“Who decides [what’s responsible carry]?”
YOU decide if YOU are responsible.
A bunch of you completely misunderstood my point.
YOU know if YOU are going into the store to shop vs use it as a political grandstand (regardless of how cleverly you rationalize it, you know if you’re doing it to force an issue on people who are there for reasons far removed from your issue).
As a proper customer buying goods/services? while sensibly exercising a right in a polite/unobtrusive manner? good.
As a political activist feigning “customer” to thrust the issue into public awareness via a private business? you’re no better than these dweebs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ita0efOQ7Xo
Remember this point very well: we had won Starbucks, they’d declared “we are committed to respecting local law, and if that means open carry is legal, we’re OK with you open carrying so long as you’re not a jerk about it” ... then a bunch of jerks (knowing full well what they were doing) decided to rub that win in customers’ faces with frequent & recurring “Starbucks Armed Appreciation Days” in a way that DID wantonly piss off customers & management, to the point that Starbucks had to reverse their gun-agnostic policy policy a la “you OC people are being willfully obnoxious & disruptive about it, get out”.
My point?
We won Kroger.
Now don’t piss ‘em off, lest we lose them like we did Starbucks.
A close-fit OC holster is fine as normal daily carry; shop away, so long as that’s the real reason you’re in Kroger. A tricked-out AR slung isn’t, it’s not your normal daily carry, if you have it in Kroger (special cases aside) you’re not there to shop.
Don’t be a jerk.
Don’t OC _at_ people.
You missed my point. See #63.
I’m all for OC, so long as you’re not a jerk about it.
And you know when you’re being a jerk about it, no matter how much you want to be, and how much you rationalize it.
Starbucks was OK with OC until people started being jerks about it.
Kroger is OK with OC; don’t be a jerk about it.
And yes, you know when you’re being a jerk.
How does that work if you replace the second amendment with the first amendment?
Don't SPEAK at _AT_ people? The whole purpose of the amendment is that you can speak _at_ people and make them uncomfortable.
You are trying to decide which is responsible speech that you approve of using your clever _at_ someone thing. It don't work like that.
A right is a right, even if you don't like the speech or the carry.
/johnny