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I'm going to have to agree everything that J-A-C has stated. When you're trying to make a POSITIVE impact on the generalpublic's views, I'll submit that TIMING IS EVERYTHING. People have a right to protest (w/in reasonable limits), whatever they like, or dislike,in this country. One can protest abortion, the war in Iraq,or even the fact Walmart sells white socks. Open carrying is, in one form or another, a protest against people's misconstrued mindsets that a gun=criminal. But there is a time and place for everything. Example: Protesting the war in Iraq at the cemetary gates where a fallen soldier is being laid to rest. NOT the correct timing. Even other "anti-war" people would agree that it does NOT help the "cause," just shows that those particular protesters have no sense of tact. Showing up w/guns (legal as it may be) just after a shooting, is NOT the correct timing.
As has also been mentioned, the owner's property rights on their PRIVATE PROPERTY, exceeds your 2nd Amendment rights on their property. We may not like that, but how can we reasonably expect people to respect the rights we choose to promote, when we totally and completely ignore the rights that they choose to exersize, and rules that they choose to set??? We can't. If we want to try and change policy of a private company, on their private property, we can't expect to get very far by trampling their right to set the rules on that property while we try to "teach" them something. It's not as eloquent as I'd like, but you get my point?
