Impact of 30.06 to businesses

[Jusme]

Another impact to a business posting is some folks, including me, avoid gun-free areas such as a business posting the 30.06/07 signs. Gun-free (posted) areas are magnets for crazy bad guys. Therefore the impact stats would need to include even those without a LTC who prefer to avoid GF areas.

This would be difficult to document since those without a LTC, probably don't look for signs like those with one would. However this may be a demographic we could use to further educate business owners who have posted their locations. If we spread the word to our friends and family who are not licensed, about the potential dangers of gun free zones then they could be another voice for us.

[rssecurity]

Gun-free (posted) areas are magnets for crazy bad guys.

The best case I know of is the Aurora Colorado shooting, where, as fox news (among others) puts it: "...out of all the movie theaters within 20 minutes of his apartment showing the new Batman movie that night, it was the only one where guns were banned..." (http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/09/ ... eater.html) An HPD officer, from whom I first learned this and was teaching a "surviving an active shooter" class, told me he was originally planning to hit a different theater, but changed targets when he learned his original target allowed CC.

The article mentions two other cases: "...We have witnessed mass public shootings in such places as the Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska and the Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City, Utah. In both cases, guns were banned at those particular malls, but not at other similar venues that allowed guns and were spared..."

[PhilBob]

If businesses understand how truly offensive to their customers that a 30.06 sign is most will get rid of the sign. If they understand how much it cost to get a new customer (advertising/marketing) they will dread losing customers that almost no one else will care about.

Restaurants, bars, hotels, and many other businesses put up "No Smoking" signs long before many municipalities required it. At that time, about 40% of the population were smokers. The signs have never come down, nor will they. Didn't/doesn't seem to bother them one iota, and they are acutely aware of their customer base. I don't see 30.06/07 signage as any different, especially as we are not even in the ballpark percentage wise. Doesn't hurt to try, and some will be successful (especially if the sign was put up in error by management due to erroneous information they had), but in the long run, we lose. MHO.

It is different than "No Smoking" signs. They don't say you can't bring your cigarettes or cigars onto the property; you just can't use them there.