LK>  DRN>  That's another problem.  If there is a sign and you don't
LK>  DRN>  see it, you could be arguing about that while your lawyer
LK>  DRN>  gets a couple of hundred dollars an hour!
LK> Oh, if I'm asked to leave I'll comply, even politely.  Once
LK> they ask you leave, and you =do=, what can they do to you? You 
LK> obeyed them and are no longer trespassing.
That should work, but if they want to be total jerks, they could call 
the police and ask to have you arrested if you walk past the sign!  I 
can't imagine that could *ever* happen, any store I've ever heard of 
would ask you to "please read the sign and comply."
LK>  DRN>  and if you're carrying concealed, they probably won't
LK>  DRN>  ask.  Fanny packs are pretty obvious but I've *never*
LK>  DRN>  heard a word about mine, I suspect the store only cares
LK>  DRN>  about customers who might become nervous, they don't care
LK>  DRN>  whether you're armed or not.  In my own opinion, this is
LK>  DRN>  a very real concern.  I wouldn't want anybody leaving my
LK>  DRN>  store without buying because another customer made them
LK>  DRN>  uncomfortable shopping there.
LK> You might want to inform the "uncomfortable" customer that they're
LK> statistically in better hands that if a cop was there.  About 10% le
LK> to be shot by mistake and any crimes are about 10% more likely to be
LK> by an armed civilian than by cops.
In the first place, neither you or I would ever get to talk to the 
uncomfortable customer, they would merely leave quietly without buying 
anything and tell all their stupid friends "Oh, don't go there, there 
was a bad man with a gun in that store!"  So you lose business with NO 
chance of rebuttal.
In the second place, many people today are brought up believing "guns 
are evil, guns cause crime, only criminals have guns."  You'd be wasting 
your breath.  Years ago, I met a man who moved to Arizona from another 
state who was trained from birth to believe anyone with a gun was a 
criminal, a mafia guy, because they were the only ones who had guns and 
honest citizens *never* had guns.  He was an intelligent person so it 
took him only a few weeks to realize all he'd been taught was wrong but 
had he never left the place of his birth (I won't name it but the 
initials are NYC) his thinking would have never changed.
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