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  • From: "Todd Morman" <tmorman AT nc.rr.com>
  • To: "RTP-area local music and culture" <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: Ditch the guns II
  • Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 21:08:26 -0400

Brian:

"To me the *main* point of the two letters in the Indy is to let anyone
who is donating money and time to the 'Save the Starlite' cause that
their money &/or time MIGHT be used to support a business that sells
guns."

Fair enough. I just want to know, Brian, if you knew that the gun shop
supported the drive-in (rather than the other way around) *before* you wrote
your letter. From what you and Ruby have written about this, it doesn't seem
like either of you got that before you complained. I'd also like to know,
just out of curiosity, if you know the letter writer from Durham. It
surprised me that Ruby blogged this without mentioning that her boyfriend
(you, right?) had written the first Indy letter. Note that I'm not
discounting your point; I'd just like to know if the two letters were also
linked in some way. I was also mildly annoyed by Ruby's unfair framing of
the debate (not all of us are "burying our heads in the sand," thank you,
but have long supported the right to buy and own certain guns), but that's a
separate issue.

Regardless, what you're asking for here, it seems to me, is a boycott of
anyone who sells guns in America today. That's fine, but why not be, er,
transparent about it? Have you and/or Ruby been to the Starlite in the past?
If so, how did you justify giving the owner money at the time, since you're
obviously opposed to "a business that sells guns"? And would you attend in
the future? These aren't snippy questions; I'm really trying to sort this
out intelligently.

todd glad you and Ruby started this conversation morman





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