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To: Durus
"Business owners in my state do not have the legal authority to forbid customers from carrying concealed firearms."

Just as you don't have the legal authority to forbid people from worshipping Satan...But a property owner can assert whether or not they're going to accept that practice on their property, and if they ask you to leave and you don't, you're trespassing. You're being pedantic, but in spite of your parsing, it still amounts to a de facto authority of a property owner to assert the right to allow or disallow armed persons on their property.

"No we haven't. The rights privileges and immunities guaranteed by the constitution to the individual can't be nullified simply because one is on private property."

You conveniently overlook the fact that the property owner's rights are among the rights, privileges and immunities guaranteed by the Constitution. Just as you're under no obligation to allow persons to exercise their protected rights on your front lawn, no property owner is obligated to allow you to exercise your rights on their property.

53 posted on 07/27/2014 1:41:42 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Joe 6-pack
But a property owner can assert whether or not they're going to accept that practice on their property

You can't forbid anyone on your property from practicing their religion but you can ask them to leave. It's an important distinction.

You're being pedantic, but in spite of your parsing, it still amounts to a de facto authority of a property owner to assert the right to allow or disallow armed persons on their property.

If I'm being pedantic then you are being obtuse. Private property rights do not supersede other rights. You can ask someone to leave your property for any reason you like, but you can't remove their rights.

You conveniently overlook the fact that the property owner's rights are among the rights, privileges and immunities guaranteed by the Constitution.

No...I don't.

no property owner is obligated to allow you to exercise your rights on their property.

Their only legal remedy is to ask the person to leave their property. They can not restrain someone from exercising their rights.

55 posted on 07/27/2014 11:32:11 AM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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