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In reply to the discussion: (Amazing) Man shops at Utah JCPenney while carrying assault rifle [View all]defacto7
(13,485 posts)You are right, not on a regular basis. But it does happen and probably more than anywhere else. As a matter of fact, this same guy has done this on other occasions. The police know who he is and he's been in the papers before. No one will stop him whether it's intimidating or not. The store did not ask him to leave this time and they didn't the other times.
This is Utah and guns rule. Add to that, the road rage here is very high. The fear gauge is also on the high side. People flout their guns and pack them everywhere including mothers at schools who carry them in their bag. There is this undertone of suspicion and unfriendliness that is the main reason I hate living here. When the time is appropriate, I'm out of here. The dismal gray dysfunctional, over religious, self aggrandizing attitude is like social vampire-ism.