southoftheboarder
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When a sign is posted No Weapons Allowed, and you are carrying what do you do? Go in or bring your weapon to the car.
This is actually somewhat liberating.
I don't read signs so they don't bother me
Originally Posted by AlexanderA
This is actually somewhat liberating.
So is being naked in public, homeless, and/or jobless. Heck, when I worked in corrections there were inmates who were happiest in prison, liberated from the stress of providing for themselves.
As for me. I find having alternatives liberating. Sometimes I choose a 9mm, others a .45acp.
Signs in Virginia do not carry the weight of law with them. You could ignore them but if you are discovered having a gun with you they can ask you to leave. If you refuse then after the police arrive you can be charged with tresspassing but nothing for violating the no gun sign.
If I happen to actually see such a sign, I would either leave my pistol in the car or not go in.southoftheboarder said:When a sign is posted No Weapons Allowed, and you are carrying what do you do? Go in or bring your weapon to the car.
That's the zebra-at-the-waterhole philosophy -- "the crocodiles and lions will get some other zebra, not me."I think that carrying weapons routinely creates a kind of psychological dependency. I live in Virginia, but for 30 years I worked in the District of Columbia (parts of which are notorious high-crime areas). The entire District is a "no weapons allowed" zone, and on top of that I worked in a secure government building that was doubly a "no weapons allowed" zone. (Plus I traveled overseas in countries where weapons ownership/possession was highly frowned upon -- meaning that they put you in jail and throw away the key.) So under such circumstances you get used to not carrying and you adjust your behavior accordingly. This is actually somewhat liberating.