Posted on 09/04/2019 8:44:34 AM PDT by C19fan
Kroger, the United States’ largest supermarket chain, announced a corporate decision Tuesday about customers who choose to open carry in their stores – don’t do it unless you are a law enforcement officer. This announcement follows on the heels of Walmart’s decision to ask the same of its customers where the law allows guns to be openly carried.
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bummer. now they’ve forced robbers and mass murderers to illegally carry concealed ...
It’s gotten to the point where if you use your finger like a gun and point it at someone even as an acknowledgement you can be arrested for intimidation.
Yes, I saw that the other day. The article where the man was arrested for doing that.
I get away with a lot here in Alberta, but then again it’s Alberta. It’s normal to see people carrying rifles and such.
When will these companies have metal detectors for everyone entering the stores...like airports?
You’ve never met my wife. She open carries frequently.
If there is a “no open carry” sign, we let the manager know that we won’t be shopping there, and, will let our friends know.
In Texas hasn’t it been legal to open carry for only about 2 years?
> Why make yourself a target for every bad guy.
If there’s one person open carrying they are a target.
If there’s six people doing it they’re a deterrent.
Let the law suits against Walmart and Kroger begin.
Unfortunately or maybe not so unfortunately it’s not their call.
Those are public places, not private. Public smoking bans hashed this stuff out years ago. Nothing they can do, unless they declare themselves a private club. Oops.
Yes, but I never see people doing it. I prefer to carry in secret.
Nope. Not private property. See: Public Accomodation. Long settled law.
“Gun Shaped Cloud Spotted Over Elementary School, All Students Suspended For 5 Days.”
Yep. It’s a form of conditioning. That’s what the verbiage is about, the lockdowns 16 miles away, all carefully crafted from a psychological perspective. Only the racist police should have guns. It’s in the constitution.
Can walmart and kroegers be sued for failing to allow self protection inside their stores?
I live in Southwest Virginia, I see people open-carrying in Walmart every day. In Virginia, they will have to put warning signs on the doors to make it enforceable.
It will take one shooting in one of these places where a CC holder is shot and NOT able to protect him/herself then let the law suits begin!!! This IS IDIOTIC no one around to protect the shooter who of course will obey the rules / s!!! GIVE ME A DAMN BREAK!!!
To protect FROM the shooter OOPS!!!
I'm not sure that this is a wise policy for Walmart or Kroger but they are well within their rights to set it. Someone who wants a gun in these stores can just put it in a pocket or purse.
Unprotected and disarmed citizens have been slaughtered in schools, malls, bars, and government courthouses, among other locations, for decades now. Why would you think anyone is going to be held accountable or liable going forward?
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