[diemkae]

IF any insurance company gives "big discounts" for clients that institute "defenseless victim zones", it will stop the first time they have to deal with a suit by law-abiding victims who might have been able to protect themselves had they not been made defenseless by a "no guns" policy.

Such policies only disarm the law-abiding... surely no rational person believes that a predator who has already decided to commit capital murder would be deterred by the additional misdemeanor/trespass charge for ignoring a "no guns" sign!

[AnalogReigns]

I never said it was fully rational...lots of business decisions are not. However if someone was ever shot, accidently or otherwise on Costco property, their no gun policy and signs up would give them plausible lack of liability--by their lawyers saying, "well, that gun was against our rules...so we cannot be held responsible..."

Also the principle still stands...higher even than your and my right to carry a gun (which I fully believe in), that a private business can make private rules for their private property.

Anything other then that is not freedom.