Gun Control Reform Activism

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts) Tue Sep 9, 2014, 04:40 PM Sep 2014

NRA promotes "situational awareness" for Kroger shoppers as Bloomberg backed gun control group

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launches 6 figure ad campaign against permissive open carry national policy of the grocery store giant...

That is right, some NRA types even on this very site and forum believe that going to the store for a jug of milk requires good citizens to be on the watch out for open carry guys in the yogurt aisle who might not be open carry patriots at all. They could be actual killers and insane people out to cause mayhem.

How to tell the difference merely requires "situational awareness", reading body language, judging character as you stand in the Express lane with your 2 litre jug and do a situational analysis of the open carry patriot/insane gun killer who is now out of sight in the bread and donuts aisle.

Milk or mad dash to the exit, it is all about awareness in your "situation".

A situation Kroger puts you in every day.

Truly, NRA types live in fear, they are truly, deeply and genuinely perplexed and puzzled as to why we all, liberals and conservatives and independents alike, why we all do not all want to live in that same fear.

They are lonely, I think.

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Upon spying these two in my local eatery I would not know whether to laugh, cry or just run.

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NRA promotes "situational awareness" for Kroger shoppers as Bloomberg backed gun control group (Original Post) Fred Sanders Sep 2014 OP

You walk into the store openly carrying a gun I drop what I am carrying and leave. upaloopa Sep 2014 #1

Exactly. It really is a respect thing when talking about walking into a store. Hoyt Sep 2014 #3

I agree Hoyt DashOneBravo Sep 2014 #12

I hear you, but the majority of gun owners believe this is just the price Hoyt Sep 2014 #13

IDK about the majority DashOneBravo Sep 2014 #15

Keep the groceries and leave and if the store wants payment tell them that happens when they Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #6

This message was self-deleted by its author steelsmith Sep 2014 #10

It's tough walking out the door to venture out without a gun or two. Hoyt Sep 2014 #2

People who cannot leave home without carrying a gun, concealed or open, flamin lib Sep 2014 #4

It is a dual diagnosis neurosis, flaming Avenger and cowardly Lion. Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #5

This message was self-deleted by its author steelsmith Sep 2014 #11

You'd be well-advised to run. Paladin Sep 2014 #7

Look at those two specimens TheCowsCameHome Sep 2014 #8

I have emailed to the campaign to use in future picture ads....and it is real. Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #9

Loony. tosh Sep 2014 #14

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)

1. You walk into the store openly carrying a gun I drop what I am carrying and leave.

Reply to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Tue Sep 9, 2014, 04:45 PM

Sep 2014

That's situation awareness.
But better would be a gunner being aware that people are afraid of them and out of respect for other people just don't carry a gun into the store. Or is that too much to ask?

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

3. Exactly. It really is a respect thing when talking about walking into a store.

Reply to upaloopa (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 9, 2014, 04:49 PM

Sep 2014

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These folks are just Aholes, and other gunners do nothing to suggest they stop acting like it.

DashOneBravo

(2,679 posts)

12. I agree Hoyt

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #3)

Wed Sep 10, 2014, 10:58 PM

Sep 2014

They are assholes. Please remember to not broad brush all "gunners".

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

13. I hear you, but the majority of gun owners believe this is just the price

Reply to DashOneBravo (Reply #12)

Wed Sep 10, 2014, 11:15 PM

Sep 2014

we must pay for them to have access to more weapons, in more places. The guy that has a gun or two for hunting and/or home protection is not my concern. Anything more than that, should be a concern.

DashOneBravo

(2,679 posts)

15. IDK about the majority

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #13)

Fri Sep 12, 2014, 10:03 PM

Sep 2014

I don't speak for that group and I agree that showing up in a coffee shop is disrespectful. I do know there are a lot of us who have no problems with regulation.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

6. Keep the groceries and leave and if the store wants payment tell them that happens when they

Reply to upaloopa (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 9, 2014, 05:02 PM

Sep 2014

ban the open carry nut jobs.

Or sue me and see you in court and see yourselves on the front page.

Eating at a restaurant? Walk out without paying the bill, how do you know the guy not a killer, why should me and my family wait around to find out....until the guy with a rifle 3 feet long and a string of ammo opens fire?

I have to sip my wine while keeping an eye out for the gun guy asking for a table?

Sorry, but I did not see "gun nut" on the menu.

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Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

2. It's tough walking out the door to venture out without a gun or two.

Reply to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Tue Sep 9, 2014, 04:47 PM

Sep 2014

Kroger, NRA, and gunners are wrong on this one.

Truthfully, the only thing you can get a Kroger that is not available elsewhere is their 3 flavor popsicles. That's not worth supporting them.

flamin lib

(14,559 posts)

4. People who cannot leave home without carrying a gun, concealed or open,

Reply to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Tue Sep 9, 2014, 04:53 PM

Sep 2014

are hopelessly afraid. They are terrified of everything around them and constantly look for that thing that will let them carry out the fantasy of heroism they carry along with the gun.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

5. It is a dual diagnosis neurosis, flaming Avenger and cowardly Lion.

Reply to flamin lib (Reply #4)

Tue Sep 9, 2014, 04:59 PM

Sep 2014

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Paladin

(28,765 posts)

7. You'd be well-advised to run.

Reply to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Tue Sep 9, 2014, 06:25 PM

Sep 2014

Any non-law enforcement individual who openly carries a gun into a public place is a person who really, really, really wants to use that firearm against another human being. Don't take chances with your life or the lives of your loved ones. Leave the establishment---then follow up with calls to the local manager of the place and the national office, explaining in no uncertain terms why you felt compelled to leave, why you'll never come back, and that you are advising other people to do likewise. It's time to stop screwing around with these dipshits.