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If any employee asks someone open carrying to leave, there are at least two possible scenarios. One, the person carrying is polite, calm, and apologizes for not knowing it was not allowed and leaves with dignity and class. The other scenario is more like OCT in which the person carrying demands to know if the employee is the boss or the owner and begins to quote the law or the constitution to the employee or threatens to never spend a dime there again. I can not see anyone drawing a good impression of us from that or having the boss be persuaded its ok to open carry. Employees and onlookers are more likely to retain a positive impression in the first scenario and won't have a story for the manager about some jerk with a gun. Like it or not, there is a big difference to many people between open and concealed carry and forcing things has already caused OCT to be held in contempt even by other gun owners. As someone already said, I prefer not to spend my money where there are 30.06 signs but if a business posts only a 30.07 sign, I would still shop there. I worked for 11 years for a dentist who was a wonderful person but he and most of his patients would have had kittens to see an openly visible handgun in the business. It was very effective to carry discretely on body and smile when patients discussed their terrors over guns while one was less than 2 feet away. They were happy. I was happy...and employed.

I am just hoping everyone who is super eager to carry openly exercise a little sensitivity or we may well see a lot of new signage. Too many people have been led by the media to think we are all the same as OCT and the like. It was videos of those wanna be's that were put on the screen just about every time open carry was covered. Let's try our best to "look" and behave a lot better than that to people who seriously may feel afraid or offended at first. Heck, I already have a friend asking me where he can get 30.07 signs for his business. He has a CHL and is not opposed to the open carry law but he is opposed to having to deal with his customer's views on it.