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2019-09-04 Home Front: Culture Wars
Kroger asks customers to stop openly carrying guns in stores
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Posted by Besoeker 2019-09-04 00:59|| || Front Page|| [10326 views ]  Top

#1 Open carry is a recipe for disaster. Just my personal opinion on the matter.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-09-04 01:04||   2019-09-04 01:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Open carry worked in LA, ask the Koreans.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-09-04 05:21||   2019-09-04 05:21|| Front Page Top

#3 #1 I agree, it makes you the first target of a gunman.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-09-04 07:57||   2019-09-04 07:57|| Front Page Top

#4 I like guns, they are useful. But open carry is just giving people you don't even know information they just don't need.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-09-04 08:33||   2019-09-04 08:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Open carry can be useful, especially if you are wanting to project a protective force (armed guard, armed Koreans defending store, etc.).

Other than that I find the benefits aren't worth the negatives that open carry produces. Concealed is better for most situations in my not so humble opinion.
Posted by DarthVader 2019-09-04 08:41||   2019-09-04 08:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Good comments all, but keep it concealed and next to your person so as not to give the wrong folks ideas as MM states.

'Happiness is a warm gun' as the song goes.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-09-04 11:02||   2019-09-04 11:02|| Front Page Top

#7  Open carry worked in LA, ask the Koreans.

I would call that perimeter defense, but I get your point.
Posted by SteveS 2019-09-04 11:47||   2019-09-04 11:47|| Front Page Top

#8 I understand why people should have the right to open carry, and I don't generally object to other people doing it. But it doesn't seem like a smart thing to do unless you're trying to intimidate people or project authority. However, I find it incredibly weird how many people find it terrifying. What a bunch of ninnies. If people are going to start shooting, in all likelihood they would have started before you saw them/as soon as they walked in the door. The people you see open carrying are the good guys.
Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2019-09-04 15:51||   2019-09-04 15:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Re #8, a common ingredient of mass shootings seems to be the gun is invisible until the shooting starts. Not because the perps are tacticool geniuses but because the sheep are oblivious.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-09-04 18:53||   2019-09-04 18:53|| Front Page Top

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