Gun restricted areas.

Seattle has been doing a initiative to convince businesses to put up no-guns allowed signs.  Washington concealed carry holders can carry in Texas but us Texans cannot carry in Washington, so this doesn't really concern me but I want to put in my two cents anyway.

This is something of a grassroots effort and not a government effort from what I've read.  I'm against it as a gun person and as a business person.  As a gun person I think these restrictions are silly, you are basically telling this law abiding person that you don't trust them.  This person who has the government sanctioned trust to carry almost anywhere else (except government places, but that's another post) but in your store because you don't trust them.  The sign doesn't affect criminals in the least  because it only applies to concealed carry people.  So, in other words your saying "I don't trust you and I don't want your money".  You probably do want my money but why should I spend it where I'm not wanted?

As a business person (in Texas it's known as the 30.06 law) if I see the 30.06 sign in a store I pretty much just don't spend my money there.  They don't want my money and they don't trust me but I do wonder if the right (or wrong) legal person has thought this through.  If anyone can sue anyone for anything, then if you are denying me the legal right to protect myself does that mean that the onus of protection falls on you?  The government has already ruled that they are not beholden to any special duty to protect you (Warren v District of Columbia, 1981), they are only required to enforce laws and protect the general public; but if some business requires that I forfeit my best means of defense then do they willingly take on a special duty to protect me?  If so, then if something does happen are you and your business partly responsible?  When I go into the places that don't allow me to carry my chl (schools, churches, some hospitals, and a few others) am I extra vigilant?  Oh, hell yes.

No matter what the laws are I am the first layer of protection I have.  If that protection involves a .40 cal or knowing where cover is at then I'm doing it.  I teach my children the same because this is a crazy world and I want them to see it for decades more.