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Originally Posted by Fallguy
A property owner can be held liable if there is a "known danger" and they don't do anything to protect you.
There is a TN case on this that I don't have the ability to link to at the moment.
But I agree that no property owner has a duty to protect you from any general danger. Also if you enter a posted establisment and disarm on your own accord you have no standing, because you did not have to go in.
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Best known as the "feets don't fail me now" option! If you already know it is a no gun zone and you enter unarmed you have indicated that you accept the consequences. If you can't accept the consequences, don't enter! I make that decision from time to time (depends on how good the food is or who I am with at the time) but I do it knowing that
I am setting
myself up for the risk.
I have also learned with age that I cannot have my own way all of the time.This is the big trap of individual rights: they invariably conflict with somebody else's rights. As a school teacher (retired now) I had to surrender almost every right I had to defend and uphold the students' rights. It went with the territory. As a Marine for 30 years, I did give up just about every right I had to protect other people's rights. We do have to live together, discretion is not cowardice, it is just being careful. I
CC all of the time and I obey the law if it tells me that I have to go somewhere unarmed. I don't like it but I follow the law. I have to weigh every day whether having a gun on me at that moment is more important than getting something done. Mailing a package to my grandchildren is usually going to be more important to me than whether or not the 642 is in my pocket at that moment! I don't expect the Post Office to have a squad of Marines there to guard me while I mail the package!
Hey life's a bitch, sometimes you have to let the other kids play too, live with it.