from the lunatic who's come to kill as many people as possible before he kills himself, leaving is the only rational response to that gunny who feels undressed and vulnerable without that Big Ugly Gun slung across his back.

Packing heavy weaponry doesn't belong in J C Penney's because one is very unlikely to be involved in a firefight over the sock display. The same goes for other retail, restaurant and public gathering places.

Some of the open-carry nuts I've seen online aren't exactly using utmost caution to keep from waving the barrel all over the damned place.

arguments out of the sky - put a bullet right into the gun lover arguments.

He is calmly debating the theoretical underpinnings. Something I'd bet most have not been exposed to.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Meanwhile, I'm lucky and grateful to be living in a sane part of the country.
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Just leaving without giving the proprietor/manager the opportunity to correct the problem is unethical, IMHO.

Only if you loudly state, as you are leaving, that you no longer feel safe because of the artillery in the room, are you acting in a completely ethical way. Inviting any staff members, who feel equally unsafe, to join you in leaving might be an even more effective way of making your point. IMHO Federal law requires a safe place to work and if guns are brought in, it is no longer safe and if I were a server or sales associate, I would welcome the cover provided by a similarly disquieted customer to get out.

If the manager follows you out the door offering to box up your food and bring it out, I think you have an obligation to pay up (although the tip I leave might be meager to say the least).

Something, anything to let them know why.

so will have to watch later. But I will tell you how I will respond- I will turn and walk in the opposite direction. If it is at a business, I will call the manager when I get home and tell him/her why I didn't spend money there.

and laugh very loud.

Hands down the smartest professor I ever encountered at CSU Fresno.
He stayed at Fresno State only briefly (2000).
The school's loss.

Money talks- and I might add; if these freaks think they have the freedom to carry a gun into a public restaurant then you can

DINE NAKED