Giant Eagle and the Second Amendment

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Giant Eagle and the Second Amendment

By Dave Ball
American Thinker
September 23rd. 2019

Beto O’Rourke and the Democrat Presidential candidates talk about big splashy plans to confiscate or license guns and deny services to gun and ammunition manufacturers. That is unlikely to happen.

What is more likely is a subtle, step by step non-legislative action that will ultimately lead to the nullification of the Second Amendment.

Giant Eagle has joined Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, Starbucks, Wendy’s, Target, and Wegman’s in requesting customers not to open carry a gun unless they are police officers.

Giant Eagle has 216 supermarkets, primarily in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania and Ohio are among the 37 states that allow open carry in one form or another.

What if a lot of big retailers, maybe all of them, stop selling ammo altogether and all of the sudden it gets difficult and expensive to find ammo to go to your favorite range? Pretty soon, you might have a gun but no ammo to shoot. Then, what if, over time, fewer and fewer stores sold guns? It’s their choice.

...Back to the open-carry situation.

When the general populace gets conditioned to more and more stores, and then other public places, banning open carry, even if few people open carry, the anti-gunners then move on to ban concealed carry in those same places and metal detectors will begin to appear. If you can’t carry in stores, where people spend a lot of their time, how long will it be before a lot of people start leaving the gun they now have no ammo to shoot at home?

Might this be the start of a long slow “boil the frog” process of weaning the public off the exercise of their Second Amendment rights?

...Incrementalism is the hallmark of liberal activists.

The Second Amendment is under the same type of incremental assault.

Stores ban open carry and then concealed carry. Then then stop selling guns and ammo. Then it’s okay to ban assault rifles by not selling them and then maybe by law. How about any other type of gun next?

As the number of guns in existence shrinks, Red Flag laws slowly cover more and more people until “in the interest of public safety” no one may own a gun. At this point, gun buybacks or similar programs become more possible. Then what do we have?

The Second Amendment has been de facto nullified and America has been partially disarmed. How big a step would it be, under some future administration, to actually scrap the Second Amendment?

At that point it is open season on the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments. When these fall, there is no need for the rest of our Constitution as we will be living in a totalitarian society. Maybe Second Amendment nullification all starts with not being able to open carry at your local Giant Eagle.

[wolfy]

Just think how fast those discriminating policies would change if every believer in the Bill of Rights stopped shopping (not 1 cent) at any businesses that do not support the Bill of Rights.
With a little ambition you can make your own ammunition. With a little more ambition you can make your own firearms.
Only a few generations ago, our forefathers could make nearly everything they needed with their bare hands.
Don't want to support the freedom crushing supermarket? Grow and raise your own food. It takes some work, but is rewarding and superior.

[langenc]

Just think how fast those discriminating policies would change if every believer in the Bill of Rights stopped shopping (not 1 cent) at any businesses that do not support the Bill of Rights.
With a little ambition you can make your own ammunition. With a little more ambition you can make your own firearms.
Only a few generations ago, our forefathers could make nearly everything they needed with their bare hands.
Don't want to support the freedom crushing supermarket? Grow and raise your own food. It takes some work, but is rewarding and superior.

Never happen to any great degree. Look at Levis & Ben and Jerrys ice cream. Two of the biggest and when you mentkon wearing Levis to a gun at the range they look at you lie you just smoked a pound of mj and say "Oh I like em." And then there is PayPal!!!

[oldmann1967]

Never happen to any great degree. Look at Levis & Ben and Jerrys ice cream. Two of the biggest and when you mentkon wearing Levis to a gun at the range they look at you lie you just smoked a pound of mj and say "Oh I like em." And then there is PayPal!!!

Try this again. I think I like it.