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Lynyrd wrote:

Oldgringo wrote:Call me a chicken if you must, but I'm not interested in paying someone to argue, on my behalf, that the sign was invalid. If the place has an old or otherwise invalidly worded sign, that serves notice that "they" do not want/need my business/presence. I do ignore gun-buster signs....in Texas.

I ran into a gun buster sign while taking my wife to the doctor last weekend. Our regular GP office was closed, and we went to one of the clinics in our health care group. On the front door was a sign with a red circle drawn around a pistol with a red line through the circle. The test said "No Firearms." There was no other sign of any kind that I could see, and believe me I looked. My wife sort of rolled her eyes at me, and I went back to the truck. We had already had a discussion about this at home and she didn't want my to cause a scene at the doctor's office over their gun policy.

I was CC at the time, and since I wasn't the patient I didn't see how they would ever know. I also knew that there were no criminal penalties for carrying past such a sign, but to appease my better half I disarmed until we got back to the truck.

I've thought a lot about that the last few days, and I'm still not sure what I will do if a similar circumstance happens again. And it probably will with a visit to this very same clinic. I know that I will not inform them about the ineffectiveness of their silly little sign. The local people working in the clinic have nothing to do with policy, and couldn't change it if they wanted to.

I try to be respectful of other people and their wishes, but as I saw on a t-shirt recently, "My rights do not end where your feelings begin."