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In June, Texas Gov. Greg Abbot signed legislation permitting people with proper licenses to carry handguns in plain view. Though this so-called "open carry" law won't take effect until January, one Texas restaurant chain has already prohibited visible firearms from its properties, and experts say other local eateries will follow.
While only 5 states and Washington, D.C., now ban open carry in public places, businesses can issue their own no-gun policies. In fact, a HuffPost/YouGov poll in 2014 found that 55 percent of Americans prefer that shops and restaurants forbid guns.
In recent years, several major restaurants and retailers across the country have asked customers to refrain from openly carrying firearms -- some have even banned concealed guns altogether from their locations. Here are a few of the businesses that have taken a stand against open carry laws:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/16/open-carry-guns-restaurants-companies_n_7802468.html
Warpy
(111,412 posts)or any other area while I am there, I will leave. That means no sale.
Mass murderers don't wear convenient labels, nor do self-styled Good Guys With Gunz. It is impossible to tell the difference.
I will always err on the side of caution. Allow gun fetishists into your store, you lose at least one and quite probably more sales.
dhill926
(16,378 posts)BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)Nooo thank you.
prairierose
(2,145 posts)Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)If a store allows customers to wander around armed, I will leave, and probably not ever come back.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)How ironic.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)CreekDog
(46,192 posts)not unless your side can dominate the conversation, which out here, in GD, they cannot.
so you try to shut it down or whine when you cant.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)...and special dispensation for a forum. Take your arguments where ever you want, and you will be countered throroughly and effectively. Everytime.
Paladin
(28,281 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)accorded to controller/banners.
You know, back in the Old Daze, DU actually had a Forum for RKBA/GUN Control. But some folks worked to get that changed for whatever reason. Now, we have a group for open debate, and one for ironically-termed "activism.". The latter " whines" with the wind of activists past?
spanone
(135,919 posts)951-Riverside
(7,234 posts)It doesn't matter if you ban bullets, do stronger background checks, ban people from carrying weapons into a place, etc, etc. Nothing will stop a gunman from walking into a place and gunning down a bunch of people. As long as we continue to make it legal to manufacture, own and sell such destructive devices of death, these mass shootings will continue to happen.
If we are to ever make any real changes we need to have a constitutional convention to scrap the 2nd amendment and make all private firearm ownership a felony. If you want to go hunting go to the store and buy your food like a normal person or use an air rifle like in the UK. Anything less is just feel good bullshit.
The UK has the most ruthless radicals living there but you will never hear about a mass shooting there.
Why?
Because they banned guns.
Logical
(22,457 posts)951-Riverside
(7,234 posts)irisblue
(33,044 posts)1. Whataburger
2. Chipotle
3. Panera Bread
4. Sonic
5. Chili's
6. Starbucks
and Target
HFRN
(1,469 posts)i don't think this is controversial among rational people, even those mildly conservative
samsingh
(17,602 posts)Hangingon
(3,071 posts)If they really do not want guns in the store, the need the official 30.06 sign. What's burger here did not have that sign posted as of a half hour ago. Sonic is usually a drive in. How does that work?
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Too bad they ignore that part in the Second Amendment.
Hangingon
(3,071 posts)This is a matter of Texas state law. My pocket edition of The Constitution of the United States in Amendment II has no part on "nit picky" regulations. Case law does allow states to set regulations that do not deprive citizens of their constitutional rights.
Jane Austin
(9,199 posts)We are definitely putting up a No Guns sign.
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Omaha Steve
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