CVS, Wegmans, Walgreens
Ask Customers Not to Bring
Firearms into Stores
American Greatness,
by
Liz Sheld
Original Article
Posted By: M2,
9/6/2019 9:23:22 AM
If someone is prepared to slaughter 10, 20 or more innocent civilians shopping in a drug store, do you think they are inclined to respect the “wishes” of a retail outlet that doesn’t want firearms in its establishment? CVS and Walgreens think so.
CVS and Walgreens joined the woke corporation crowd of Walmart and Kroger and announce they request customers do not bring firearms into their stores.
“We support the efforts of other individuals and groups working to prevent gun violence, and continually review our policies and procedures to ensure our stores remain a safe environment,” CVS said in its statement. “We join a growing chorus of
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 9/6/2019 9:30:56 AM (No. 172963)
Okay, then. I’ll just carry concealed, like I always have.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
valinva 9/6/2019 9:32:04 AM (No. 172966)
"Three More Retailers Identify Their Stores as Easy Targets for Mass Shooters". There I fixed the headline for you.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
rabblerouser 9/6/2019 9:37:52 AM (No. 172975)
All this B.S. is about is the corporations trying to legally cover their a@#$% from being sued when a shooting is carried out on their property. The details do not matter in a lawsuit. Your life doesn't matter to them enough to even provide armed security in their stores in exchange for their B.S. policy. So, each of us will have to decide whether or not to continue to patronize these places.
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So what? Private policy. They don't want firearms in their establishment. Don't like it, don't patronize them...then it's a win-win, isn't it?
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Wegmans will lose lots of customers in Virginia. When we lived there until three years ago, many customers carried.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Krause 9/6/2019 9:47:35 AM (No. 172993)
So, a crazy person who wants to shoot up a store will say to himself....'well, I can't shoot up that store because I can't take a gun in there?'
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 9/6/2019 9:49:45 AM (No. 172997)
Despise the ghetto term "woke."
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
HotRod 9/6/2019 9:49:54 AM (No. 172998)
I'm sure that good, law-abiding people will respect their request, or shop elsewhere, but what about criminals? When some crazy person, who doesn't care what corporate HQ says, decides to shoot up a store, what will corporate management say? I'm sure they will issue all the right condolences and sorrow for the victims, and call for gun control!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
janjan 9/6/2019 9:53:54 AM (No. 173004)
Are these companies politely asking crazed shooters and mass murderers to kindly leave their guns outside? After all, it’s so unfair to the other shoppers who have no way to defend themselves. There is no limit to the capacity for stupidity.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Teufelshunde 9/6/2019 9:59:04 AM (No. 173015)
They don't know what they can't see.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
mc squared 9/6/2019 10:11:45 AM (No. 173027)
Wouldn't have been more even handed if they just prohibited mass shootings in their stores?
The sign on the front door could be a typical red circle around silhouettes of running people with a gun held on them and a line through it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
LadyHen 9/6/2019 10:41:27 AM (No. 173043)
The problem is this "get woke" strategy is contagious and once the intellectual lightweights in Hollywood give their fanatical, hysterical female pink hat zombies their marching orders, they mindlessly harangue every retailer into making these irresponsible policies.
And from what I read CVS and Walgreens have eliminated ALL carry in their stores. So no open or CC.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
SALady 9/6/2019 10:48:50 AM (No. 173054)
In Texas, if they really mean this, have the cajones to put up 20.06 and 20.07 posters. That would make it illegal to carry weapons in their stores.
But I bet they are just "all talk" to try to appease the rabid fascist gun grabbers, but won't actually ban guns in their stores until the emotional wave passes and people go back to their normal lives!!!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
AltaD 9/6/2019 11:13:02 AM (No. 173079)
I'm not a big fan of Amazon (well, the company's owner) but Walmart and others keep giving me good reasons to increase my online shopping.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
hershey 9/6/2019 11:39:51 AM (No. 173109)
It may be an opening salvo by gun controllers, BUT, the stores are asking to not 'open carry'....nothing was said about concealed carry...get your facts straight before you have a heart attack...and it turns me off to see some dimwit with a rifle slung over his shoulder in a store...there is no need for that, 'just because I can'.....
Open carry is a bit 'in your face' and could potentially 'turn off' some people....
That being said, I always carry concealed....
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I thought they were just asking us to not open carry. Am I missing something?
Anyway, concealed means nobody knows. If I am "outed" at one of these places I will have two items on my to-do list. The first is to make sure I conceal better in the future. The second is to not go into that store again. And my money won't go in their either.
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Oops, "there".
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
droopydog 9/6/2019 12:28:43 PM (No. 173157)
Here's an idea: how about if I don't come into your store at all?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
udanja99 9/6/2019 1:17:42 PM (No. 173187)
I’m already ticked at CVS because they closed all their stores here in the Charleston area two days before hurricane Dorian slid by. The weather was fine on Tuesday and Wednesday but they were all closed - completely unnecessary and irresponsible. And now this.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Smart11344 9/6/2019 1:43:31 PM (No. 173203)
My best friend, of 40 years, carries a concealed pistol. He also works for the sheriff's dept. Not as a deputy, but as an evidence specialist.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
LadyHen 9/6/2019 2:04:54 PM (No. 173218)
fta: "We support the efforts of other individuals and groups working to prevent gun violence, and continually review our policies and procedures to ensure our stores remain a safe environment,” CVS said in its statement. “We join a growing chorus of businesses in requesting that our customers, other than authorized law enforcement personnel, do not bring firearms into our stores.”"
CVS' statement sounds like a no gun period "request" to me. Everyone else seems to be drawing the line at no open carry but cc is fine. In open carry states (I do not live in one so I do not know), is it legal to make the distinction?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
anniebc 9/6/2019 7:42:41 PM (No. 173411)
These robber barons are getting on my nerves with this foolishness.
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Some years back I went to a Walgreen's near Tiger Woods former home because I had to find a prescribed drug no one seemed to have. A guy came in looking around that gave me the creeps. I left, but soon realized I left my insurance card there. By the time I got back to the store, yellow tape was up because he robbed the store. Maybe more should carry.
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