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[BallardWA]

79. I left a grocery store on Sunday, with my empty bags under my arms,

but only after telling the management that there was a young man roaming the store with a gun on his hip and that I was going to take my business elsewhere. I had been with this guy in the parking lot and got to observe his behavior, and I did not like what I saw. He was young, brash and lippy. He most certainly felt a bigger man because of that gun. It sent a shudder down my spine. I had to return something and had someone call down management so that I could complain directly to them. They said that they were helpless to prevent it. I know that if a business can prove that allowing open carry in their establishment is causing a pecuniary loss, they can ban them. I intend to do this every damn time I see some idiot carrying. You got it right - we have our rights too.