Target and Guns (crime, 2014, rifle, laws)

[LoveToRow]

Meh, Walmart is better anyway.

[Redraven]

"But starting today we will also respectfully request that guests not bring firearms to Target..."

Seems to me the key word there is "request". They are not making a "requirement" or a "demand", they are making a REQUEST!

As always, their store, they make the rules. Or, in this case, the REQUEST.

[WhipperSnapper 88]

The decision follows protests orchestrated by Moms Demand Action for Gun
Sense in America, a gun control group that in recent months achieved what once
seemed like an unlikely goal: convincing many major American companies to take a
stance on guns.

Meh, let the mommies demanding action have target and the few other little chain shops they've been able to get to release a statement on the issue.

Governor Christy just vetoed a bill that would have banned magazines over ten rounds and banned some guns outright,

Christie Vetoes Gun Magazine Reduction Bill - ABC News

Georgia's new law, referred to by gun haters as the "guns everywhere" bill just went in to effect on July 1st, exapnding where Georgians can legally defend themselves...

Georgia 'guns everywhere' bill takes effect | MSNBC

and a whole slew of other pro gun measures just went in to effect this week as well. I'll take our victories over theirs any day.

Virginia: New Pro-Gun/Pro-Hunting Laws Go Into Effect Today | The Daily Caller

NRA-ILA | Pennsylvania Pro-Hunting Legislation Passes State Senate

[WhipperSnapper 88]

Originally Posted by mattee01

I personally have never felt the need to take a gun out with me anywhere and I think if you feel the need to then you should re-evaluate either where you're living or where you're shopping.

Good! I'm glad for you.... Please don't try and force your decision on someone else....

Originally Posted by Redraven

"But starting today we will also respectfully request that guests not bring firearms to Target..."

Seems to me the key word there is "request". They are not making a "requirement" or a "demand", they are making a REQUEST!

As always, their store, they make the rules. Or, in this case, the REQUEST.

Gun controlers need a victory wherever they can find one.

They have to try and gin up momentum, even if that means lying to people.

[thecoalman]

Originally Posted by mattee01

I personally have never felt the need to take a gun out with me anywhere and I think if you feel the need to then you should re-evaluate either where you're living or where you're shopping.

Many people never need safety belts but that doesn't mean you shouldn't wear one.

Target can do what they want but the only legal recourse they have here in PA is to eject you from the store. If I want to walk into their store with concealed weapon there isn't damn thing they can do about it.

[natalie469]

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper 88

Meh, let the mommies demanding action have target and the few other little chain shops they've been able to get to release a statement on the issue.

Governor Christy just vetoed a bill that would have banned magazines over ten rounds and banned some guns outright,

Christie Vetoes Gun Magazine Reduction Bill - ABC News

Georgia's new law, referred to by gun haters as the "guns everywhere" bill just went in to effect on July 1st, exapnding where Georgians can legally defend themselves...

Georgia 'guns everywhere' bill takes effect | MSNBC

and a whole slew of other pro gun measures just went in to effect this week as well. I'll take our victories over theirs any day.

Virginia: New Pro-Gun/Pro-Hunting Laws Go Into Effect Today | The Daily Caller

NRA-ILA | Pennsylvania Pro-Hunting Legislation Passes State Senate

The mommies demanding action??? Why are you belittling them. So let me ask you this. When carrying your gun in public how many rapes and robberies have you thwarted.....none, so get over yourself and stop demeaning mothers.

[nicet4]

Originally Posted by Frank DeForrest

Their right.

And my right not to go there.

No, I never carry a firearm I don't even own one but it doesn't bother me to see someone wearing a gun.

[Fire and Ice]

Originally Posted by RooCeleste

I don't agree with the radicals who wave their long guns all around in public and I would never do that, but I'm also not opposed to guns and as long as Target doesn't have the appropriate 30.06 sign posted, I will continue to carry concealed in their stores in Texas. I will follow the law and if they don't want concealed handgun carriers in their stores, then they need to post the appropriate signage as required by law. I will follow the law, but I'm not going to take my gun out of my purse and leave it in the car just to go into Target if I am carrying, and just because Target "requests" it.

And, it isn't that I feel the "need" to carry a gun in Target; it's that if I NEED a gun in Target (think the Austin Walmart just a couple of years ago), I sure want to have it!

So telling you that they don't want it in their stores isn't enough? You are still going to disrespect their establishment by bringing in a firearm. You don't need a gun in target.

[BentBow]

Oh, the irony...

Gun target.

[SHABAZZ310]

Originally Posted by tickyul

Cr@ppy store with poor selection and not-so-hot prices.......fine with me.

You sound a little butt hurt...