TAM, I'm surprised by your final sentence. Of course they'll come down. Just like all the "No Smoking" signs have.The Annoyed Man wrote: Not only that, but even if ALL license holders carried 24/7/365, and even if ALL license carriers completely boycotted ALL 06/07 posted businesses, we represent no more than 3% of the population at large, and we don't ALL shop at ALL the same businesses. I think that license holders vastly overestimate our collective purchasing power. A 3% downtick in a company's business isn't going to put that company into distress unless it is already on extremely shaky financial footing. Like someone said above, paraphrasing the attitude of businesses that post signage, "we don't care, because we don't have to". The only incentive they have to change is to come to the conclusion that every dog has its day in the son, and that it is generally unproductive to make permanent enemies of your business. But there is a distinct difference between behavior that is unproductive for the future, and behavior that is financially costly in the present. The fact is, business boycotts by license holders are like mosquitos, and will be largely ineffective.
If those posted business owners change their minds, it won't be because of boycotts by license holders; it will be because they've come to the conclusion after some longer elapsed period of time that there have been no bloodbaths and that they might as well open up their businesses to concealed carry. I seriously doubt that - once posted 30.07 - most businesses will take down their 30.07 signs.
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- Wed Jan 13, 2016 3:17 pm
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