Smoking Barrels

When you reserve a hotel room these days, you sometimes need to check the "non-smoking room" box to be sure that when you check in you won't be burdened by the last ten guests' habit of smoking cigarettes in every corner. There are many hotels that even proudly proclaim that they are smoke-free. This assures the guests that they will not only be free of that ashtray smell as they attempt to settle in to their home away from home, but they won't have to worry about secondhand smoke drifting through the ventilation system to choke them in their sleep. It's the innkeeper's way of looking out for us. Such a deal.
What about when you head back to your home that isn't away from home, but is actually your home? There are a great many apartment buildings, especially in large metropolitan areas that have gone smoke-free. If you were looking for an apartment in Colorado, for example, that was smoke-free, you could avail yourself of the services of Al Gore's Internet. There you could find a wide variety of listings to help you find a place to live and breathe free. The friendly folks who make up the "Group to Alleviate Smoking Pollution," or GASP, don't think that you should put your health in danger just because of someone else's nasty habit.
But what if you've got that nasty habit? There are plenty of nice pleasant tenants who might have to pack up their belongings and leave, even if they don't believe that "myth" of secondhand smoke. You want to trust the Environmental Protection Agency? That's the government, and we all know that they are slowly eroding our personal rights. If I want to turn my lungs into sticky black bags of tar, that's my right. Then again, it's not like they're telling me I can't own guns and live there.
Unless you happen to be living in the Oakwood Apartments in Castle Rock. The management of this particular complex issued the following in their "community policies:" Firearms and Weapons are Prohibited - Resident agrees not to display, use or possess or allow any member of the resident's household, or a guest or other person under the resident's control to display, use, possess any firearms (operable or inoperable) or any other weapons, including but not limited to, night sticks, nun chucks, brass knuckles, anywhere on the property. Would you guess that the ex-Marine who lives there doesn't want to give up his guns? He wouldn't feel safe without them. Now he's faced with a choice: Move out, or hand over the shootin' irons.
But back to the hotel room for just a moment: When I check in to that swanky resort, why isn't anyone asking me if I want Second Amendment or No Second Amendment? Anti-gun hoteliers like Marriott are bold enough to put their signs up in the lobby: All Weapons Prohibited On These Premises. How is a guest supposed to deal with that guy next door who sneaks a smoke on his balcony?