Will Baude

Right.

And I think to add that this could be true, not just because property owners don't care, but because of sort of the social dynamics around guns, especially in a state like Hawaii, where there isn't a strong gun culture and a lot of people don't like guns.

Like you might well have somebody who runs a coffee shop in Hawaii whose view is, I'm

I don't really care, man.

You want to have a gun?

You aren't bothering anybody.

Like it's fine.

I'm not going to put up a no gun sign.

But if he has to put up a gun sign, suddenly like the anti-gun people are going to get upset about it and they're going to complain to him about it.

And then he doesn't want that either.

And so you can imagine that like actually requiring property owners to take a stand on a culturally contentious issue in a place where gun rights are the minority position, like, you know, pressures it.

Um,

In the same way that would be true of a lot of minority viewpoints, you know, minority political views.

I don't know if that's the design of the law.

The defenders of the law might also just say, look, we took a poll and most people don't want guns on their property.

So the default rule should be the thing that matches most people's preferences.

And in Hawaii, people don't like guns and they don't want guns around.

And so, sure, if you want to, you can opt in.

But the default rule should be the thing that is the default for most people.

Right.