Open carry

[matt819]

Here in NH, at least my corner if it, you don’t see much open carry. In fact, I couldn’t even tell you what the law is on open or concealed carry.

So, this morning I see a guy carrying a semi automatic on one hip and a cell phone on the other. Oh, and a don’t tread on me t shirt. This is on the grocery store. I had a few thoughts. He looked stupid. It’s the fucking market basket, not the streets of Baghdad. My next thought was that if something happened I’d put even odds that he would grab the cell phone instead of the gun. It’s pathetic to feel you have to open carry a weapon on a grocery store to feel safe.

This is not a discussion of open carry or r2kba. This is an observation of one idiotic individual in the supermarket.

[pandr32]

1. If I saw that I would leave my cart

...and tell the store manager why. I would also tell them I would not be back until open carry in the store was not permitted.
If there weren't other grocery stores nearby I would go out of my way to shop elsewhere.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. AFAIK, the store could refuse him service and ask him to leave.

You don't have a right to walk into a private business carrying a gun if they do not wish you to.

[Shermann]

7. Those wishes would need to be expressed through signage which meets the state legal requirements nt

[Thomas Hurt]

10. and it is still private property and they can ask anyone to leave for any reason.

[Shermann]

11. True, a private property owner can demand someone leave the property for any reason

At that point they would lose the right to open carry or even be there.

So I should say it is more practical to hang clear, legally binding signage of the owner's wishes.

[dchill]

3. Yes. Pathetic.

I'm so brave that I go EVERYWHERE without a gun. Devil may care come what may.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Anybody who feels the need to bring a gun to the average American grocery store

is a sad, terrified little man with delusions of courage and a tiny penis. It's a Krogers or a Cub Foods, not fucking Fallujah, you morons.

[ooky]

5. "He looked stupid".

That's always my first thought when I see one of those morons.

They think it makes them look "tough".

[magicarpet]

6. Anyone who open carries in a grocery store while on an errand to get a gallon of milk,...

Is a macho meathead who thinks he is advertising to the world his bona fides of extreme masculinity dripping from his every pore.

It has nothing to do with danger or protection from same. But more to do with a little boy desperate to show the world how tough a man that little boy has matured into. He commands attention, fear, and respect, as he sees in his eye and tiny sophomoric mind that is saturated in toxic masculinity absent and devoid of any speck of humanity.

[Shermann]

9. What if the meathead is just on the way back from the shooting range?

And is only thinking about 2% or skim or whole?

I think there may be a failure of imagination here despite the flair for the dramatic.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. The meathead could leave his gun locked up safely in the trunk of his car

instead of showing it off in the grocery store, like a baboon displaying his genitals during mating season.

[WinstonSmith4740]

14. Exactly!!

[demigoddess]

19. and/or just a showoff who wants to be noticed. but you are probably right.

[spanone]

8. Little dicks, Big guns

[GulfCoast66]

12. Hey now. Many of us with little dicks feel no need to carry a gun around

[spanone]

13. 😆Shhhhhh

[StarryNite]

15. In Arizona it's not that uncommon.

Many are the same jerks who don't want to mask up. However, they feel the need to protect themselves with guns from who knows what because it's so risky going to the grocery store. I guess you never know when things could get ugly and result in a shootout over a stale cupcake. But 162,707 COVID deaths in the US today and somehow they don't think that's a problem for them. Frickin' idiots.

[IronLionZion]

16. People with gun fantasies are often hoping for an excuse to use it

so accidental discharges or shooting someone over a petty dispute happens often. But in case of an actual mass shooting, these people run and hide instead of being a hero.

[Red Mountain]

17. If they feel the need to carry

I always suspect they may have a need. Scumbags are always afraid somebody is coming for them.

They've got a target on their backs and they're putting other people at risk.

Even if they don't......easy access to lethal force isn't something to be encouraged. People (especially inexperienced ones) make mistakes.

Kick them out.

[Demonaut]

18. was he masked?

[matt819]

22. Funnily enough

Yes, as was The woman he was shopping with.

The city has mandated masks for all indoor businesses. I’d say compliance is close to 100% in the places I regularly go to.

[JDC]

20. I lived in NH for years. I don't think I ever saw anyone open carry

Unless they were hunting on my property. To why I would call their attention to the Posted No Hunting signs and ask them to move out. Never once an issue.

This guy was looking for trouble/confrontation and the cell phone was there to video tape anyone "daring" to say something imo.

I strangely miss Market Basket and Shaw's...