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Originally Posted by GirlySports
That's different. You can't carry a gun openly into a Walmart so that would cause alarm. Like you have to wear shoes.
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Wal-mart didn't enact that rule until a month after that, so at the time he was allowed to open carry in a Wal-Mart (Springfield arrest was in August 2019, open carry rule changed in September). The guy who did the El Paso shooting was legally exercising his rights until the moment he pulled the trigger as well. No one could have disarmed him and he would have been justified in killing anyone who tried.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...on-ncna1054396
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Walmart’s decision, though, makes sense. On August 3, a mass shooting in Walmart’s El Paso store killed 22 and wounded 24 more, and that came just days after a disgruntled employee murdered two co-workers and attempted to murder a police officer in a Mississippi store. Since those events and the national outcry that followed — but before the bans — at least one open-carry enthusiast in Missouri did what he called a “social experiment” testing Walmart’s dedication to the right to keep and bear arms, causing a panic; other people made threats leading to panicked evacuations that alarmed their staff and their customers, who feared they might be the next Americans to die in a mass shooting.
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