Doesn\u2019t affect me, I don\u2019t shop there anyway.<\/span><\/p>\nThe reason is peculiar.\u00a0 A person with a permit to carry had an accidental discharge in one of their stores so they\u2019re asking customers not to bring guns into their stores.\u00a0 \u201cYou don\u2019t need a gun to try on jeans. . . it is with the safety and security of our employees and customers in mind . . . .\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span>If it actually were an issue of safety, then all guns should be banned, including cops (they have their own problems with accidental discharges).\u00a0 But no, Levis is fine with cops\u2019 guns, it\u2019s only permitted carriers that are asked not to bring guns to the store.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span>Will Levis install metal detectors to detect someone carrying a gun in his waistband?\u00a0 Will they enforce the rule?\u00a0 Nope, just announcing a policy that they request honest, law-abiding people obey.\u00a0 Basically, they don\u2019t want my trade.\u00a0 Sounds as if I was right to shop elsewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span>Another thought, from a buddy who said:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span>Since the event that triggered this notion was somebody who had no place to safely store a firearm while trying on clothes, the responsible solution would be to provide appropriate gun lockers at the dressing rooms.\u00a0 You know, like the lockers in jail house lobbies, where a gun is likely to be carried to that point but is not allowed beyond. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span>Sure, lockers would cost money.\u00a0 But if this were a case of needing transgender dressing rooms, Levis would have built them already.\u00a0 This issue is not a matter of cost, it\u2019s a matter of cost-per-unit-of-politically-correctness. \u00a0There\u2019s no convenient expression for that.\u00a0 We know that 550 foot-pounds per second = one Horsepower. \u00a0What is a suitable expression to shorthand penny-pinching-virtue-signaling?\u00a0 One Dickhead? \u00a0One Weasel?<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span>Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nI think coming up with a measurement system for virtue-signaling would be an epic public service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Levis bans guns in its stores\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t affect me, I don\u2019t shop there anyway. The reason is peculiar.\u00a0 A person with a permit to carry had an accidental discharge in one of their stores so they\u2019re asking customers not to bring guns into their stores.\u00a0 \u201cYou don\u2019t need a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61215","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=61215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61231,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61215\/revisions\/61231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}