I was thinking about this "no carry" location deal and decided to add to this thread, even thought it has been dormant for a while. I think that it should be mandatory for any building, business, office, or property, to have a clear visable sign prominently posted if there are no guns or weapons allowed. I mean any place. They don't have any problem putting "no smoking" or "no service without shirt or shoes", or"no parking" signs up. It seems some places have a "secret policy" about firearms. They don't post any policy, but if you are caught or suspected of carrying they want to make an issue of it.
I think the law should be, either post it or forget about it. No prominent visable sign, no foul.
I agree... but I'm also glad this isn't the law here in Delaware.
CCDW permit holders fly almost completely under the radar here. Even businesses who prominently post "NO GUNS" signs in other states (e.g., Costco) don't bother posting such signs in Delaware because
they don't even realize that we exist. The few signs that are posted don't have the force of law: even if there was a huge sign banning firearms in a store, all they could do is ask us to leave. My wife and I cheerfully ignore those sneaky little "secret policies" and we know we're not breaking the law.
Imagine what would happen if we tried to pass such a law, and the News-Urinal wrote up a huge front-page story, and it created a big public discussion... the Philly TV stations would pick it up, and stir up a hornet's nest.
The law would pass ...and we would suddenly be legally barred from --
and criminally liable for -- carrying in the mall, the movie theater, half the restaurants in the state, Costco, BJ's, ShopRite...
More and more places would become off-limits to us every day, as fast as they could print the signs.
Right now, there's a sneaky little "no guns" sign at the Regal cinema, and that almost invisible "Code of Conduct" at the Christiana Mall, and we have the right to carry at those places anyway.
If we tried to pass the law you propose -- which is a perfectly sensible and reasonable law, I agree -- it would only reduce our rights.