Proprietors don't usually post notices prohibiting weapons to be brought onto the
property because they are pacifistic. They mainly do it because they are advised
by lawyers that they risk being successfully sued if someone uses a weapon
unlawfully on the property and they didn't cover themselves by posting the notice.
Actually, the bulk of precedent in most states is against the proprietor being
held responsible for illegal acts of persons on the property, unless there is
evidence the illegal act was pursuant to the policy of the proprietor. That
creates an area of legal ambiguity that affords plaintiff lawyers an opening.
What is needed is clear precedent or legislation that holds proprietors harmless
for illegal acts of persons on their property for lack of a policy prohibiting
weapons, but which holds them liable for protecting visitors if they disarm
themselves under the terms of the notice and are thereby deprived of the ability
to defend themselves or others. That would put the burden of responsibility where
it belongs. One can expect that if this were established, legal counsel to
proprietors would advise them that the risks are greater from prohibiting weapons
than from not doing so.
-- Jon
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