Cedar Park Dad wrote: Well part of the issue here is that I'm talking about a CHLer here. Not that we're better but that there is the additional issue of a firearm involved.
EEllis wrote: Unless you pull your gun I don't see the big deal
Cedar Park Dad wrote: I can if they try a physical search. Thats going to get very bad very fast.
I think you're correct. If Mall Security tries to restrain you and you pull out a gun, I would expect things to get very bad very fast. The question I would expect to hear some time later is "At exactly what point did you begin to feel your life was in danger?"
Some may think I'm giving up my liberty to allow someone to look at my receipt and count items in my basket as I leave. To my thinking, the mall security people have better things to do like go after folks who are really stealing things, and the sooner I convince them I'm not the guy they're after the sooner we can all get about what we should be doing. A physical search of my car, I don't think so. A look at my receipt, not a problem for me. I don't ever see things escalating to a need for attempts at physical restraint in those circumstances.