After\u00a0a month of so of\u00a0coercion by Michael Bloomberg and his chorus of paid puppets, in a campaign that cost the former New York mayor and chief scold\u00a0millions, Target turned around and did…<\/p>\n
…next to nothing.<\/p>\n
Oh, they asked gun owners not to carry in their stores – meaning “carry openly”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Now, let’s be honest; \u00a0if I, Mitch Berg, Second Amendment activist,\u00a0owned a general-market retail operation, I would also <\/em>ask people, nicely, not to carry openly <\/em>in my store.\u00a0 Money from the tiny minority of anti-gunners, and the larger minority of people who are scared, put-off or confused about guns, is just as good as anyone else’s, and people who are opposed to or\u00a0irrationally afraid of gun are a solid 20+% of the market in most major metro areas – a small part of the market, but bigger than the open carry activist minority.\u00a0 Why send them all running away from my store?<\/p>\n Target is asking, not telling, gun owners to please not agitate the ninnies among their customers, thank you very much.<\/strong><\/p>\n For all you open carry supporters in the audience:\u00a0 I get it.\u00a0 A right not exercised is a right that can be taken by default.\u00a0 But the same goes for the rights of private property owners; they’ve got a right to give the customers the experience they, not you, design for them.\u00a0 And they’ve decided – not incorrectly – that open carry will scare away more ninnies than it will bring in shooters.\u00a0<\/p>\n So while the open-carry movement may call this a setback (or a call to action), for the mainstream of the second amendment movement, it’s a small win, or at the very least “not a loss”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After\u00a0a month of so of\u00a0coercion by Michael Bloomberg and his chorus of paid puppets, in a campaign that cost the former New York mayor and chief scold\u00a0millions, Target turned around and did… …next to nothing. Oh, they asked gun owners not to carry in their stores – meaning “carry openly”.\u00a0 Now, let’s be honest; \u00a0if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45489"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45537,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45489\/revisions\/45537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}