Let's say I own a record store or comic book store or I'm a one-man-show making jewelry and any one of those businesses is renting space in a strip-mall. Let's say I was one of the first ones to set up in the then-new strip-mall, and several years later, after I had established my business in that location and was doing well, the property sells to a large real estate concern with corporate insurance mandates against renting to businesses that allow guns inside. Some corporate lackey shows up one day shortly thereafter and puts no firearms signs either on every businesses' door, or sinks 'em in the asphalt around the parking lot, and one of my customers comes along, walks up to the door or parks where he can see the sign nearest my business, and then plugs my business' name into your app. Who do I call to get my business name removed? Or does your "community" tell me I have to move from my established place of business to someplace that's not necessarily more friendly to my business, but more friendly to them, even though they knew I'd been friendly to them all along?
These kinds of apps are lawsuits waiting to happen. You have no idea the circumstances, constraints, considerations or personal preferences of the business owner that put that sign up, or had it put up against his wishes as the case may be, yet you're going to try to ruin his business to suit your circumstances, constraints, considerations and personal preferences better? If I download an app like this and see my business name and address show up as "anti-gun" or "anti-2nd-Amendment," I'm calling my lawyer and looking for who's responsible for that defamation. And if I can correlate the entry of my name in the "data" with a reduction in sales or traffic or whatever contributed to the success of my business before some yahoo decided to interfere in it, I'll squeeze every penny I can out of whoever was responsible for this kind of nonsense.
I'm as strict a "shall not be infringed" kinda guy as you'll find on this website, and I believe strongly in the most important part of the 2A, the period that immediately follows those words, but I'll be damned if I'll sit idly by while some do-gooder tries to drive traffic away from my business on the basis that a stranger tags me as unfriendly to the "community" that I've spent the most time and money in my life supporting, defending and advocating for. As strongly as I believe in the unambiguous nature of that period, you really need to try to look beyond it in this instance.
Blues
Thanks for the opinion. Although I think you misunderstand the purpose, as no places are marked "anti-gun". While I appreciate your interpretation of the Second Amendment and would tend to agree, the fact is in most states it is legal for a private property owner to deny individuals the right to carry while on their property. My intent is not to steer business from one place to another, but to maybe give someone who wants to comply with the law an idea of what to expect before they head out. In your example, the property owner decided to deny individuals the right to carry while on the property. If a customer, tenant or otherwise wants to comply with the law they wouldn't carry while on the property.
All I'm trying to do is facilitate a way for someone to gather that information before they get there.
Thanks again!
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