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No Weapons Allowed In The Establishment

By Gregory Kielma

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What is your opinion on stores that have a no weapons allowed sign on the door?


What is your opinion on stores that have a no weapons allowed sign on the door?

Gregg Kielma

In my state, it doesn't carry the force of law. IF they discover I'm armed, they can ask me to leave, and I will. If I refuse to leave, they can call the police and I would be charged with trespassing.

After the shooting in Aurora at the movie theater, I made the decision to remain armed, even in posted places, for my own safety and not be rendered defenseless. Since the posting businesses do not offer any guarantee to my safety, yet want me defenseless, that will never happen. Now if they offer me a personal, armed guard while I shop or watch a movie, then I'll consider being unarmed. In my opinion there should be a stipulation to no weapons signs. If a place requires you to be defenseless, THEY MUST ASSUME LIABILITY for your protection. Every. Single. Customer. Or. Patron. Period. 

This gets back to these people squealing “compromise” all the time. Hiring security for thousands of patrons every day would bankrupt them. Lawsuits from families who lost loved ones would bankrupt them. And yet they WANT their customers to be victims. If only 25% of their clients were armed, most of these mass shootings would end in seconds, and the body counts would be greatly reduced. We've seen the stories where armed citizens stopped the threat long before the police arrived. Sometimes before the 911 call was completed.

Remember this person? He opened fire in a food court at the mall. And a young man who had just gotten his carry license months earlier, not a lifelong shooter like me, killed this person from about 40yds, across the food court and stopped the threat. MSM refused to run the story, because it didn't fit the narrative. Armed good guy, stopped armed bad guy. How many lives were saved that day? The good guy had a semiautomatic pistol with 15 rds. so it also went against the magazine ban that seeks to limit a person to 10 rds. Bad guy dead good guy saves hundreds of people.