Exercise your property rights to bar concealed carry,

Despite what the gunloon would like to think, it's fairly easy to spot someone carrying a concealed handgun. First off, they are going to be wearing loose clothing so that they don't "print" too much ("printing" is where you can see the firearm, which is next to impossible to totally eliminate). People who carry concealed firearms dress around their guns with rare exceptions. Also, most people who carry keep their weapon on their waist, usually on the side of their dominant hand.

Police mention the following behavioural traits as indicators that someone is armed. Things like:

• frequently touching the firearm for reassurance,
• adjusting the weapon for comfort, or because it has moved out of place,
• an unusual walk or gait, and
• blading their weapon side away from you, similar to the “interview stance.”

I've included this handy chart as a beginning step in to how to spot someone who may be carrying. You should ask if you believe that someone is carrying on your property: whether home or business.

The thing is that the property owner has every right to preclude people from carrying weapons onto their property. You have the right to know since that can bring you legal liability as the property owner in some jurisdictions. You are well within your right as a property owner to exclude someone from bringing a firearm onto your property without your permission.

Of course, think if every body called the cops because they suspected someone was carrying on their property--you get the idea why this idiotic idea has been allowed to flourish.

In fact, it's rude for someone to carry a concealed handgun onto another's property, whether a business or personal residence. After all, how do they feel if someone brings a gun onto their property? Especially if the person carrying may have unlawful intent.

I should add that it is probably more frightening to these people that they could be spotted "packing heat" since they like to believe they are inconspicuous. It's probably more frightening and disconcerting to them than having someone grab their gun from them.

Nothing would bother them more than the question "do you have a handgun on you?"

See also:

• Spotting An Armed Subject
• Is He Carrying a Gun?: More on Spotting an Armed Suspect
• Dead Right: Recognizing Traits of Armed Individuals

Killing Grounds

Carcasses lay on the ground at the Muskingum County Animal Farm on Wednesday in Zanesville, Ohio. Sheriff's deputies shot 48 animals, including 18 rare Bengal tigers and 17 lions, after Terry Thompson, owner of the private Muskingum County Animal Farm threw their cages open Tuesday and then committed suicide.  Photo from AP

Laissez-faire capitalism means that there should be nothing that interferes with buying and selling and making money.  Not regulation, not enforcement of any kind; everything is supposedly fixed by the invisible hand of the market place. 

Bullshit.  We need regulation and enforcement of fraud in all markets, but most of all in the dark markets that are as opposite of transparent as it is possible to be, and where there is no level playing field for the participants, and where some are predators on others.

The trade and ownership of exotic animals is another are of commerce that should be strictly regulated and only narrowly allowed, with more regard for the wellfare of the animals than greedy profits or for the supposed property rights of the irresponsible owner.  The choices of these people, of this man who SHOT HIMSELF with a firearm that was arguably originally LEGAL, endangered others, and no invisible hand of the market fixed this.  The intervention of paid union-member government employees had to fix this.

Those who claim property rights are next to godliness, those who believe government should be smaller, those who believe unions are thugs do not appreciate or acknowledge the importance of those people and the relative right of property coming second to the right for other people to be safe.

I hate to find myself anywhere near, much less on the same side, as that jerk Wayne Pacelle or the dangerous extremists of PETA.  But they are perfectly correct that the ownership of exotic animals poses an unacceptable risk to too many people, as well as not being good or healthy for the animals either.

From MSNBC.com:

Ohio owner of exotic animals was deep in debt

Sheriff says an animal bit the owner after he shot himself

"Surely, after this latest incident, enough blood has been shed for the state to take action," the group said in a statement.
Ohio has some of the nation's weakest restrictions on exotic pets and among the highest number of injuries and deaths caused by them.
This article contains reporting from The Associated Press, NBC News and msnbc.com staff.