Gun Shop Hangs Confederate Flag Back Up, Begins Selling Them (CA)

[struggle4progress]

POSTED 10:36 PM, OCTOBER 6, 2015
BY DOUG JOHNSON

... "You don't get my business. I don't want to come there, I don't want to buy a gun from there," said Keisha Thomas, a human rights activist. &quot That flag) represents hate, it represents terror." ... Thomas was in Sacramento Tuesday night, speaking to the Congregation B'nai Israel in Sacramento ... "It's your First Amendment right, anything goes," Thomas said ... In 1996 she gained national attention for a Life Magazine photo, showing her saving the life of a Ku Klux Klan supporter. While the man was being beaten by a mob during a protest in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Thomas threw herself on top of him to stop others from attacking him ...

http://fox40.com/2015/10/06/elk-grove-gun-shop-hangs-confederate-flag-back-up-begins-selling-them/

[sharp_stick]

1. I use the presence of the Confederate

flag on a business as a nice note that the owners/managers are small minded assholes that don't need my business. I'd rather they fly it than try to hide it.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

2. It's liberal baiting

Plain and simple. The shop owners know that the Stars & Bars angers a certain segment of the population, while simultaneously winking at their target audience.