Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: guns and cigarettes

[Elizabeth Stevenson (tamgoddess]

We issue a hunting rifle and handgun to every new family, with a coupon for
a carton of cigs as a little housewarming gift.

Uh, just kidding. I don't remember if we ever had a gun policy. (David?) I
know we talked about it before we moved in, but we must have agreed not to
allow them, or I'd remember an argument about it. I am fairly certain nobody
here owns one. In other parts of the country, it's more if a sticky wicket.
I'm sure someone will chime in-wasn't there a group in NC that had a big
issue over this?

As for smoking, it is not allowed in the common house. We have no smokers
currently, but have had a few in the past.  People are. of course, free to
do as they please in their own homes. Smoking is allowed outside, contrary
to some members faulty memories, but it is so rare that sometimes people are
startled by it. We often have outside groups come into the community to use
the CH, and there was at least one instance of a member chastising a visitor
for smoking after someone here had said it was ok. That was embarrassing.
The majority of us feel that it is far more important for guests to feel
comfortable than worry about the rare instance of outdoor smoking.

I was going to make another gun joke, but the first one was a bit much in
the current climate. I'll just sign off.

-- 
Liz Stevenson
Southside Park Cohousing
Sacramento, California
tamgoddess [at] attbi.com

> From: Rosa Leah <rosa [at] homeport.org>
> Reply-To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 13:15:51 -0400 (EDT)
> To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Subject: [C-L]_guns and cigarettes
> 
> My cohousing community is in the process of working towards have a set of
> policies/guidelines that will apply once we've moved in.  We just finished
> a pet policy, and we're now starting to think about guns (or, more
> broadly, weapons?) and cigarettes.  We'll be doing each of these
> separately, even if they'll all be addressed by the BATF if it ever comes
> up in a federal context :)
> 
> I'd like to know what kinds of policies and guidelines other groups have
> developed along these lines?
> 
> Thanks muchly!
> Rosa Carson
> Mosaic Commons, west of Boston
> <http://www.mosaic-commons.org/>
> 
> And why should night and day be so radically divided?
> Is there anyone for whom loving and thinking
> are lived as different beginnings?
> Would I have to spend my days with the one and my nights with the other?
> -- Luce Irigaray
> 
> 
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