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| Kroger asks customers to stop openly carrying guns in stores |
| 2019-09-04 |
| [The Hill] Kroger, the country’s largest grocery chain, has asked its customers to no longer openly carry firearms in its stores. "Kroger is respectfully asking that customers no longer openly carry firearms into our stores, other than authorized law enforcement officers," Jessica Adelman, who serves as group vice president of corporate affairs, said in a statement to Reuters on Tuesday afternoon. "We are also joining those encouraging our elected leaders to pass laws that will strengthen background checks and remove weapons from those who have been found to pose a risk for violence," she continued. Prior to the change in policy, Adelman told the news agency that store locations adhered to local gun laws. The announcement comes just hours after Walmart said it will formally end handgun sales and asked customers not to openly carry firearms following a mass shooting that took place at one of its stores in El Paso, Texas, last month. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #3 #1 I agree, it makes you the first target of a gunman. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2019-09-04 07:57 |
| #2 Open carry worked in LA, ask the Koreans. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-09-04 05:21 |
| #1 Open carry is a recipe for disaster. Just my personal opinion on the matter. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-09-04 01:04 |