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Guest column: We need groceries, not guns at Michigan Kroger stores
mlive.com ^ | 9-11-2014 | Linda Brundage

Posted on 09/13/2014 4:09:08 PM PDT by smokingfrog

Don’t skateboard at Kroger – it’s against the rules. Bringing food from outside the store is also strictly prohibited. And please don’t think about grocery shopping at one of the 50 or so Kroger grocery stores in Michigan without a shirt: you run the risk of being asked to leave.

But, if you’d like to peruse the produce aisles with a semi-automatic rifle slung across your shoulder, go right ahead. Kroger thinks that’s just fine in states where it is legal to openly carry guns, like Michigan. In fact, the grocery store chain has publicly stated that it doesn’t want to put employees in the position of having to “confront” a customer openly carrying a firearm. Instead, shoppers are left to determine whether the person in aisle five with an assault rifle is a “good guy” with a gun or a “bad guy” with a gun.

How would someone possibly know the difference?

In Michigan, as in many other states, people can easily buy rifles, even high-powered military-grade assault weapons, without a criminal background check. An estimated 6.6 million gun transfers occurred in 2012 without the buyers undergoing a criminal background check — despite polling that shows 92 percent of all Americans and 74 percent of NRA members support background checks on all gun sales. So, mothers pushing grocery carts with their children inside have no idea of whether the gun-toting grocery shopper is making a political statement, has a criminal record or is about to commit a crime.

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KEYWORDS: banglist; lansing; michigan; momsdemandaction
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To: Secret Agent Man
I prefer long guns anyway. They're in my comfort zone.


41 posted on 09/13/2014 5:30:55 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Lol! Click on the link and check out the author’s pic. It’s quite telling.


42 posted on 09/13/2014 5:39:55 PM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: smokingfrog
We need groceries, not guns at Michigan Kroger stores

I've got great news for this bimbo: There are groceries at Kroger. She's in luck!

43 posted on 09/13/2014 5:42:02 PM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

They used to use vibrators as a cure for hysteria in women. Perhaps she needs some fresh batteries.


44 posted on 09/13/2014 5:46:13 PM PDT by EricT. (Everything not forbidden is compulsory.)
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To: BykrBayb
"Do you know a better way to test the watermelons?"


45 posted on 09/13/2014 5:46:27 PM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: cripplecreek

Nice tats.


46 posted on 09/13/2014 5:51:15 PM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: PLMerite

That’ll work!


47 posted on 09/13/2014 5:56:30 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Depends on what the meaning of "IS" is ~ Þ)
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To: smokingfrog

By inviting CCW (or open carry) in its stores, Kroger is beefing up its security for free. The more serious firearm carriers you have in and around your store, the safer everyone that patronizes the store becomes. The exception is from armed thugs and wannabes...they’re likely to develop severe lead poisoning.


48 posted on 09/13/2014 5:58:33 PM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: EricT.
"They used to use vibrators as a cure for hysteria in women. Perhaps she needs some fresh batteries."

Try to pace yourself, honey.


49 posted on 09/13/2014 5:58:38 PM PDT by SnuffaBolshevik
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To: Paladin2
"...even high-powered military-grade assault weapons...."

Zowie! And little old me thought his AR15 was just a sporting carbine. High powered AND military grade - how cool is that? I be a dangerous dude & didn't even know it. ROTFLOL

50 posted on 09/13/2014 6:03:24 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: smokingfrog

Linda Brundage = another clueless, left-wing, lying’, gun-grabbing moonbat female who needs to grow up and face reality.


51 posted on 09/13/2014 6:10:18 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Politicians and diapers must be changed often for the same reason)
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To: smokingfrog

“Until Kroger decides to get some gun sense and demonstrate corporate responsibility by prohibiting the open carry of firearms in all Kroger brand stores, I and a lot of other moms will be shopping elsewhere.”

ROTFLOL!

I’m sure ya’ll will be MUCH safer shopping at grocery stores where only the bad guys carry firearms.


52 posted on 09/13/2014 6:19:35 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: smokingfrog

Open carriers in Kroger stores aren’t as dangerous as some shopping cart drivers in Kroger parking lots.


53 posted on 09/13/2014 6:22:27 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: coloradan

There are knives and heavy metal pans on isle 6 that someone could use for evil purposes. Maybe she’d like to ban those from the store too. Or some smart ass kid might chew his pop tart in the shape of a pistol. Oh the humanity!


54 posted on 09/13/2014 6:25:22 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Linda has some vapors. Maybe hysteria.

Well if this was the Victorian Era she would visit her Doctor and go home a happy woman instead of bothering the rest of us.

55 posted on 09/13/2014 6:30:21 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Billthedrill

“According to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, ‘about 40 percent of gun sales nationwide are made without a background check to see if the purchaser is a criminal or otherwise prohibited from buying guns.’” That’s a startling, attention-getting statement, but it isn’t true.

Let’s take a look at the truth. The genesis of that statement was a 1994 telephone survey conducted by the Police Foundation and funded by the Justice Department. The survey asked “only” 251 participants who had acquired guns in the previous two years if they had acquired their firearm from a licensed dealer. The response indicated that 35.7 percent did not; however, many transactions in that category were probably within-family transfers and/or gifts. But more importantly, the Brady background check law didn’t go into effect until March 1, 1994; hence, most or all of those firearms were purchased or acquired before there was a background check requirement. Keep in mind, that whatever value this report has, it is 20 years old and certainly doesn’t reflect the situation in 2014 America.

Using the above-report as a basis, Professors Cook and Ludwig of Duke University created two other reports in 1997 for the National Institute of Justice, concluding that “approximately 60 percent of gun acquisitions involved [federally licensed firearms dealers]...;”. The Brady claim is based on those reports, and they rounded up the 35.7 to 40 percent. That 40 percent number has gone viral and has become gospel to the whole anti-gun crowd, including Mr. Moore.


56 posted on 09/13/2014 6:35:40 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: IronJack

Love that post!!!


57 posted on 09/13/2014 7:11:42 PM PDT by gibsosa
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To: The Antiyuppie

You are a Michigander?


58 posted on 09/13/2014 7:34:25 PM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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To: catnipman
I’m sure ya’ll will be MUCH safer shopping at grocery stores where only the bad guys carry firearms.

Exactly. I mean what part of this is so difficult for them?

59 posted on 09/13/2014 7:37:05 PM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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To: smokingfrog

Ms Brundage...if I want to go and shop at Kroger’s with a concealed handgun...it is my right to defend myself and my family (and other shoppers) I have the right.


60 posted on 09/13/2014 7:48:44 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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