"Let's say you live in a small town and the gun-shop is the only one for hundreds of kilometers."
Gay man wants divorce for burnt toast and shop owner is Catholic . The man has just had drink drive test for 1.8 blood alcohol and wants to drown husband in blood bath from 2 boxes of ammo. Shop owner on bended knees begs forgiveness for not selling pistol , gay gets cop to arrest shop owner , opens strong box and puts 52 pistols on Visa.
Owner has heart attack and is taken to morgue.

Doesn't work Nick, you forgot the Permit to Obtain and the consequent waiting period.

No , looked that up , Cecil has it all in his pocket and can still hold pistol enough to get 1 shot in 6 at Humphrey.

To Yuyutsu.

This comes down to the rights of the costumer, verses the rights of the business owner/ service worker.

Who has more rights the customer demanding a service? Or the business owner to run their businesses they see fit. Does a service of any kind have the right to refuse service to a costumer?

My figuring would be that it should depend on the service. Medicine and the utilities are services that should be equally given. If you can pay for it you can have it. Cake isn't a nessassary service, even if it is the only one in a small town.

To those demanding a cake being served.

Worth noting is a suprising rule. Turns out some businesses hold a higher expense to rude patrons and a discount to polite costumers. It happens. Probabley usually only with small self owned businesses. But it happens none the less. The ability to serve or deny service is an extension of this in my opinion.

Not_Now.Soon,

I've known a number of small businesses that had a sliding scale for politeness.
It is also good practice to always be polite to policemen and dentists, I've known policemen who responded to politeness, can't say personally about dentists.

One policeman that I know well told me that he pulled a woman up for going a bit fast and was just going to give her a bit of a caution, when he got to the window she said,
"Well, get it over with, I'm in a (blank) hurry!"

So he booked her and radioed ahead to the next patrol to keep an eye out.

Leoj, the sanctimonious white supremacists, nothing like a bit of your good old, rather feigned anger, when it comes to comments posted by Foxy and/or myself, from any progressive for that matter. A sarcastic comment by me in response to the opening post, is met with another one of your cynical attacks, this time its phoney indignation concerning racism. A quick read of your forum rants, shows what a racists you really are. My mock reference to "..the nice little Asian girl" claimed by you as being patronising, inappropriate and offensive is typical of you, the person who hides behind a so called moderate position on the point in question, what ever it be, but at the same time pushes a hard right barrow on everything from race to homosexuality. I have no concern for the opinions of a fraudulent blowhard such as yourself.