The right to keep and bear arms is preserved in the Second Amendment. That implies that we have a right to obtain those arms in some manner. That means gun stores.
However, all too often, gun stores open to outrage and protests, usually from the same people who have no issue with mosques opening up.
I bring this up for a reason, which I'll get into in a moment. For now, let's look at the outrage in Kentucky over a gun store's opening.
A gun store set to come to the Highlands has many in the neighborhood on edge. For the last seven weeks, every Saturday morning, a group of protestors has been setting up along Bardstown Road outside where the store is supposed to be.
The shop called Madden Firearms is set to open at the Bardstown Center, located at 2525 Bardstown Rd., Suite 104.
The band of neighbors, including Tim Darst are hopeful they can change the owner’s mind about coming to the area.
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The spot the store is supposed to open is zoned for commercial use. Gun stores in Kentucky are not required to get a local or state permit to sell firearms.
“We have three synagogues and ten schools within one mile of here,” Darst said. “We’ve had lots of shootings at schools and synagogues. We just don’t want to do anything to help encourage that.”
To his credit, Darst did say that the owner had a right to open his store there, but that he hoped he would open it elsewhere.
But the fact that he thinks churches or schools being nearby plays a factor is...interesting. Especially as there aren't really a lot of examples of someone buying a gun at a gun store, then committing a mass shooting at the nearest school or house of worship. It's just not how that works 99 percent of the time, and I'm lowballing here.
I also find it interesting that someone like Darst would likely never consider saying that to someone interested in opening a mosque, even in a neighborhood that had been impacted by Islamic terrorism.
To be sure, the First Amendment protects people's right to worship as they please, which implies the right to open mosques, even in places where many of us would rather they weren't, but to even suggest you're uncomfortable with a mosque--many of which are known recruiting grounds for terrorists, both here and abroad--you're a terrible person in the eyes of the left.
But to oppose a gun store, which will have to comply with a litany of regulations in order to remain in business, including not knowingly facilitating illegal acts, is righteous?
Recruiting terrorists is good; arming regular Americans in a place that's a little too close to people who can't buy anything anyway isn't.
I swear, the left gets more ridiculous with each passing day.
This is far from the first protest to a gun store opening, either. They want to relegate gun stores to the ghetto, then they want to use their proximity to high-crime areas--the only places they wouldn't get protested for opening near--as grounds to shut them down.
And they think we're not smart enough to see it.
Maybe it's time to play the same game with mosques. We'll see how they like it.
