The couple mentioned in the article signed a contract with the HOA so I can understand why, legally, they lost their appeal to the courts, however...
iminaquagmire said:
That's effin' rediculous. I didn't mind all the bans in restaurants and bars, but when they started banning smoking in the streets, in cars, and now our own homes, I, well I don't even know what to say it pisses me off so much.
I'm on your side, but consider this. Once you "accepted" the government telling you what you can do with your private property (restaurants and bars), your home as a castle was doomed.
Bloofington said:
Ahhhhhhh, why don't we just say it once and for all? ...Some day you won't be allowed to smoke.
It won't be because tobacco is made illegal. It'll be be because your ability to use a
legal product has been curtailed through regulation.
It's the same type of threat that gun owners and 2nd Amendment supporters face. If the gun haters and victim disarmament supporters can't get their way through an outright Government BAN, they'll try to save you from your evil ways by regulating where you can buy guns, when you can buy guns, where you can shoot, what you can shoot, what kind of ammo you can use, etc. They'll close your
restaurants ranges for "environmental" or "public health and safety" reasons, make
tobacco ammo so expensive you won't be able to afford it, etc. Sound familiar?
Note the location of the aforementioned condominium association. It's the same area of the country where
the greenies are trying to shut down public shooting ranges on forest lands.
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