Many are very good with guns. Many are not. Just like private citizens. Just because someone is a cop doesn't make them an expert at guns, and just because someone isn't a cop doesn't make them incompetent with guns.
then why are business owners and patrons calling the police, and complaining when seeing openly armed folks in their presence????
Because they are arrogant idiots that don't believe their patrons have a Right to self defense. But this is a small minority. Most business owners don't call 911 when someone is openly carrying, and many of those that have posted "no guns" signs have wound up taking them down after a few protests.
Care to address the insurance issue???
My Right to self defense trumps what some beancounter thinks "policy" should be. Period.
If insurance companies ran things, guns, cars, ice cream, and sex would be banned. So their opinion really doesn't carry much weight with me.
guess you never owned a business, try learning about liability
I'd be more concerned about liability when a criminal comes in and massacres unarmed citizens, than I would be about Americans peaceably and openly carrying firearms.
Rest assured if there were two malls in town, one allowing the open carry of loaded weapons by idiot gun slingers, the other banning weapons, guess which mall 99% of parents would NOT allow their children to shop at?
And guess which one Al Queda would hit.
If there were a mall that "allowed" open carry, I'd definately shop there since all the stinking liberals would avoid it, and all my "gun nut" buddies would be there.
Once a few thugs robbed the "no guns" mall, I think most parents would rather see their kids at the mall where open carry was "allowed".