>I am near radical 2nd Amendment advocate, even for felons who have done their time, but also a private property fiend. If you are on someone’s property, they are the king, and obey or leave, just as you would wish on your property.
The question is, I think, to what degree does a private property THAT IS OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC remain private.
The two are contradictory, in nature, either it *IS* open to the general public, and therefore public in nature [and should be governed by the same public-laws] OR it is not [and the property truly is private].
It’s still private, privately owned and insured. I’d have no problem with an establishment, open to the public, forbidding guns. Fine with me, I’ll take my business elsewhere, or not. Both of us have options.
You can swear in a low down dive bar just fine, but not in a high class places.
If a business owner doesn’t want some pants around the knees, base ball cap on sideways customer, fine. Or makes you wear a suit and a tie, fine.
I don’t think the open to the public or not argument is strong for speech, dress codes, or behavior all of which would go unmolested in publicly owned spaces. Same with guns, unmolested in the public sphere, at the owners discretion in the private sphere.