The police officer lecturing the guy is making a dumb anti-Second Amendment argument from Leftist while open carrying himself is not helping at all.
The idea that Wal Mart has a list that is distributed to every store in America is ludicrous.
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“Do not blame the police as they are doing there job by request of Wally World.”
But don’t you worry, when the gov’t demands that all guns be rounded up, the police will stand up and not follow the orders given.....
I’m pro gun and all, but going out in public open carrying is kinda stupid. And here in Kentucky we just changed the law. You can now conceal carry without a permit.
In our 21st century U.S. culture, people simply don’t walk around open carrying guns. Sure, you can do it, but you look like a fool and, truth be told, probably are one. Just because you CAN do a thing, doesn’t mean you SHOULD do it.
And once you leave the street and walk into a private business, you are subject to their rules. That is a first amendment thing. If they say no shoes, no shirt, no service, Put on shoes and a shirt. If they say no guns, either leave it in the car or conceal carry.
It’s really simple.
I carry Concealed at the local Walmart and everywhere else I go.
Open Carry takes away the element of surprise. I’ve never understood the appeal, though I have a Smoke em’ if you got em’ attitude about it.
An armed society is a polite society.
Cop sez...”Do you realize what YOU’VE done here?”
“Uh, exercised my Second Amendment rights?”
Other articles say no ban for open carry, They were just asking that you don’t. They leave you alone if you fo.
Walmart spokesperson Lorenzo Lopez told the Times that company employees are instructed not to obstruct peaceful shoppers from openly carrying guns. But he said stores should call law enforcement if an employee or customer feel unsafe.
... unless you are gay, a minority, a woman, a Muslim, a liberal activist or any other politically protected class. That would be discrimination. No business can legally decide who they can and cannot do business with until the politically correct police state determines what moral influence has been considered in such a private decision.
This will hurt walmart, this, plus their moves concerning ammo.
But as for us, for goodness’ sake; if you open-carry and want or need to go to walmart, start concealing! It’s not a point of pride; it’s a point of practicality. You’re just as well defended, and you don’t freak out the snowflakes.
It’s about what the traffic will bear. Play it smart.
This virtue signaling by Walmart has been months in the making, and only waited until a tragedy to roll it out.
My thoughts are thus; I will never shop at any Walmart again until this idiotic policy is recinded.
IMHO every business has the right to ban guns from their premises and I have the right to shop somewhere else.
However, any business that prohibits guns should be held strictly for any victims of gun violence on their premises because if they say no guns are allowed they are lying. Only people who care about complying with the law are disarmed.
Maybe this ban suggestion of theirs is where you part company, and you just quit shopping there. Then you let your neighbors, associates, relatives, etc....know the position you took, and in twelve months...Wal-Mart will have a meeting to grasp how they lost 25-percent of their normal profits. You survived before Wal-Mart ever arrived in your neighborhood....you can survive now and help other stores profit over their mistake.
To declare a business to be gun free is the same as to paint a giant bullseye on the front door.
Some people get nervous around guns. I remember my wife taking her road test for a driver’s license when we returned back to the US from England. She was so nervous she failed because the police officer carried a gun. They gave her a second chance with an officer without a gun and she passed.
I don’t think I would ever open carry if it became legal here in NJ (HaHa) because I think it looks stupid; I would always conceal so as not to upset anyone.
I prefer concealed carry for both "social" and tactical reasons. So, I keep a jacket or straight-cut sport shirt hanging in the back of my vehicle, and slip it on when I exit.
We shop in a small town where WalMart already dominates, and, I already try to give my business to local merchants as much as possible. But, if I must enter WalMart for something I can't get without a long drive to a city, on goes the cover. (No change in practice...)
Now, I'm actively seeking out additional alternatives to Wal-Mart.
And, I've used this W-M stupidity as impetus to set up my reloading bench, again...
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WalMart has now lost the majority of my business. Should they become so stupid as to put up "30.06" signs:
I'll drive an extra 20 miles, rather than enter any WalMart Gun-free Zone"!
TXnMA
Maybe Walmart doesn’t want to deal with the loons who freak out & start shrieking “EEEEK, he’s got a GUN!!” every time they see a holstered pistol.
They’d have a panicky stampede a dozen times every day in every store.
Plus, there are the even loonier loons who will actually try to GRAB your gun while hollering “CITIZEN’S ARREST!”
Walmart is only banning OPEN carry.
For everybody’s sake, just carry concealed.
He should have told the cops after they said he was not breaking the law that he would continue his shopping. He also should have NEVER signed that form, that was stupid and dumb.