Posted on Jul 28, 2015
TSgt Joshua Copeland
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Seen something interesting this morning with regards to the gun debate. The question posed was rather simple. Should businesses and/or locations that are "gun free" be held financial liable for injuries received as a result the policy. Basically, if as a business decision you remove your patrons and employees right to self defense, you then take the onus to provide that defense and if you fail to do so, you are liable for not doing it. RP Fam, what are your thoughts? Is this a good idea? Will it in read or decrease "gun free zones"?
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Who cares? in NH those "no guns" signs have no legal authority. They merely state the company policy. If for some reason they discover you carrying all they can do is tell you to leave.
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CW3 Harvey K.
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That should be the limit of the permissible punishment. The boss of the place made a rule. Somebody was caught breaking the rule, so that rule-breaker gets thrown out. That is the limit of the boss's authority over his business and the people he has as customers.
Making it a crime -- in some places a FELONY, to exercise an enumerated constitutional right in a peaceable, lawful manner is a travesty of Justice.
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COL Vincent Stoneking
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No, I am not required to do business with that establishment. If I do chose to do so, I have done just that - made a choice. I could have made a different one. (and, in fact likely would)

The analogous situation where there would be a "duty to protect" is where I am being detained against my will and required to disarm (think in Police custody, jail, a public building that I am REQUIRED to be in).
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Capt Richard I P.
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All in all I am not opposed to private proprietors setting conditions on their customers' arms.

But I'm hugely opposed to government dictated zones of citizen disarmament (all of them).

Especially the most absurd ones. We need to arm the armed forces.

https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/arm-the-armed-forces
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