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JTHunter wrote:
If there is another choice, tell BOTH the store manager and corporate HQ that you no longer feel safe in their stores and you , your family, your friends, etc. will be taking their business where you are allowed to OC in their facilities. Add that you will glad to return to their stores when ever they decide to stop denying your Constitutional rights and circumventing local law.
It's been discussed repeatedly, but some folks never seem to catch on. First, a private business is functionally incapable of violating your constitutional right to keep and bear arms - only a government agency/entity can do that. Second, at my last check of NC and Raleigh, NC law there was nothing stating that a private property owner must allow firearms onto their private property. actually, I found indication that private property owners may in fact post their property as GFZs and have the local constabulary enforce said posting.
Yes, inform them that you disagree with the policy that deprives you of the effecient and effective means of self defense and that for that reason you will no longer patronize their stores. Yes, inform them that if they later realize that allowing responsible, law-abiding gun owners to patronize their store while armed does not cause any loss of income or increase their actual liability expenses, that you will return to their store for your shopping needs.
But please, for the sake of my blood pressure if nothing else, keep your civics straight.
<stepping down and putting soap box away>
stay safe,
skidmark
