Open Carry In Publix Grocery Store In Gastonia North Carolina
BY Herschel Smith
7 years, 3 months ago
So I was shopping in Publix grocery store this weekend, and ask a manager about their policy on open carry. I thought I had seen folks engaging in open carry there, but I told the manager that I knew businesses can have their own policies, which I support, and I didn’t want this to be awkward for them if I come back openly carrying.
He informed me that he has a number of customers who open carry, and Publix follows the laws of the state. There is no problem with it at that store. I appreciate their stand on the issue, and I will certainly reward them by continuing to shop there.
In case we’ve never discussed this before (and I think we have), I open carry because I hate concealed carry and told the manager so. But there is a larger and more important reason. I open carry “For the peace, good and dignity of the country and the welfare of its people.” I owe that expression to Jeremy Bryant.
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On September 3, 2017 at 10:51 pm, James said:
Good on you. Tnx Hershel.
On September 7, 2017 at 10:00 am, Longbow said:
I open carry because I can’t stomach the idea of begging the State’s permission to do something i have a natural RIGHT to do.
On September 7, 2017 at 4:37 pm, The Records Keeper said:
“No state shall convert a liberty into a license and charge therefore”
(Murdock v. Pennsylvania, 319 U.S. 105, 1943).
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“If the State converts a right (liberty) into a privilege, the citizen can ignore the license and fee and engage in the right (liberty) with impunity”
(Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham, Alabama, 373 U.S. 262, 1963.
No need to beg. Just do it.
On September 8, 2017 at 10:05 am, Herschel Smith said:
@Records,
No. It isn’t begging to show respect another’s property rights. I don’t just go into another man’s home carrying a weapon, and neither can I do it (legally or morally) on to property that isn’t my own. A grocery store owned by a company is their property, not mine. In this case, we came to an amicable agreement.
A sidewalk or street is another story.