The Battle Hymn of the Republic.
Paul K was kind enough to send me the lyrics of The Battle Hymn of the Republic in PDF and we get to share on his kindness.
Two more stores ban Open Carry on their premises, don’t test them please.
First is ALDI USA:
At ALDI, the safety of our employees, customers and the community is our highest priority. Alongside many other businesses, we are asking that our customers refrain from openly displaying firearms in any of our stores, except for authorized law enforcement personnel.
— ALDI USA (@AldiUSA) September 9, 2019
The other is Meijer:
The safety of our customers and team members is our top priority, so we respectfully request that our customers do not open carry firearms at Meijer. We’ve made this decision because open carry can create an environment that makes our customers and team members feel unsafe.
— Meijer (@meijer) September 9, 2019
Meijer hits close to home because I love Meijer. It’s a big box store like Wal-Mart but the food is good, the quality of the merchandise is great, and it’s overall classier. I’d give anything for a Meijer in Huntsville.
Just take a Gander into some of the responses to these Tweets:
Oh, they most certainly fucking can.
These are both private sector companies, they don’t have to respect your Second Amendment rights on their property.
Here is the thing. Meijer was my favorite place to do my regular weekly shopping trip when I lived in Illinois. In Illinois, any business can ban concealed carry by posting the 430 ILCS 66/65 sign on their entrance.
And before any internet chest thumpers who do not live in Illinois say “but that doesn’t have the force of law” go read the statute.
Except as otherwise provided, a licensee in violation of this Act shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor. A second or subsequent violation is a Class A misdemeanor. The Department may suspend a license for up to 6 months for a second violation and shall permanently revoke a license for 3 or more violations of Section 65 of this Act. Any person convicted of a violation under this Section shall pay a $150 fee to be deposited into the Mental Health Reporting Fund, plus any applicable court costs or fees.
You walk past a 430 ILCS 66/65 sign with your gun and you get caught, it’s a Class B misdemeanor. Illinois doesn’t fuck around with that. The last time I was in a Meijer in Illinois, they hadn’t posted the signs.
So go ahead and test ALDI or Meijer and their open carry policy. See what happens.
I can tell you what will happen, they will decide it’s not worth the trouble and will go Target on us and become gun-free zones, banning open carry and concealed carry.
Then you will have screwed over every gun owner in Illinois, whose ability to carry concealed sits on a knife-edge and the goodwill of corporate management.
Yes, you have the right to open carry. I support that right. But when you abuse that right and scare the mundanes, you hurt the rest of us when you force companies to react.
This is how Red Flags will go as long as there is no protection for the accused
As seen on the Twitter:
So if we accept everything here to be true, a coworker filed a false complaint because of a personal slight, leading to this guy getting fired and treated like a criminal, even though his manager knew that he was getting screwed.
Of course, the whole being escorted off the premises by police and sent home in a Lyft is probably corporate policy that must occur under these circumstances.
In addition to this humiliation, as he looks for new employment, I can only imagine how this will affect his ability to get a job. “Why did you leave your last job” is a common question in hiring applications. There is no way to answer that in a way that looks good.
I’m not sure if he could sue the former co-worker for slander, and that would require him to hire a lawyer first, which is no small financial feat.
So if an angry co-worker can mess up a guy’s life just by falsely reporting him to their employer, how much worse can it get by falsely reporting someone to the police.
Consider what we’ve seen with SWATing. We can expect the same people who would be inclined to SWAT someone abusing Red Flag laws.
We need a way to deal with these nutjobs before they kill a lot of people. But giving other nutjobs the ability to use the law to destroy innocent people’s lives is not a fix.
Political Promises v American Reality.
Political Promises:
“I want to be really clear that that’s exactly what we are going to do,” the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate said. “Americans who own AR-15s, AK-47s, will have to sell them to the government. We’re not going to allow them to stay on our streets, to show up in our communities, to be used against us in our synagogues, our churches, our mosques, our Walmarts, our public places.”
Beto (Fake Taco) O’Rourke
American Reality:
If you want a glimpse at how gun and magazine bans might work across America, look no further than New Jersey.
The state’s ban on so-called high-capacity magazines went into effect in December of last year, but results so far show that patriotic gun owners won’t fall for government-enforced disarmament so easily.
The ban makes possession of magazines that hold over 10 rounds illegal for most people.
Punishment for owning one of the targeted magazines includes 18 months in prison and a whopping $10,000 fine.
According to NJ.com, a New Jersey State Police spokesman confirmed that not a single magazine has been turned in to the state, despite the jail time and massive fine that could come with the possession of a banned item.
NJ Magazine Ban Backfires as Not a Single One Has Been Turned In
Scene from a Wal-Mart In San Francisco
Wal-Mart: “Due to a number of public defecation incidents, we kindly ask Wal-Mart shoppers to only defecate in the stalls in the restrooms.”
Most People: “It’s their store, that sounds reasonable, even polite.”
Homeless Activists: “San Francisco says it’s my right to shit wherever I want. How dare you infringe on muh right to drop a five-alarm chili deuce in an aisle?”
Wal-Mart: “It’s our store. We’re open to the public, but it’s private property.”
Homeless Activist: “See you said ‘open to the public.’ That practically makes you a city street. I can shit in your store wherever I want and then set up a tent and sleep in it if I like. Fuck you.”
Wal-Mart: “Please don’t.”
Homeless Activist: “We’ll see about that” *Goes into the produce aisle and leaves a brown Jackson Pollock painting on the floor by the tomatoes.*
Wal-Mart: “Sir, we’ve called the police. You’re banned from the Wal-Mart.”
Homeless Activist: “But muh rights!!!”
Most People: “Jesus, what an asshole.”
And sometimes you wonder if Bloomberg is paying them
Gun rights activists in Texas are testing Walmart’s request not to open-carry in stores by doing just that.
David Amad, the vice president of Open Carry Texas, told The New York Times the 38,000 members of his group have openly carried their guns inside Walmart stores since the retailer announced last week it is “respectfully requesting” customers to no longer openly bring guns into its stores.
He said none of the members who have done so have been asked to leave.
Gun rights activists test Walmart request not to open-carry guns into store
You were asked nicely to stop doing something. You double down on the stupid and then go running to tell everybody.
What could go wrong?
All of the sudden Florida not having Open Carry is an advantage. It keeps the idiotic behavior down.
SMH