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Should Target take action to keep rifles out of their stores?[W:37]

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Re: Should Target take action to keep rifles out of their stores?

The title is miss leading. Are we talking about Target selling rifles, or about them not permitting open or concealed carry in their stores?

Because I don't think carrying a rifle around in public is OK regardless?
 
Re: Should Target take action to keep rifles out of their stores?

Should Target take action to keep rifles out of their stores? | Today's Question | Minnesota Public Radio News

So there's pressure on Target to restrict gun carrying. Now my own opinion is that open carry like this is more harmful to gun rights. If guns are OK, what else should openly allowed? Should we openly allow gay sex in the frozen foods aisle? You have that right too, right? It's my right to go barefoot, but they won't let me do that.

Thanks for the image that i did not want to see!

But whenever i think of homosexuals this video always comes to mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euXQbZDwV0w
 
Re: Should Target take action to keep rifles out of their stores?

Sex and bare feet aren't constitutional issues. ;)
 
Re: Should Target take action to keep rifles out of their stores?

The title is miss leading. Are we talking about Target selling rifles, or about them not permitting open or concealed carry in their stores?

Because I don't think carrying a rifle around in public is OK regardless?


Answer me this one question please.

Had Trayvon saw a gun on zimmermans person, Do you think trayvon still attacks the creepy *** cracka?
 
Re: Should Target take action to keep rifles out of their stores?

Answer me this one question please.

Had Trayvon saw a gun on zimmermans person, Do you think trayvon still attacks the creepy *** cracka?

Answering that question would derail the thread.
 
Re: Should Target take action to keep rifles out of their stores?

Answer me this one question please.

Had Trayvon saw a gun on zimmermans person, Do you think trayvon still attacks the creepy *** cracka?

If he did, was he justified in banging Z's head on the sidewalk? Self defense would apply to him too, wouldn't you think?
 
Re: Should Target take action to keep rifles out of their stores?

Sex and bare feet aren't constitutional issues. ;)

But at what point is it OK for them to restrict things. Maybe my barefeet are a political statement, and I'm exercising my First Amendment rights. Why does the Second override the First?
 
Re: Should Target take action to keep rifles out of their stores?

But at what point is it OK for them to restrict things. Maybe my barefeet are a political statement, and I'm exercising my First Amendment rights. Why does the Second override the First?

Frankly, since they are a privately owned business, they probably have the right to restrict just about anything that isn't constitutionally protected.
 
Re: Should Target take action to keep rifles out of their stores?

Should Target take action to keep rifles out of their stores? | Today's Question | Minnesota Public Radio News

So there's pressure on Target to restrict gun carrying. Now my own opinion is that open carry like this is more harmful to gun rights. If guns are OK, what else should openly allowed? Should we openly allow gay sex in the frozen foods aisle? You have that right too, right? It's my right to go barefoot, but they won't let me do that.

People have the right to keep and bear arms - that is in the Second Amendment. Now gay sex in the frozen food aisle is NOT a civil liberty (no matter how many progressives would love it to be).

I have absolutely no problem with concealed or open carry.

IMO, gun owners are more sane, knowledgeable and intelligent than your typical US citizen or illegal squatter.

I've never understood this whole "guns are bad" or "guns are scary" hysteria - and that's all it is - hysteria.

Besides, those who open carry do so not because they feel threatened but do so to make a political statement, and you better believe those guns are safely secured and are no danger to anyone.
 
Re: Should Target take action to keep rifles out of their stores?

If he did, was he justified in banging Z's head on the sidewalk? Self defense would apply to him too, wouldn't you think?

Being followed does not constitute a threat. I often follow other cars going down the road just happen to be going the same way. Does that constitute a threat to the driver in front of me?
Nope.
 
Re: Should Target take action to keep rifles out of their stores?

Answer me this one question please.

Had Trayvon saw a gun on zimmermans person, Do you think trayvon still attacks the creepy *** cracka?

Is this still an issue? Your hero got off with no charges and is free to practice his 2nd amendment rights and point guns at his girlfriend.
 
Re: Should Target take action to keep rifles out of their stores?

