{"id":1068,"date":"2017-09-10T19:48:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T19:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2017-09-10T19:48:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T19:48:22","slug":"primantis-and-the-second-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/primantis-and-the-second-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Primanti\u2019s and the Second Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Post-Gazette has an article<\/a> about some people deciding not to eat at Primatin’s during the NRA convention.\u00a0 Apparently, while working their way across the country, a gun-control group stopped in and took their picture with some of the staff.<\/p>\n

While I’ve never been inclined to take my picture with the staff at Primanti’s, I grew up here, so it’s just a regular place I go to eat, something I probably take for granted.\u00a0 While I think this falls under tourism more than activism…I actually agree with the NRA-type folks on the underlying issue.\u00a0 And coming from a pacifist, that is saying a lot!<\/p>\n

There are a few stores I don’t shop at because of the major political donations they have made.\u00a0 That’s my choice.\u00a0 Some of my friends think I’m crazy, because the small amount that I spend, really, in the grand scheme of things, won’t make a difference to those huge conglomerates.<\/p>\n

And they are right: it won’t.\u00a0 But I’m not going to give money to the stores that are actively trying to take away my rights.\u00a0 And I would hope that everyone else does the same.\u00a0 That is, does some research and finds out what stores support which issues, and vote with your wallet.<\/p>\n

And as far as the famously over stuffed sandwiches are concerned:<\/p>\n

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As far as Primanti Bros. is concerned, perhaps the only customers who should feel unwanted there are dieters.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Post-Gazette has an article about some people deciding not to eat at Primatin’s during the NRA convention.\u00a0 Apparently, while working their way across the country, a gun-control group stopped in and took their picture with some of the staff. While I’ve never been inclined to take my picture with the staff at Primanti’s, I grew up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pittsburgh-metblogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2278,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/2278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}