> In Indiana, property rules are not laws and have no legal weight unless the property owner asks a person to leave or obey and the person refuses. <
That’s pretty much how it should be. I strongly believe in property rights. But a person shouldn’t have to guess what the property owner wants and doesn’t want. So if I’m carrying and the owner doesn’t like it, no problem. Tell me, and I’ll leave.
But here’s the thing. If the owner prominently posts “no firearms permitted” at every entrance, then the responsibility shifts. I’ve already been informed. If I enter anyway, then I’m the jerk and I should be subject to criminal penalties.
By the way, the following has happened to me more than once. I’m about to enter a store, and on the front door there is this big sign, “No firearms permitted.” I respect that. So I shop elsewhere.
Side note to the FBI snoops: I no longer have this problem, as all my firearms were lost in a boating accident last year.
Yes, but if you put a sign up then you best be prepared to enforce your rur rules. that means you make sure nobody enters that mall with a weapon. You have to pay for security. People disobey laws all the time. Criminals don’t care about laws and they don’t care about rules either.
There was nothing in that mall to stop that shooter from walking in there with a backpack full of weapons. He didn’t care one bit about some stupid sign posted because he knew that nobody was there to stop him from coming into that mall. Keep in mind, many people probably don’t even pay attention to signs posted.
I have never understood why leftists think that laws will stop criminals. “Oh, lets hurry and make a law” LOL They do not stop criminals because we have a shitload of laws and an even bigger shitload of crimes.
If it wasn’t for this one young man putting himself into the line of that criminal’s fire, many more people would have been dead.
If the Simon Malls want a damn gun free zone, then they need to open their pockets and enforce their rules. Otherwise a sign is a merely a joke.