Moms' Group Calls Out Kroger's Gun Policy In Unprecedented New Ad Campaign

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

You don't need a gun in the supermarket. Grow some effing balls and leave it at home. Imbeciles.

Word.

[Sousuke 1,214]

You don't need a gun in the supermarket. Grow some effing balls and leave it at home. Imbeciles.

You don't need to open carry a firearm in a supermarket i agree

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

To be fair I've seen some meat in Ralphs that probably needs shooting. Just to be sure.

[Curmudgeon 227]

That's the stupidest thing I have heard in a long time. Win respect.... WOW. Sounds like you need to drive around in a flashy car before anyone will take notice of you... When I CC no one knows it is on me..I don't want anyone to know. I have been to family gatherings and no one knew I was carrying. Gun owners don't treat their guns as play things, None that I know of.They shoot and they do shoot competition. None of this is a game as you believe. .. but I don't hang around the hood.. Perhaps they flash.and need a gun to prove their manhood. I cannot say. .. It is not done in the company I keep

For the record, as you seem to have completely misunderstood what I actually posted, I am not advocating carrying guns to earn respect, quite the opposite. What I said was there are gun owners who seem to believe that this is what happens when they carry a gun. You seem to be quite skeptical of that, but yet, the evidence out there is well, enormous. Every day, in every corner of America there are news stories of stupid accidents with guns that are precisely because of the large number of people who legally own and use guns without exercising any due diligence and part of their motivation is how they 'look' to others and this is nothing to do with people living in gangland, just regular people, in regular homes.

Still, things are looking up, you do not want guns to be considered as toys, and neither they should be. They are weapons, not ordinary household tools, weapons designed to maim and kill.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

For the record, as you seem to have completely misunderstood what I actually posted, I am not advocating carrying guns to earn respect, quite the opposite. What I said was there are gun owners who seem to believe that this is what happens when they carry a gun. You seem to be quite skeptical of that, but yet, the evidence out there is well, enormous. Every day, in every corner of America there are news stories of stupid accidents with guns that are precisely because of the large number of people who legally own and use guns without exercising any due diligence and part of their motivation is how they 'look' to others and this is nothing to do with people living in gangland, just regular people, in regular homes.

Still, things are looking up, you do not want guns to be considered as toys, and neither they should be. They are weapons, not ordinary household tools, weapons designed to maim and kill.

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Gotta love the guy with the shirt off, not desirable. Nor is shopping next to someone pulling their grocery cart from a tank.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

For the record, as you seem to have completely misunderstood what I actually posted, I am not advocating carrying guns to earn respect, quite the opposite. What I said was there are gun owners who seem to believe that this is what happens when they carry a gun. You seem to be quite skeptical of that, but yet, the evidence out there is well, enormous. Every day, in every corner of America there are news stories of stupid accidents with guns that are precisely because of the large number of people who legally own and use guns without exercising any due diligence and part of their motivation is how they 'look' to others and this is nothing to do with people living in gangland, just regular people, in regular homes.

Still, things are looking up, you do not want guns to be considered as toys, and neither they should be. They are weapons, not ordinary household tools, weapons designed to maim and kill.

Just like cars and steak knives. If you ask the crowd around here, that is...

[eieio 1,594]

The moms are taking the gun control fight to Kroger's backyard.

On Thursday, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a gun control group backed by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's considerable financial resources, will blanket half a dozen newspapers with ads meant to pressure the grocery giant to stop allowing customers to openly carry firearms in its stores. The ads will be displayed on the newspapers' websites as well as on a billboard in Cincinnati, where Kroger's corporate headquarters is based, according to the group.

The whole thing is stupid. If you don't like their policy....shop somewhere else.

I think the open carry policy is a good thing, but it helps in other ways. Not much use to bring a gun shopping. I would consider someone who open carries a gun grocery shopping as "retarded" and likely to be a danger to all.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Here's the tagline for their marketing campaign:

"Leave the piece, you tosspiece"

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Sometimes I feel guilty bringing an outside beverage with me into Kroger but I do it anyway.

I don't like open carry, but I was in Kroger today getting the final Pasalubong. I always slip my little Tarus .380 in my pocket. The Bag boys they employ are a surly lot

Speaking of a chain on the down hill run. Their pharmacy is johnny on it, but the rest of the store sucks. Their meat section now is all pre packaged #######, and I don't know how they find the most customer un friendly zombied no personality twits to work in their stores. I think they are competing with Wal*mart to see who sucks worse.

Publix however. They run a store like pro's. Clean courtesy friendly outgoing, although it costs a bit more

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

That's the stupidest thing I have heard in a long time. Win respect.... WOW. Sounds like you need to drive around in a flashy car before anyone will take notice of you... When I CC no one knows it is on me..I don't want anyone to know. I have been to family gatherings and no one knew I was carrying. Gun owners don't treat their guns as play things, None that I know of.They shoot and they do shoot competition. None of this is a game as you believe. .. but I don't hang around the hood.. Perhaps they flash.and need a gun to prove their manhood. I cannot say. .. It is not done in the company I keep

I don't like open carry. That is for cops. I think it just begs for problems. Conceal your weapon. I had on a pair of shorts and a t shirt, with sneakers today . Noone would think I am carrying. Yet I was. My little Tarus .380 glides right into the pocket.

Of course I was in the good section of town, so to speak. Sometimes when I am really danger close with the hood, I step it up a tad, to a glock 27 or both

Word.

we are not all stealth Ninja's like you and your poster boy buddy

[GandD 5,966]

I don't like open carry, but I was in Kroger today getting the final Pasalubong. I always slip my little Tarus .380 in my pocket. The Bag boys they employ are a surly lot

Speaking of a chain on the down hill run. Their pharmacy is johnny on it, but the rest of the store sucks. Their meat section now is all pre packaged #######, and I don't know how they find the most customer un friendly zombied no personality twits to work in their stores. I think they are competing with Wal*mart to see who sucks worse.

Publix however. They run a store like pro's. Clean courtesy friendly outgoing, although it costs a bit more

It's the union yo

The Kroger here are actually really nice. All newly remodeled and the folks working there, minus the younguns' are pretty good. We even have a guy that will cut ribeye into bulgogi for us.

[Curmudgeon 227]

I don't like open carry. That is for cops. I think it just begs for problems. Conceal your weapon. I had on a pair of shorts and a t shirt, with sneakers today . Noone would think I am carrying. Yet I was. My little Tarus .380 glides right into the pocket.

Of course I was in the good section of town, so to speak. Sometimes when I am really danger close with the hood, I step it up a tad, to a glock 27 or both

we are not all stealth Ninja's like you and your poster boy buddy

What part of Somalia do you live in?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

What part of Somalia do you live in?

Carrying two pistols in the hood. Sounds like his life is a John Woo film.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

That's the stupidest thing I have heard in a long time. Win respect.... WOW. Sounds like you need to drive around in a flashy car before anyone will take notice of you... When I CC no one knows it is on me..I don't want anyone to know. I have been to family gatherings and no one knew I was carrying. Gun owners don't treat their guns as play things, None that I know of.They shoot and they do shoot competition. None of this is a game as you believe. .. but I don't hang around the hood.. Perhaps they flash.and need a gun to prove their manhood. I cannot say. .. It is not done in the company I keep

Why would you ever need to bring a gun to a family gathering?

[Karee 4,191]

Why would you ever need to bring a gun to a family gathering?

You should meet some of my extended family.