Open-carry fight moves to Kroger

As a note, the Kroger chain includes:

Combination Food & Drug Stores:

Baker’s Supermarkets (Omaha, Nebraska)
City Market (Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico)
Dillons Food Stores (Kansas, Missouri)
Fry’s Food & Drug (Arizona)
Gerbes Super Markets (central Missouri)
Harris Teeter (North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia)
Jay C (southern Indiana)
King Soopers (Colorado, Wyoming)
Kroger (Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia)

Owen’s (northeastern Indiana)
Pay Less Super Markets (central Indiana)
QFC (Oregon, Washington)
Ralphs (Southern California)
Scott’s (Fort Wayne, Indiana)
Smith’s (Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming)

Multi Department Stores:

Fred Meyer (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington)

Price Impact Stores:

Food 4 Less (Southern California; Las Vegas, Nevada; Chicago, Illinois; NW Indiana, and they have a former location in Allentown, Pennsylvania and Tahlequah, Oklahoma); there is also one location in Fremont Nebraska (Food 4 Less stores elsewhere are owned by other companies)

Foods Co. (Northern California)
Ruler Foods (Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky)

Marketplace Stores:

Dillons Marketplace
Fry’s Marketplace
King Soopers Marketplace
Kroger Marketplace
Smith’s Marketplace

Jewelry Stores:

Fred Meyer Jewelers
Barclay Jewelers
Fox’s Jewelers
Littman Jewelers

Convenience Stores:

Kwik Shop (Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Tennessee, Mississippi)
Loaf ‘N Jug (Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Wyoming)
Quik Stop (California, Nevada)
Smith’s Express (Utah)
Tom Thumb Food Stores (Alabama, Florida)
Turkey Hill Minit Markets (Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana)

Historically, concealed carry belied ill intent: honest men carried openly as being armed was presumed legitimate, while criminals would be the ones wishing to surprise others with firepower. Note too that at the time, anything really worth defending yourself with was not easily concealed. Licensing of concealed carry then amounted to letting the gov’t know that you had legitimate intentions, no longer presumably indicative of criminal intent _if_ you could show suitable paperwork on demand.

Years later, the licensing process has completely reversed the presumptions: concealed carry is the norm, to the point that society at large presumes _any_ visible gun is possessed for evil purposes.

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