Should Target take action to keep rifles out of their stores? | Today's Question | Minnesota Public Radio News

So there's pressure on Target to restrict gun carrying. Now my own opinion is that open carry like this is more harmful to gun rights. If guns are OK, what else should openly allowed? Should we openly allow gay sex in the frozen foods aisle? You have that right too, right? It's my right to go barefoot, but they won't let me do that.
I think carrying rifles into a store is a bit asinine. But when people want to take away ones constitutional right, those in favor of retaining their rights will push back. I would never carry my rifle or shotgun into targets or any other store, but if I was wearing my .38 I would give it a second thought. But actions like this, carrying rifles in a Target store is what happens when some people want to trample on other people’s rights. Both sides go to the extremes.
 
Re: Should Target take action to keep rifles out of their stores?

Being followed does not constitute a threat. I often follow other cars going down the road just happen to be going the same way. Does that constitute a threat to the driver in front of me?
Nope.

There's a difference between someone happening to be behind you and being followed. But I also get that when someone talks about that case, there's no sanity.
 
Re: Should Target take action to keep rifles out of their stores?

Target is a private sector company, they should be allowed to ban whatever they want from their stores as long as the bans do not violate civil rights. And people can choose whether or not to shop there.
 
Re: Should Target take action to keep rifles out of their stores?

Target absolutely has a right to say what you can or cannot do on their property. If they don't want people bringing guns in their doors, that is their prerogative. That said, I don't personally favor such a ban. Some one carrying a rifle slung on their shoulder doesn't bother me, as long as its done in a safe manner.

I don't get the freak out reaction on both sides. Some people are all like "Oh my God, a gun! Run for the hills!" and others act as if Target or Chipolte is somehow infringing upon their rights to own a gun. To me both sides need to just calm down and chill a little.
 
Re: Should Target take action to keep rifles out of their stores?

Should Target take action to keep rifles out of their stores? | Today's Question | Minnesota Public Radio News

So there's pressure on Target to restrict gun carrying. Now my own opinion is that open carry like this is more harmful to gun rights. If guns are OK, what else should openly allowed? Should we openly allow gay sex in the frozen foods aisle? You have that right too, right? It's my right to go barefoot, but they won't let me do that.
I thought this thread was about Target selling rifles.
 
Re: Should Target take action to keep rifles out of their stores?

Should Target take action to keep rifles out of their stores? | Today's Question | Minnesota Public Radio News

So there's pressure on Target to restrict gun carrying. Now my own opinion is that open carry like this is more harmful to gun rights. If guns are OK, what else should openly allowed? Should we openly allow gay sex in the frozen foods aisle? You have that right too, right? It's my right to go barefoot, but they won't let me do that.
Although your OP is retarded, Target can have whatever kind of dress code they want.
 
Re: Should Target take action to keep rifles out of their stores?

Target has never sold rifles.
I was going to ask which stores OP was talking about because I've never seen a Target sell rifles either.
 
Re: Should Target take action to keep rifles out of their stores?

Should Target take action to keep rifles out of their stores? | Today's Question | Minnesota Public Radio News

So there's pressure on Target to restrict gun carrying. Now my own opinion is that open carry like this is more harmful to gun rights. If guns are OK, what else should openly allowed? Should we openly allow gay sex in the frozen foods aisle? You have that right too, right? It's my right to go barefoot, but they won't let me do that.

Welcome to my "Not to be taken seriously" list. You clearly do not understand lawful rights.
 
Re: Should Target take action to keep rifles out of their stores?

I don't know why anyone would want to lug a rifle around in a Target store, when they could just have a pistol on their belt.



Unless they expect to be ambushed between Target and home, and that's kind of a different issue of something being wrong...



About the only reason to do so is as a political statement, or else sheer attention-whoring... and it is often hard to tell the two apart.



Don't get me wrong; I am about as pro-gun as it gets, and I favor open carry in general... but I can't see lugging a rifle around in Target while shopping (unless I believed I was under serious and imminent threat, and if I was under serious/imminent threat WTF am I shopping for??)


Walking down the road or street with a rifle, that's one thing, there are a number of legitimate reasons to do that... wandering around Target or the mall or entering a restaurant with one is odd even to me. Addendum: if it was in a case or gun bag that would be far more reasonable than carrying it around at low-ready.
 
Re: Should Target take action to keep rifles out of their stores?

Maybe they were getting help purchasing the correct "clip" for their riffle. :)
 
Re: Should Target take action to keep rifles out of their stores?

If guns are OK, what else should openly allowed? Should we openly allow gay sex in the frozen foods aisle? You have that right too, right? It's my right to go barefoot, but they won't let me do that.

Only someone on the extreme far-wrong would equate engaging in perverted sexual activities in public with openly exercising one of one's most essential Constitutional rights.
 
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