Some people really are willing to cut off their nose to spite their face:
A gun shop in Arizona has a clear message to would-be customers who happened to vote for President Barack Obama: take your business elsewhere.
The Southwest Shooting Authority in Pinetop, Ariz. took out an advertisement last week in the local newspaper, the White Mountain Independent, that spelled out the store’s new policy in explicit terms.
“If you voted for Barack Obama your business is not welcome at Southwest Shooting Authority,” the ad reads. “You have proven that you are not responsible enough to own a firearm.”
Then again, perhaps he lives in a solidly Mitt district so this is all for show and a publicity stunt. Either way, it makes him look like a three year old having a temper tantrum.
So, first of all, how would he know who voted for who. What he is really saying is “I won’t do any business with those dirty Mexicans.”
Secondly, it is not as if there aren’t a ton of other gun shops in AZ for people to go to. And there are a lot of Democrats that own guns, specially in AZ. He may think he is going to get a lot of extra business from Romney voters, but I bet his sales go down.
He’s probably hoping for the “Chik-Fil-A Effect”. A whole bunch of gullible people rushing out to make their statement that they hate the black guy in White House by buying shit from a guy who knows just how many suckers and stupid people live around him.
H.L Mencken hit it on the head.
“No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
This. It’s a tourist town of 4,000 about 4 hours drive northeast of Phoenix—with most of that drive being through a national forest.
Although the county as a whole did vote for Obama.
It’s become a knee jerk response, “Democrats want to take my guns.” Some do, some don’t. Very Liberal Howard Dean said that he thought gun control should be a state issue because, for example, largely urban Massachusetts had a very different situation from largely rural Vermont. I greatly doubt that any prominent Arizona Democrat wants to ban guns. Republican voters have become Pavlov’s dogs, hence, I suppose, the term “dog whistle”.
That’s fine. I wouldn’t want to be around people who are armed and hate me. In fact, I wish all wingnuts would advertise themselves so I could take my business elsewhere.
Well in Randolph County NC (Richard Petty country), there is a shop that does loans and sells guns. Nobody could imagine what could go wrong there.
He’s boycotting himself?
Holy cats, that’s dumb.
I would have thought an Obama buyer would have instead been charged 2x the going rate rather than just be denied a purchase.
Course his fall back of ‘responsibility’ is curious.
With leadership jumping ship on Mitt fast and furious, how are these duped voters going to start reacting? A sale on guns to shoot at their own leadership? At Franklin Graham? Regardless, they’re pissed and they’re armed. Only question left is which way are they going to point the guns?
Oh no! How are we going to keep the liberal population under control if they can no longer hang out with idiots in a room full of guns?