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I wonder if there is some way to communicate with the mall owner/administration industry to give it/them some kind of educational presentation about law abiding citizens who carry weapons. You know, why they're beneficial, responsible, needed,cool,etc.
Maybe make some kind of well-prepared gun carrier/owner community outreach effort. I would guess there's some kind of retail/mall management industry group that a formal presentation could be made to. Probably more than one.
These nickel-dime boycott wavings can't be too too effective in my estimation. They probably don't even come up on the mall owning/ mall management industry's radar screens at any strategic level.
Thethreat of a significantly effective gun carriers' boycott is just about nil as far as I can tell.
The malls have what people want. And other big retail operations have what we want. Why on earth would I boycott Wal-Mart, for example? I just bought 600 rounds of ammo there last week. I NEED Wal-Mart.
I avoid malls as much as possible, but I do need to go once in a while. I won't boycott any mall for its excessively cautious policies on carried guns. Not unless it's an effective boycott. Or even possibly effective.
Let's face it. The two biggest drivers for the standard mall management policies on carried guns are management conservatism, risk aversionand perceived legal liability. Those are the three variables that need to change if we expect to get the type of relief we desire.
And in the case of perceived legal liability, the gun prohibiters in mall administration have a pretty good rationale and basis for doing what they do. Lawyers would make their world miserable if some legally-carrying goof with a gun decided to be really stupid/bad sometime and the mall specifically allowed the goof to come onto its property with its approval.
Until those three cited variables change, and there are possibly others, the mall policies ain't gonna be any different.
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