Missouri businesses are mixed about whether or not to ban customers who carry concealed firearms, reports the Washington Missourian. The responses from businesses ranged to the inane, 'Banning guns will keep us safe' attitude, to the typical, 'What's the big deal?' response. What bugs me most was the response from Ruthie Holdmeyer of the Sensa Boutique in Downtown Washington. Ruthie has no plans to ban concealed firearms among customers or employees, but adds:

"I wouldn't hire someone who wants to carry a concealed gun," she said. "We don't have employees like that to make me worry about it."

To that, I respond "I am not an animal! I am a human being!" All sorts of people carry concealed firearms. We are not all deranged paranoid gun nuts, and I find the anti-gun bigotry to be offensive.