Well, I guess I won’t bring my cash, either..
Scaring scaredy cats is not going to change their minds. IMHO.
Who are these morons who are carrying long guns in public? That’s an in-yer-face sure enough reason to scare people. I have a CPL. I am familiar with our gun laws, and have had experience with local law enforcement. We are an open carry state, so it’s legal-but it’s still stupid! If I see a long gun in public, my first thought is “bad guy”. When I see a holstered gun, no biggy. When the folks at our grocery store see me, they automatically look at my face, then down to the side-they always want to see if I remembered to pull my shirt down over my holster!
Sorry, but the long-gun pro open carry idiots are ruining it. They are not educating the public, they are scaring the public. And they for darn sure are scaring me. First, because they’re Operating Dumb While Armed, and second, are they a good guy or a bad guy? Escape, evade.
There is Walmart.
I think target is a French store and doesn’t understand American values!
The Wal*Borg near me does the passive-aggressive thing. They have a sparse collection of ammo in locked cases. Alas, there is never a salesperson with a license there to unlock the cases. Too bad, so sad. They long ago stopped selling firearms.
Any place that doesn't want my gun doesn't want my business.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
And when there’s a rash of armed robberies at Targets all over the place, what then?
Well at the rate Target is closing stores I don’t think they are going to be around much longer anyway.
I have mixed feelings about this (whether they should even be able to say this or not). OTOH, it's their property, so they should be able to do business on their own terms. So I can agree that they have the right to ban at least open carry if they want to do that. But to say they can ban CCW as well is to say they can ban things that have no impact on them, things they can't even detect are occurring. I generally don't think people are entitled to have opinions about things that don't affect them.
Another aspect of this is non-discrimination. Now I don't agree with anti-discrimination laws in public accommodations (though I do feel that most forms of discrimination are wrong and bad business besides), but the reality is that that is what the law is today. If you can't choose not to deal with people because of their race, or sexual preference, or any number of other characteristics, how can you be allowed to discriminate against people on the basis of which enumerated Constitutional rights they exercise?
I won’t offend them with any of my money fron now on.
I don't either. I quit shopping there years ago when they banned the Salvation Army's Santa Claus and his red tea kettle from in front of their stores leading up to Christmas. They of course were forced to reverse that action the next year after they suffered a severe consumer and publicity backlash but that stunt told me all I wanted to know about their corporate character. Haven't been back since.
Well since it is concealed, they won’t know. If I had to pull it out to protect myself in an event, well they would know then, but little it would do them to tell me not to bring it in cause I did, protected myself and was able to walk out alive. End of discussion.