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In reply to the discussion: I would avoid a store where people are openly carrying guns [View all]B Calm
(28,762 posts)133. I would be more likely to go to stores who post no guns on premises!
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I think I would do the same. I would be sure to tell the store manager why I was leaving.
Arkansas Granny
Sep 2013
#2
Me too! I would take my basket with what I had already selected to the customer service counter and
Fla Dem
Sep 2013
#147
No wonder you want to carry guns everywhere --you clearly won't get by on your wits alone
CreekDog
Sep 2013
#126
Oh, you're just being silly. I'll take my deficient syntax over your sports writing.
Eleanors38
Sep 2013
#128
So by your logic, to call ourselves Democrats, we should probably develop unanimous
Squinch
Sep 2013
#102
I am not aware of the poll, but I'll let everyone know that we're meeting at your house.
Squinch
Sep 2013
#149
The strange thing to me is: IF a person is deranged and truly wants to "Go Postal", the FIRST...
BlueJazz
Sep 2013
#94
So I should just think that a random guy with a gun in a grocery store is a U.S. Marshall?
djean111
Sep 2013
#48
you said the bank customer screwed up by not knowing a US Marshall when he saw one
CreekDog
Sep 2013
#64
R#5 & K for, yip, it's going to have to be the corporate owners to shut down the gun loons
UTUSN
Sep 2013
#10
how do you know that people who don't want to see open carrying of guns are in favor of gun control?
CreekDog
Sep 2013
#67
Both times I have had this happen to me I made sure I left, called and then spoke with the
msanthrope
Sep 2013
#15
Unless those openly carried guns are drawn and pointed they are a target for people who want but ...
JEFF9K
Sep 2013
#19
I would. They want to intimidate people, not spend prison in life for first degree murder.
Throd
Sep 2013
#51
George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin under the cover of darkness with no witnesses.
Throd
Sep 2013
#74
So now imagine a bunch of guys going into Starbucks and showing off their guns because they
Squinch
Sep 2013
#34
Actually, you would know they were both dead had I copied the correct link to the michigan case
etherealtruth
Sep 2013
#55
The police in your town "constantly train"? Wow. Mine go to the range every 3 years
Recursion
Sep 2013
#99
It's a reference to Wayne La Pierre's statement after the Sandy Hook Elemen. School massacre
Hekate
Sep 2013
#130
I would most definitely leave...especially if I had one of my grandchildren with me....
cynatnite
Sep 2013
#24
I thought about that, too, but openly carrying gets me thinking of mass shootings...
cynatnite
Sep 2013
#65
Same here. But I've lived in 2 states where OC is not allowed -- Texas & Florida.
Eleanors38
Sep 2013
#50
so everyone who open carries isn't a dangerous person, but a Minnesota CCW holder
CreekDog
Sep 2013
#141
just keep changing the subject, keep acting like you forgot the post you made minutes ago
CreekDog
Sep 2013
#144
How would our guy handle "Oh, look, he DOES have a dick, I didn't see it at first, but it's right
toby jo
Sep 2013
#80
which is as seriously as anyone here should take any of your posts in this thread
CreekDog
Sep 2013
#139
shootings in this country are as rare as being struck by lightning while being eaten by a bear?
CreekDog
Sep 2013
#89
*Random mass shootings*, the kind where a person I don't know will sneak up and shoot me
Recursion
Sep 2013
#92
No, actually, very few people are killed by strangers every year, which was my point
Recursion
Sep 2013
#98
If someone walks into my local CVS drugstore holding a shotgun, I would do more than just "avoid".
AlinPA
Sep 2013
#87
The open carry crowd doesn't understand that they're slowly destroying what we love
ecstatic
Sep 2013
#110
Do you really feel pushed to "arm to the teeth" and "wear bullet proof vests?"
Eleanors38
Sep 2013
#124
How many times in your life have you been in a store and seen a person carrying a firearm openly?
NYC_SKP
Sep 2013
#111
I supposed it's possible that I've seen them and just not cared or been alarmed.
NYC_SKP
Sep 2013
#115
I would get the hell out of that store as discretely and quickly as possible if I saw someone had a
avaistheone1
Sep 2013
#125