You WILL be a gun owner
by digby
You have to hand it to the right wing. They never, ever back off. While the feds are using every ounce of muscle they have to get a tepid background check bill passed, in the states they're proposing laws to coerce people to allow guns in their places of business:
A bill introduced by Missouri state Rep. Caleb Jones (R) would subject business owners who post “no guns” signs to potentially costly lawsuits, while immunizing businesses that allow guns from suits resulting from those guns:
1. Any private business that displays signage which prohibits public invitees, business visitors, and employees from carrying a concealed weapon on the premises owned or occupied by such private business shall be liable for any injury or damages incurred by such public invitees, business visitors, and employees as a result of such prohibition if such public invitee, business visitor, or employee establishes by a preponderance of evidence that having access to a firearm may have prevented his or her injury or damage.
2. Any private business that does not prohibit public invitees, business visitors, and employees from carrying a concealed weapon on the premises owned or occupied by such private business shall be immune from any liability arising from its decision to permit concealed weapons to be carried on business premises.
Basically, any yahoo who says he wouldn't have lost his front teeth in a drunken barfight if he could have opened fire on everybody in the room now has standing to sue the bar owner for not allowing him to pack heat inside his establishment.
I'm going to guess that we're going to see more of these mandatory gun ownership laws crop up all over the country:
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