Posted on 10/08/2014 8:39:31 AM PDT by rktman
Moms Demand Action has adopted the tactic of attempting to isolate and bully individual companies into accepting their prohibitionist gun control philosophy. Their goal is to accomplish through bullying what they cannot establish through legislation: reducing the number of places that law-abiding citizens can exercise their basic human right to self-defense.
The republic’s largest supermarket chain is the latest target of Michael Bloomberg’s fake grassroots gun prohibitionist organization, and the chain has stood tall in defense of the common sense position that private companies best serve their customers by abiding by local, state and federal laws, not writing their own.
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A phony non-issue. I have been going into grocery stores on a regular basis for over four decades now, and I have never, ever seen anyone open carry. It just does not happen much.
Good to hear. I was trying to decide where to go after work today for groceries: CostCo, Sprouts, Vons or Ralphs (division of Kroger).
Off to Ralphs it is!!
Spread the word and tell everyone you know.
“Moms Demand Action” Sounds like something that would appear in Penthouse Forum — Under something like “Cougar Attack.”
Dear Penthouse Forum, I’m 17 and play basketball for my local high school. The other day I was bagging groceries at my local Kroger store that I work at after school when this not unattractive mother of one of my classmates asked me to double bag her...
Truth is whatever serves the Revolution.
Bloomberg’s Oligarch gun prohibitionist organization.
Fixed it
What they were hoping for is the headline, “Kroger disses open carry”. It didn’t matter no one was doing it. IMO, open carry does make people nervous. They don’t know if you are planning a jihad or your wife just left you, or you just got fired. Concealed carry does none of this. If you are toting a rifle around a store on your shoulder with a 30 rd mag, and you so much as twitch, someone with a concealed carry might react. I’m 63 and have lived in Texas all my life. NO ONE, ever carried anything openly except to the gun store to get it worked on in all those years. To carry an AK into Kroger just makes no sense unless you have a bad motive. I know they all say they want to make a point, but the point IS hurting the rest of us. Even charter members of the NRA would be nervous seeing a 22 year old Iranian walking through Kroger with an AR. Remember, EVERYONE uses the same rules. How about Mike Brown bringing a .308 into 7-11 in Ferguson? What would you think? Not everyone is a trained gun owner fighting for gun rights. If I saw a young male, any flavor, enter an establishment with open carry I and my family were in, I would immediately unsnap and start moving for the door. That’s just a natural reaction. I don’t know you and you don’t know me, and from what I see today, most have no idea about gun safety. My dad taught me at 8 yrs old with threats of beatings and never touching a gun again if I didn’t follow the gun rules. Today, you take an 8 hour course while nodding off to sleep and you get a gubmint license.
I say good for Kroger’s.
Good. I started going back to Kroger’s recently. I had trouble in the past there.
About a year ago, I went back and noticed a huge change in the store. They had not modernized it, but the meat was much fresher than it was and the store clerks are much friendlier. They had to have a change in management. I enjoy shopping there now. And the fact that they are not going to be bullied is another plus for continuing to support the local Kroger. Surprising what good management can do for a store.
Funny thing is, a year ago in my local Kroger I noticed a guy open carrying next to me in the produce department. Actually didn’t think anything of it.
Look at Moms Delusional Aspirations web site and you will discover their funding. Look at their web site registration and you will see an umbrella organization with all manner of tear-jerker subgroups often with ‘Mayors’ or city names intertwined.
Frankly, if you’re a mother supporting this insanity you are unfit to serve as a parent.
Smiths Grocery in Reno is the Kroger affiliated store.
P.S. Costco head cheese is a HUGE lib and lyin’king supporter and they do NOT want firearms in their stores.
That’s why I usually refer to them as “moms lookin’ for a little action”.
People in Arizona open carry in convenience stores and nobody blinks.
Me? If I am forced to reveal the fact I am carrying, I want it to come as a complete surprise.
“Funny thing is, a year ago in my local Kroger I noticed a guy open carrying next to me in the produce department. Actually didn’t think anything of it.”
Especially if you are CC. :-)
“Gotta go to my local Kroger affiliated store again today I guess. “
Kroger’s a real smart outfit. They bought the local chains, King Soopers and City Market in Colorado a few years ago and then promptly left them alone to keep making tons of money for Kroger.
Did the same thing in Charlotte recently with the Harris Teeter chain. Friends there were panicking about losing one of their favorite chains and i told them not to worry. Nothing would change for the worse.
Kroger must have gotten their unions under control, or perhaps gotten rid of them.
Kroger bailed from my market thirty years ago after having all kinds of problems with the unions. Before that the stores were just as you described. Dirty with surly employees.
My wife open carries everywhere she goes.
If there is a “No Guns” sign on the door, we go somewhere else after letting the manager know why.
They are just serving folks up for crime with signs like that.
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