3 June 15
âNo Guns Allowedâ Signs:
In Washington DC, and numerous other places where âshall-issueâ CCW laws are finally coming into effect, many among the chronically fearful, âonly-criminals-should-have-gunsâ crowd have made it a campaign to encourage retail businesses to post âno guns allowedâ signs on their doors and windows.
The purpose is, of course, to make concealed carriers of guns feel ostracized and unwelcome, thus discouraging the practice. Iâm sure armed-robbery suspects will âfeel badâ too!
These are the same naive, adolescent buffoons who interminably predicted a âbloodbathâ when âshall-issueâ CCW laws were first passed. When the âbloodbathâ for which they were fervently hoping never materialized (in fact, violent crime sharply when down), they, of course, invariably developed amnesia!
Curiously, the only places where violent crime is increasing are the very places (mostly rotting, godforsaken inner-cities) where gun-ownership and going armed are severely restricted, at least among the few law-abiding who remain. Violent criminals, naturally, never give a thought to such restrictions.
Funny thing: violent criminals donât pay much attention to âno-guns-allowedâ signs either!
So, what to do?
The only correct course of action with regard to âno-guns-allowed-signsâ posted on retail businesses is to ignore them. Our world overflows with signs as it is, and it is thus easy for one to fail to notice them anyway!
When youâre going armed, contrary to posted signs, the only thing a business-owner can do is ask you to leave. When you subsequently depart immediately, there is nothing else he can do.
However, the point is this:
How will he, or anyone else, know? Unless you tell him, or otherwise make a spectacle of yourself, the fact that youâre carrying concealed will be known only to you, and you can thus go about your business undisturbed.
Unless the particular business-owner wants to install airport-style metal detectors, and staff them during all business hours, the whole âsignâ issue becomes meaningless symbolism, and a moot point, and should be!
As noted above, you can make a spectacle of yourself, and you can loudly and enthusiastically argue the point, when youâre so inclined. For one, Iâm not!
I try to get through my day, conducting my business as normal and necessary, doing my best to be courteous and polite to everyone, but otherwise minding my own business and maintaining a low personal profile.
Of course, while doing all this, Iâm constantly armed and ready, but no one else knows, nor do they need to, nor do I think I need anyoneâs permission!
âGo to heaven for the climate, hell for the company.â
Mark Twain
/John
