> Al is not in the gun business!

Sorry there, the thread got started yesterday and yes I slipped up with the names.

>
>Reading this thread is unbelievable. People expressing
>opinions that have little to do with Al's post. You all
>might try reading the post before using it to promote
>your pet prejudices

I dont believe there a predjudice here.
WORDS DO HAVE MEANING.
Let me illustrate my point: Lets say that me and my next door neighbor have a disagreement about a parking space. If I say to you ,"Shelly Im going over to my neighbors house to engage in a debate obver the parking space." does that imply aggresion. NO
Now If I said ,"Shelly Im going over to my neighbors house to engage in Combat over the parking space." Does that imply aggression YES.

See words do have meaning!!

Lets say I own a hardware store. I happen to sell crow bars, they are a usefull tool its common for hardware stores to sell crowbars. If a guy walks into my store with army fatigues and I PREJUDGE him and assume that because he is in army fatigues that he is going to use the crowbar for violence and refuse to sell him a crow bar because of his clothes then I would in fact be prejudgeing him. That would be wrong.

I would not do that, I would sell the crowbar to anybody regaurdless of how they are dressed, or look or race or color etc. However if somebody comes into my store and says to me with words, "Can you sell me a crowbar so I can engage in Combat with my next door neighboor?" I would refuse to sell him the crowbar. Because he has given me implication that he is going to harm somebody with it. That is NOT PREJUDGEING him at that point. I am not assuming anything at that point, he has told me what his intentions are. I did not assume he is viloent he has told me that he intends to do harm.

WORDS HAVE MEANING.

Look this is from the origanal post:
"I for one am sick and tired of people assuming just because we are involved with firearms that we are doing something illegal. I also do not believe Dell deserves our business if this is how they intend to treat us."

I dissagree that they refused to sell him the PC because he sells firearms. They refused to sell him the PC because the word Combat implies aggression. WORDS HAVE MEANING.
"Weigand Combat Handguns Inc." The word Combat means to engage with force. there is a difference between,""Weigand Combat Handguns Inc." and "Weigand Handguns Inc." Just like the cases I proposed above....adding the word Combat implies what following actions may be. The word Combat implies agression, if you dont want people to think that your company stands for agression then dont use Combat in the title."

WORDS HAVE MEANING... they clue us in on our intentions.

If it was "Weigand Handguns Inc." there would not have been a problem

Garbru