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You can buy guns but not sex toys in this Georgia town

I always thought Americans were great at improvisation. Who says a gun can't be a sex toy too?
 
sangha said:
There is no ban on owning sex toys. The ban is on selling them
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Do you think this topic stands alone in that area?
 
fmw said:
"You can buy guns but not sex toys in this Georgia town"

Government needs to stop sticking its nose where it doesn't belong.
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Let's all grab an axe, and prune it back.

WAY BACK!

:fueltofir
 
sangha said:
Do you think "The govt does it, so it's OK" is a good argument?
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No, but I deal with it all the time from liberals on this forum.
 
Tanngrisnir said:
No, that hypocrisy is only in your fetid imagination.

The point was that in the Land of the Free, it's absolute absurdity to allow perfectly legal sales of by far the more deadly of the two and ban the sales of the other, designed solely for sexual pleasure.

The hypocrisy is on the part of the people who passed this and those who share their mindset in mouthing platitudes and paying lip-service to liberty, but never actually living out that principle. In a free society that walked it like it talked it, they'd both be legal for purchase by adults.

Not even remotely surpised that concept is lost on you.
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Maybe the town folk don't want their kids exposed to smut. Oh the horror. :roll:
 
Glen Contrarian said:
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoooooooooosh!

No, you never did get the point. You're so wrapped up in your gun fetish that you can't see that the world's growing up and leaving y'all behind.
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Evidently you're so wrapped up in your butt plug fetish, you are blind to constitutional rights. :shrug:
 
Hari Seldon said:
Why can't there be both? Why are cons so interested in peoples sex lives?
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I have no problem with sex toys, but I also have no problem if a small town doesn't want their kids exposed to smut. What's the big deal?
 
countryboy said:
Where are sex toys usually sold? Please don't ask stupid questions.
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Why, at comic book an candy stores, of course!

Adult bookstores (or whatever they're called where you're from) have strict rules (if not state laws) prohibiting minors from entering. Or in other venues they can be in 18 and above only sections.

This isn't rocket science, sport. Why do you hate freedom?
 
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I've been led to believe that guns are sex toys.
 
Glen Contrarian said:
Why am I not surprised?

A federal appeals court has upheld a ban on the sale of sex toys in Sandy Springs, Georgia — but acknowledged the decision probably won’t stand, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

A panel of three judges on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta made the decision, saying they had no choice but to follow a 2004 case precedent.

But they believe that decision, a similar ban in Alabama, was wrong. They encouraged plaintiffs in the case to continue pursuing it in order to set a new precedent.

AJC reports the new take on the matter reflects the fact that last year’s Obergefell ruling legalizing same-sex marriage in all 50 states has pushed courts further away from making decisions dictating what people do in their bedrooms.

Sandy Springs passed the controversial ordinance in 2009 — which prompted MSNBC to observe that while Georgians can carry guns around almost anywhere, they can’t buy sex toys without a doctor’s note.

Per the ordinance, “device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs is obscene material.”

Two residents sued over the ordinance, calling it unconstitutional.
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Interesting take there Glen or was this just a fishing expedition? Because you left out important parts (along with any original thought or arguements posted in the OP)
“We feel that this is really the government intruding on people’s private, intimate, sexual activity,” their attorney, Gerry Weber told MSNBC. “We are asking a judge to find the ordinances unconstitutional because of that.”

He called the law both “ironic” and “absurd,” adding, “If the government is not in our gun racks, it certainly should not be in our bedrooms.”
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This is exactly what you have been advocating against gun owners. Substitute "intimate, sexual activity" with private property self defense and that is what you have been against and most importantly the government IS in our "gun racks".
 
Glen Contrarian said:
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoooooooooosh!

No, you never did get the point. You're so wrapped up in your gun fetish that you can't see that the world's growing up and leaving y'all behind.
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But I see your hypocrisy "gun fetish" :roll:
 
countryboy said:
I have no problem with sex toys, but I also have no problem if a small town doesn't want their kids exposed to smut. What's the big deal?
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Not so small a town. I don't want my kids exposed to cigarettes but its the price you pay in a free society. Who gets to define what "smut" is anyway. Frankly its about personal responsibility. You don't want your kids exposed teach them your values and keep them away. How many sex shops can a town of 100,000 support? If a significant majority truly are against it and don't patronize the place it probably won't be in business very long.

I think its a big deal. (get it) We still have blue laws here in NY related to liquor sales. Why should I be forced to wait until 12 to buy beer for Sunday football? Or be unable to order a mimosa at Sunday brunch? Fortunately here in NY the time is now 10am but its still ridiculous. Government shouldn't be in the business of imposing religious values on its constituency.
 
countryboy said:
Evidently you're so wrapped up in your butt plug fetish, you are blind to constitutional rights. :shrug:
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Actually, y'all have forgotten how to read with a critical eye, 'cause y'all completely ignore the entire first phrase of the 2A...and so y'all have elevating gun ownership to something approaching religious gospel, never realizing that the purpose of the 2A was to support the creation and maintenance of state militias (since there was a great debate at the time as to whether we should have a standing army at all). Now, however, we have a standing army, and so the state militias are unnecessary.

The 2A makes clear that the purpose of "the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" is to support the viability of state militias - there's NOTHING there about "self-defense". We have no more state militias. If you want to refer to the National Guard as a state militia, then the ownership of firearms by those who belong to that National Guard should not be infringed. But y'all really need to stop ignoring that first phrase, because that first phrase gives the entire reason for the second phrase. If the necessity of the first phrase has gone away, then the second phrase no longer has any authority.

But I know I'm wasting my time - y'all will continue to ignore the first phrase and how it affects the meaning of the 2A as a whole in obvious accordance to the rules of the English language.
 
countryboy said:
I have no problem with sex toys, but I also have no problem if a small town doesn't want their kids exposed to smut. What's the big deal?
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Use shades on the windows and allow only over 18 in, then. Problem solved and gov't intrusion not used.
 
MACS-24 said:
Interesting take there Glen or was this just a fishing expedition? Because you left out important parts (along with any original thought or arguements posted in the OP)
This is exactly what you have been advocating against gun owners. Substitute "intimate, sexual activity" with private property self defense and that is what you have been against and most importantly the government IS in our "gun racks".
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You missed the point, too.

Not surprised.
 
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