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Sports Coach,

Is the voice of reason.

I hope you that advocate the attitude of: Oh yeah, I'll show you...with OCing or carrying an AR/shotgun/or some other long gun where unwelcome isn't going to change the minds of anti's. You won't be received positively. You'll be thought of as crazies...

Acting ludicrously childish by OCing or carrying into places of business with long guns will not be a convincing argument...you simply come across as nutty.

Try to understand.

Belligerence has little credible affect...

Not giving them your business has far more effect.

Carry past a 30.06 sign (without an accompanying 30.07) by open carrying has been discussed here frequently.

Anyone thinking to do so is technically correct, but a waste of time as of course a business posted 30.06 will either immediately ask you to leave or if they feel intimidated call the police and let them tell you to leave with what may turn out to be a very unpleasant experience...

Honestly, you're not going to cause any comeuppance to any 30.06 posted business by OCing.

No, I don't like it when businesses post 30.06 either, but I'm not going to tilt at wind mills either...discretion is your friend.

A simple avoidance of 30.06 posted businesses is pretty easy...

Rotor,

Great post!

If you have a chance to donate where you're disarmed vs another that doesn't require disarming - which would you choose to donate to?

I too used to donate blood. Had done it a number of times. No problem whatsoever.

Just because it seemed like an easy way to do good.

Until one day, after donating blood and eating the cookie and drinking the juice, I got on an elevator to go to the floor I worked on (in what used to be called the TCT building in downtown Houston) and bam - I almost fainted in the elevator.

It was just me and a women in high heels in the elevator. I saw her looking at me with alarm. I must've looked very pale, sweaty and not right. I thought, if I pass out she's going to panic and stomp all over me in those high heels. She looked the very nervous type, especially in an elevator with only one other person, a man, albeit in a nice suit and tie... I could envision myself crashing to the floor and her freaking out, doing some sort of panic dance...all over me.

With bowing my head as much as I could without going below my knees I hung on for dear life. I didn't pass out, but came so close it was a wonder I managed not to...

Never donated again.

Yeah sure, if my wife needed my blood or other loved ones, I'd do it, but not just in general anymore.

If some blood outfit put up a 30.06 sign, no way I'd donate at their place until I found one that didn't insist I disarm.

Blatant guilt tripping....

Call the man and explain unless the sign come down you'll be donating and saving lives elsewhere.