Discussion for article #224611
If you go to the store with an AK strapped across your body and they ask you to please leave the store because of it, that’s a gun BAN.
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I love the term “gun rights activists”. Guns are objects, they have no rights. If I call myself a “car rights activist” can I drive my car inside a Target store? After all, parking and walking into the store is so inconvenient.
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Open Carry Texas warned that “businesses that have asked guests not to bring legally possessed, self defense firearms into their establishments have seen their employees and customers victimized by criminals preying on the openly defenseless.”
Yeah, customers need protection like that self-appointed Barney Fife provided by managing to get himself killed by confronting those Vegas cop killers in Wal-Mart.
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I don’t get it. Where are the statistics about Target customers being robbed IN THE STORE? Do these clowns not realize that Target, Walmart, and just about ever other big box store has TONS of cameras? Any fool that tries to rob someone in Target or Walmart will be on the evening news that day, complete with pictures. And most likely in jail within a week.
So why do they feel the need to “defend” themselves with AR-15’s or AK-47 knockoffs? The robber will stab them, grab the gun and split, selling the gun on the street within hours of the robbery.
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So why do they feel the need to “defend” themselves with AR-15’s or AK-47 knockoffs? The robber will stab them, grab the gun and split, selling the gun on the street within hours of the robbery.
Because they (the gun nuts) live in their own “Dirty Harry” fantasy world where they can single-handedly save the day by blowing away “bad guys” thus saving all the store customers and prepare their “I’m just a regular guy” speech for the 5 o’clock news.
None of which has any basis in the reality of bringing a gun in to a public space where the scenario you describe is more the case.
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They’re just preparing for the next Black Friday sale.
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…and is 100% contradicted by the guy in Wal-Mart mentioned above.
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That respectful request stuff is just to mollify until Target’s extra large tummy ban is enacted…
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Unfortunately, they’re right. Target doesn’t have the authority to ban guns. These companies are at the mercy of State laws passed by craven politicians.
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Of course they do. They are a private business and can set their own policies. For example, free speech means you can stand on a street corner and declaim that Target is pure evil. If you walk into their stores and declaim that in the underwear aisle, they will escort you out.
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Yeah right. Now I’m supposed to be worried that I’ll be robbed of my pillow covers and candles outside of Target–instead of being
worried in the store— of being shot by an open carry idiot. These people are dumb.
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Armed anti-government insurgents…what makes them any different from ISIS? Oh yeah, their magic man has a different name.
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I agree with your point, but in that phrasing, the word gun is an adjective, describing the types of rights they are activists for, not a possessive noun indicating to whom the rights belong.
That, of course, does not change you point about driving into the store. That analogy is still good.
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Well, better get a gun to protect yourself from the open carry idiots.
See? The circle of derp continues forever!
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attention armed Target shoppers: please leave your weapons in your Conestoga wagons.
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“Yeah, well…we don’t even WANT to be part of your stupid old club anyway, so there! We’ll just take our steel penis-extensions and go play someplace else!!! Whaaaaaa!!!1111”
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Target can absolutely ban guns from their stores. You can ban guns from your property too. If someone enters the store with a gun, Target can call the cops and have them arrested for trespassing. This falls under the whole “right to refuse service” bit you see at every store everywhere.
They chose not to go full ban because it would be inappropriate for Target to ask their slightly above minimum wage employees to confront someone with a gun.
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I’m pretty confident that they’ll be welcome in Wal-Mart up until the Waltons sell out to some Chinese company.
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ISIS may use a different name, but it is the same Abrahamic god revered by Jews and Christians.
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