RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

Wait, which is it? Either you've enjoyed seeing movies at the Starlite 
many times, or you're not gonna give money to an institution that puts 
more guns into your community. You can't have it both ways, because it's 
clear from the various articles that the movies and the gun shop are 
complementary revenue streams for a single entity.

Or are you somehow able to make some convuluted rationalization that 
your movie-ticket purchase only supports the drive-in side of the 
business, but donating money for a piece of plywood to rebuild the 
screen would be going beyond that to support the gun shop itself?

Perhaps you're saying that you're not going to attend any more movies at 
the Starlite as long as they're selling guns, assuming the screen is 
rebuilt & the drive-in reopens? If that's the case, perhaps you should 
state that more clearly. As Todd says, you appear to be calling for a 
boycott, but in somewhat vague terms.

I fully support your right to be skeeved and upset about the gun shop, 
but I don't think you can sit tall & proud on that high horse of yours 
unless you're clearer about exactly what it is you intend to do & what 
you'd like the rest of us to do. Because at the moment I, for one, will 
be a little bit peeved if a bunch of us donate the money to rebuild the 
screen & then I run into you at the drive-in next summer.

Ross

Ruby Sinreich wrote:

> I have enjoyed seeing movies at  
> the Starlite many times, but never without some inner conflict about  
> the guns at the snack bar.  Whenever I see a gun, my day usually gets  
> worse.

[ . . . ]

> All I've said is that I don't  
> personally want to give money to an institution that puts more guns  
> into my community.  It's against my religious and my political beliefs.  
>  I'm not gonna do it.