Target asks customers to leave firearms at home

[jhood001]

Why doesn't law enforcement carry their long guns into department stores?

I've seen plenty entering stores. Whether they're grabbing something on their way home or they're responding to a shop-lifting call.

Never seen it, but I can't for the life of me figure out why.

I mean beyond the reason that there is absolutely no fucking point in doing it unless a known threat level exists. And the funny thing is that they could do it and nobody could stop them... but they don't.

If anyone can figure this out for me, let me know. And if any of you would like to use 'awareness' or 'desensitizing the masses' as a REAL argument... Well, I hope a 6 hour long gay pride parade chooses the road you live on for their next march.

If I saw any of the characters pictured in this thread doing what they were doing, I would be slowly making my way towards an exit.

[Gman]

No MDA was responsible for that as well as several other stores before the OC guys even started with their shenanigans. My "brain waves" were sending the message they are an insignificant skirmish in a long battle and not worth presenting such a major distraction to our cause or point of contention in our ranks. I promise you Target could give a crap about those guys, they are responding to what they perceive as a business decision based not on the actions of those guys but the complaints of MDA which would (and did) exist before those guys. Condemning them does nothing for us, fighting the real enemy (remember the folks trying to take your guns?) is what's important here.

Bullseye.

[boomerhc9]

Now don't get me wrong with what I'm about to say, but I think this may partially be just a little image problem. Just a little. Would people react the same way if those young men were clean shaven, well groomed, and juuust a little better dressed?

Like i said, I'm very guilty about this. I am the worst dresser out there, can't accesorize clothing, and dress for comfort, not to impress.
It does not help that i'm color blind to a couple of colors. However, i am most comfortable in a t-shirt, camo shorts, and either sandals, or ankle socks and sketchers shoes.

Maybe to send the right message, we should iron our pants, and put on a button up shirt.

[Ridge]

Now don't get me wrong with what I'm about to say, but I think this may partially be just a little image problem. Just a little. Would people react the same way if those young men were clean shaven, well groomed, and juuust a little better dressed?

A bunch of guys showing up in suits and sporting rifles would leave just as much if not more concerned for my safety.

[boomerhc9]

P.s., if someone has a problem with my fashion faux pax-rific fashion sense, they can take my clothes from my cold dead scrawny, bony pasty dead body. I already look like a walking skeleton, so it will be tough for them to know when to start stripping me down. Lol

[cstone]

Whistler made the point that many of us in Colorado don't really get. In Texas, the only firearms permitted to be openly carried are long guns. Legally, a citizen may carry an AK or a Mosin but may not legally open carry a handgun. I understand the point of the open carry demonstrations in Texas were to point out the absurdity of the current open carry laws in Texas.

This obviously is not the case today in Colorado and for people in Colorado who support legal possession of firearms, I would think there would be more understanding of the statement they are trying to make. I will not criticize those citizens in Texas who chose to make that point in Texas.

I don't believe any progressive, anti-gun people in this country care what any of us say or do. They will use anything, say anything, do almost anything to infringe on the rights of law abiding citizens who support the possession and bearing of firearms.

I support Constitutional Carry nationally. I would like to see the same position as Wyoming on owning and carrying of firearms in every state in the nation.

Be safe.

[boomerhc9]

A bunch of guys showing up in suits and sporting rifles would leave just as much if not more concerned for my safety.

This! 100 % also!

I think a sudden boom in aAssad agents would make me nervous too.
Just a button up shirt and some khakis, would likely do the trick. Unless you are ridge, then just a button up shirt and some corduroy jeans.

[boomerhc9]

On second thought, ridge, skip the corduroy: http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/image...mite/NP5_L.jpg

[Irving]

Imagine you have zero contact with guns in your life. You see one of the three people walk into a store with a long gun. Are you eyes going to fall on the large hole in that America flag shirt, or the muzzle of the rifle? Suggesting that they dress better is like saying that a bank robber would get more cooperation from bank patrons if he first complimented their hair before jamming his pistol in their face and screaming at them to get on the floor.

[Gman]

A bunch of guys showing up in suits and sporting rifles would leave just as much if not more concerned for my safety.

Ridge, are you afraid of guns in general, only guns that you don't personally own, or only guns that you can see in the open? Is it the format of the firearm in your presence that bothers you?