I was boggled until I read about the sign.
I am now unboggled. When the owner explicitly refuses to allow customers in his establishment to protect themselves, then he is shouldering the responsibility in their stead, and he failed to protect them.
When the owner explicitly refuses to allow customers in his establishment to protect themselves, then he is shouldering the responsibility in their stead, and he failed to protect them.
And if he wasn’t permitted to allow guns because of federal, state, or local laws? Then they’re still screwed. They’re in a no-win situation. So we need big, surly, rent-a-cops with metal detectors and rubber gloves in every theater ready to feel up the crotch of every customer and prowling the aisles? How about supermarkets, public parks, mega-churches?