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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Because Kroger refuses to bow before them, they are going to natter at Kroger at every opportunity.
In the final analysis, Kroger did the math and they know that this anti-gun group is just a vanity project for Bloomberg. They have no real juice. So there is no downside to Kroger just blowing them off.
That gal with the Kalashnikov has her right to open carry, but those leg tats absolutely creep me out.
What is it about young women & tatoos nowadays?
Yes, I’m old.
I have never met an NRA member who supported background checks and I’ve been a member since 1983. Why should a law abiding citizen go thorough a check that a criminal does not have to. It’ only ads to a false sense of security, put the burden on the seller/buyer and allows the government to get it’s hooks into your liberty deeper.
My view is that in the rare event where a person has a documented issue, their name should be on a no sale list. If your name is not on the list, you get to buy one freely. It’s not the ownership of the firearm that should be regulated, it’s the improper use. If I owned a sound suppressed, short barreled fully automatic weapon that had pistol grips, 100 magazine and a bayonet lug but use it responsibly, why should the government care?
Just came back from Krogers. Store was packed and didn’t see any people carrying evil black rifles. Talk about a big non-issue, guess some people need to get a life and not waste time writing op-eds and putting ads in the local papers.
I saw an ad about this topic in the Detroit Free Press last week.
Hey stranger, haven’t seen you around in a long time.
BTW, what was that bit about Putin? Someone doesn't get sarcasm?
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