What if OC has the effect of 30.06 signs coming down....Maybe this is crazy talk, but stick with me for a bit....Taypo wrote:TexasGal wrote:I am just hoping everyone who is super eager to carry openly exercise a little sensitivity or we may well see a lot of new signage. Too many people have been led by the media to think we are all the same as OCT and the like. It was videos of those wanna be's that were put on the screen just about every time open carry was covered. Let's try our best to "look" and behave a lot better than that to people who seriously may feel afraid or offended at first. Heck, I already have a friend asking me where he can get 30.07 signs for his business. He has a CHL and is not opposed to the open carry law but he is opposed to having to deal with his customer's views on it.
Same situation with me. CHLs are welcome, including employees, but customer reaction to OC is probably going to drive a 30.07.
Opposition to guns can be an idealogical/philosophical issue for a lot of folks. Businesses don't receive complaints about concealed carry because, well it's concealed. Business respond to customer feedback (positive or negative). If OC is a net negative or at least is obvious enough to cause enough customer complaints, then I'd certainly expect 30.07 signs to go up. A very visible cause and effect of a sign & a behavior change.
So, what does this mean practically speaking if 30.07 signs show up? There is a finite amount of space available to post stuff in businesses. I used to own a business, and the last thing I'd want to do is clutter it up with signs that weren't revenue generating. Couple that with the fact that the 30.06 signage seems to need to be changed, and maybe the new 30.06 signs are never replaced.