=19894#comment-15013 I think your editorial critical of Senator Merle Flowers’ NRA backed legislation to allow permit holders to carry their guns in restaurants, bars and unsecured government buildings unless the owners of those facilities post notices barring guns got it all wrong.

As you said, “Guns are part of who we are as Americans.” The lack of a sign on a restaurant will not drive me away for fear of honest Americans having guns. Quite the opposite, I feel safer when I know honest Americans are armed. And if I see a sign that says “no guns allowed” as I walk into a restaurant, I’m not going to turn around and walk out. I believe in freedom and that includes the freedom of a business owner to make his own decision even if it is different from mine.

The editorial really has to jump through intellectual hoops to attempt to make this an anti-business bill, which it is not. It sounds as if it is written by someone who actually is not a fan of guns, but reluctant to admit it.

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